{"id":536926,"date":"2026-04-18T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536926\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:10:07","slug":"one-in-three-young-men-now-live-with-their-parents-ons-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536926\/","title":{"rendered":"One in three young men now live with their parents, ONS data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nathan, 24, lives with his dad in a council house just outside of Manchester. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He works night shifts cleaning and maintaining trains and says he has managed to build up a savings pot of \u00a350,000 by not moving out of the family home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you are lucky enough to live with a mum, dad or grandparent who doesn&#8217;t charge you much rent, then you can build up money even on the minimum wage,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says he cooks chillis and stews to take to work, avoids impulse purchases and tries to keep spending on a night out below \u00a320.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not that interested in getting a flashy car, spending it all on alcohol, or getting some \u00a3500 trainers,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My dad managed to buy a house at 21, but that was just how it was back then.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan, 24, lives with his dad in a council house just outside of Manchester. He works night shifts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-536926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}