DS1 gets home work most nights in Yr7, not from every subject every day though.
He can have as little as 20 minutes research or written work to do or nothing at all, to a project or larger piece of work that has to be handed in in 2 weeks time.
Some days he has 90 minutes worth of homework across a few subjects, others nothing at all.
The biggest learning curve for him has been managing the workload, and learning not to put the larger pieces with the longer had over dates off to the last minute. And that if he is given a larger piece of homework with a longer return date on it, it is because the teachers expect him to put more effort into it and produce extended and challenging work.
He came from a Primary where he had regular homework that he had to do most nights, but the amount he gets in Yr7 has been an eye opener - though not as difficult to manage as we thought.
In reality he manages his homework really well now - he recognizes that if he wants to do his extra curricular activities and not panic at weekends about work due in, he has to be more organised. I do still check his planner and remind or "suggest" that he had better get homework done sooner rather than later, but in general it has been OK.