This article examines the emotional dimensions of housing insecurity among young adults in Hungary, a post-socialist housing system characterised by exceptionally high rates of owner occupation, residual public rental housing and a weakly regulated private rental sector. While the concept of Generation Rent has been widely used to describe the growing difficulties faced by young adults in accessing homeownership, its implications differ across housing regimes. In Hungary’s super-homeownership regime, renting has expanded among younger cohorts, yet owner occupation remains strongly associated with stability, autonomy, adulthood and social respectability. Drawing on a mixed-methods research design, the article combines survey evidence on housing trajectories, tenure aspirations and intergenerational support with 30 semi-structured interviews conducted with young adults in different housing situations. The analysis shows that housing insecurity is experienced not only as an affordability problem, but also as an affective and relational condition shaped by uncertainty, dependence, shame, blocked autonomy and constrained future planning. The article applies the framework of social-affective citizenship to demonstrate how housing regimes distribute not only material opportunities, but also unequal experiences of emotional security, dignity, belonging and legitimate adulthood. The findings highlight the central role of intergenerational transfers in mediating access to stable housing, while also revealing the emotional ambivalence associated with family dependence. The Hungarian case suggests that Generation Rent in post-socialist super-homeownership systems cannot be understood simply as a tenure shift towards renting, but rather as a contradiction between persistent ownership-centred norms and increasingly insecure housing pathways among younger generations.