‘Hotel of mum and dad’ in UK at its fullest in two decades, study finds

Young men are more likely to live with their parents than young women, although researchers could offer no explanation for this. Photograph: Pikselstock/Alamy

The “hotel of mum and dad” is the busiest it has been for two decades as an increasing number of young adults in the UK choose – or are forced by low wages and rising rents – to live with their parents, research has found.

The prohibitive cost of renting, let alone buying, a home explains why more twenty- and thirtysomethings are “co-residing” with family at an age when their parents would have been living independently, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.