Home ownership and class in modern Canada

Harris, Richard

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.1986.tb00005.x

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“…The concept of housing class suggests that there is a close correspondence between housing types (including housing values, housing characteristics, and housing tenure) and social groups, and that a hierarchy of housing classes can be established and the housing characteristics of each described. Often there is also a clustering of particular housing classes in particular areas (Harloe, 1984;Harris, 1986;Onokehoraye, 1977). With no available total sampling frame for identifying the varieties of housing within the study area, three clusters of housing classes were empirically identified for the study through on-the-spot sampling.…”

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Meeting Housing-Space Demand through in Situ Housing Adjustments in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

Awanyo

2009

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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In this primary research-based paper I highlight an officially neglected housing supply strategy in Ghana. I discuss the ubiquitous in situ housing strategies employed by households of varying socioeconomic means for meeting housing-space demand and the factors that condition these strategies in the Madina-Adenta area of the rapidly expanding Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. Income and available housing space, household and room occupancy rates, changes in household size, length of residence, tenure, and housing stress were factors in the adoption of housing-space strategies. While 44% of respondents expressed great need for additional housing space, lack of financial resources and the problem of affordability were primary constraints on their ability to employ an incremental housing-space strategy. Access to a good supply of affordable housing credit is thus viewed as a critical housing policy mechanism for enabling in situ housing construction.

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Section: Districtmentioning

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Meeting Housing-Space Demand through in Situ Housing Adjustments in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

Awanyo

2009

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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“…chapitres 1 et 2). À cette époque, des règlements restrictifs (covenants) ont contribué à construire des outils juridiques de mise à l'écart, à commencer par les covenants et règlements limitant l'accès aux rues, parcs et parties prestigieuses de la ville et des lotissements bourgeois des périphéries (Nightingale 2012), par exemple en Angleterre (Ward 1975), au Canada (Harris 1986), et évidemment aux États-Unis (Jackson 1985) où ces règlements ont une forte composante de discrimination raciale (Massey & Denton 1993). Cette structure spatiale a largement défini les arrangements zonaux de l'école de Chicago d'écologie urbaine (Burgess et al 1925).…”

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Ségrégation sociospatiale dans les villes

GOIX¹

2022

Les Villes Au Cœur Des Inégalités

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“…Social factors having an influence include mortgage systems, differences in household formation, educational attainment, generational transmissions and race (Halket and Vasudev 2014;Mulder and Smits 2013;Fisher and Gervais 2011;Gyourko et al 1999;Chua and Miller 2009). Economic factors of effect include earning risk; unemployment risk and income uncertainty; female participation in the labour force; income, wealth, credit constraints, and prices of homes; income of immigrants and transaction costs and price risks (Halket and Vasudev 2014;Droes and Hassink 2013;Fisher and Gervais 2011;Gathergood 2011;Flippen 2001;Chua and Miller 2009;Harris 1986).…”

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Retiree home ownership in Saudi Arabia: the role of geographic, demographic, social and economic variables

Al-Khraif¹,

Al-Mutairi²,

Alradihan³

et al. 2018

J Pop Research

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Home ownership has implications for a family's empowerment and quality of life, especially post-retirement. Economic conditions, the cost of living, and child-rearing create barriers to accumulating immovable assets, including the home. This study identifies the determinants of home ownership among retireesgeographic, demographic, social and economic variables-and explains the effect using data drawn from five administrative areas in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh, Madina, Eastern, Jazan, and Jouf) representing planning regions (Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western and Central). A large proportion of retirees (82%) own a home (purchased before or after retirement), with regional differences. Retirees from Jouf and Jazan have higher ownership rates than their counterparts in Riyadh, Madina, or Eastern, with rates affected by geographic, demographic, social, and economic factors. As determinants, geographic and demographic factors have major roles while economic factors play a typical role in decision-making. A mix of higher education, professional employment, longer duration of employment and higher salaries, when combined with locational preferences and family requirements, motivate or enable home ownership. Retiree home-ownership is important to

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Home ownership and class in modern Canada

Cited by 15 publications

References 27 publications

Meeting Housing-Space Demand through in Situ Housing Adjustments in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

Meeting Housing-Space Demand through in Situ Housing Adjustments in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

Ségrégation sociospatiale dans les villes

Retiree home ownership in Saudi Arabia: the role of geographic, demographic, social and economic variables

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