At Home
Financial insecurity and extended adolescence in the 2010s
Home sweet home.
Faced with a crumbling job market, government austerity, and rising inflation - many 20-somethings in the 2010s opted to delay moving out of their family home or were forced to return.
In 2010 I found myself between jobs. In my mid-twenties with nowhere to go I returned to my hometown of Edmonton, Alberta and spent the summer living with my parents and working as a labourer. While there I visited old friends and discovered I was far from alone.
Often occupying the same room they had lived in since childhood, my friends confided in me that the feelings of arrested development were often suffocating. Yet staying At Home made financial sense, and still does.
More than a decade later and the challenges of sky high rent, staggering student loan debt, and stagnant wages have not abated and while the people I photographed in 2010 have since moved out, a whole new generation is stuck in their own extended adolescence.
