Julie Rugg is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York.

• 1 Setting the context: young people, housing and social policy 2 Young adults and owner occupation: a changing goal? 3 Young single people and access to social housing 4 The use and ‘abuse’ of private renting and help with rental costs 5 Students and housing: a testing time? 6 ‘I thought it would be easier’: the early housing careers of young people leaving care 7 Youth homelessness 8 Housing and support services for young people 9 Housing and young single parent families 10 No cardboard boxes, so no problem? Young people and housing in rural areas 11 Young adults living in the parental home: the implications of extended youth transitions for housing and social policy.