The report states that a quarter of 20 to 34-year-olds live at home and since 1998 this has risen by 41% in London, where housing is most expensive, but by much less in cheaper areas like north-east England (14%) and Yorkshire and the Humber (17%).
And for 23-year-olds across the UK, the proportion living with parents has risen from 37% in 1998 to 49% in 2017.
As owner-occupation and social housing have each become more difficult to enter, hundreds of thousands of young adults have taken one look at the high rents in the private rented sector and decided to stay with their parents a bit longer instead.
He added that it was essential the government took this into account when forecasting future housing need.
The study also suggests youngsters who do move out are much less likely to live on their own than they were in the late 1990s and single-person households have dropped to 30% in recent years.
This is in stark contrast to most of northern and western Europe, the report says, where single living has been increasing rapidly.
In France and the Netherlands, 35% of households are single-person. And this rises to more than 40% in Germany and Denmark.
New homes
For the last 30 years, governments of all stripes and types have failed to build enough homes, but we're turning that ship around.
We still need to deliver more, better, faster, but more than 222,000 homes were delivered in 2017-18, the highest level in all but one of the last 31 years.
We've also set out an ambitious package of measures to help build 300,000 properties a year by the mid-2020s. This includes over £44bn investment, rewriting the planning rules and giving local authorities the power to build a new generation of council houses.
We are also supporting investment in build-to-rent homes to improve supply and affordability in the private rented sector.
Help for house hunters
We have a number of House Buying Advice and Guides including a video on top tips to help first time buyers, a guide to shared ownership and with a potential bargain to be had, some tips about buying a property at auction to help people get onto the property ladder.
