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Middle-class young professionals strategically use housing precarity, like in co-living, as an asset for navigating insecure tech careers. This "privileged precarity" contrasts with its oppressive experience for marginalized groups, highlighting social stratification.

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  • Housing and labor market precarity disproportionately affect young professionals.
  • Co-living schemes offer shared housing with temporary rental contracts.
  • The knowledge economy is characterized by hyper-competition and job insecurity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the interrelationship between housing and labor market precarity.
  • To explore how residential precarity is leveraged by middle-class young professionals.
  • To introduce and interrogate the concept of "privileged precarity".

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative interviews with residents of co-living schemes.
  • Analysis of housing and labor market dynamics.
  • Conceptual development of "privileged precarity".

Main Results:

  • Co-living's precarious tenure enabled participants to synchronize with insecure tech careers.
  • Participants strategically leveraged residential precarity as an asset.
  • "Privileged precarity" allows the middle class to harness insecurity as a resource, unlike marginalized groups.

Conclusions:

  • "Privileged precarity" highlights socially stratifying potentials of housing and labor market dynamics.
  • The concept offers insights into contradictory subjectivities within the knowledge economy.
  • Further research is needed on the applicability to other social inequalities.