International audienceIn this article, we question the role that sharing practices can play in the pathways to independent housing for middle-class young people in a context of precariousness of this population. The article is based on a corpus of 25 semi-structured interviews conducted with 33 young people aged between 18 and 30 at the time of the interview (19 women and 14 men in the sample). The interviews were conducted mainly in a medium-sized conurbation between 2018 and 2020. As the residential pathway is closely linked to the lifecourse, a biographical perspective was deployed to capture the paths, junctions and temporalities that mark the entry and exit of shared accommodation. The article shows that the practices of home-sharing a...