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This paper explores housing trajectories of young adults and practices ~of intergenerational support in Romania drawing on narratives ~of a group of people aged 25–39 living (quasi-) autonomously in ~Bucharest, and those of kin that support them. It describes three ~housing arrangements in which family (parental) resources and ~property play an important role, and argues that in this context of high ~interdependence, unequal relationships develop between parents ~and adult children marked by professed entitlement on the part of ~children and controlling generosity on the part of parents. It shows ~how interdependent practices of homemaking and material support ~combine to shape housing trajectories and defi ne the boundaries of ~ownership over homes that are shared, gifted or given in use within ~kin networks, sheltering young adults from the vagaries of the market.