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Abstract

The current demographic situation is such that young people are becoming a dwindling minority of the population. It is all the more important to study young people’s ideas about the future, especially in such an important issue as the organisation of personal housing. The article shows the results of a frequency content analysis of the statements of a focus group of students from one of Novosibirsk universities on the topic of their housing. The texts include two arrays. One represents essays written in free form by the focus group participants. The second array was obtained in the course of discussing the topic at a round table. The content analysis was conducted using the author’s programme measuring the presence of the main groups of emotions in the text (emotional spectrum of the text). The analysis of both arrays showed the coincidence of their emotional spectra, which confirms the truthfulness of the respondents’ statements. The group of emotions “conscience, guilt, justice” is predominant, which indicates the desire of young people for stability balance and fair housing arrangement.