Forever Homes and Temporary Stops: Housing Search Logics and Residential Selection
Forever Homes and Temporary Stops: Housing Search Logics and Residential Selection
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永远的家和暂时的停留：住房搜索逻辑和住宅选择
DOI：
10.1093/sf/soz110
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发表时间：
2019
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Stefanie DeLuca
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文献类型：
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作者：
H. Harvey;Kelley Fong;K. Edin;Stefanie DeLuca
摘要：住宅选择是决定儿童住房、社区和学校环境的核心，大量文献考虑了塑造住宅寻找和成就的社会过程。虽然这些文献通常将住宅搜索框架为一个统一的过程，以寻找具有所需特征的住宅选择为导向，但我们研究了个人是否可能以维持居住成就不平等的方式不同地构想这些搜索。通过对两个大都市县156个有幼儿的家庭的分层随机样本的反复深入访谈，我们发现父母表现出不同的住宅搜索逻辑，这是由他们所面临的约束所决定的。高收入家庭通常会根据他们的居住偏好进行有目的的搜索。他们寻找“永远的家”，以满足他们家庭未来几年的需求。相比之下，低收入家庭的父母通常采用的是推迟生育的逻辑。虽然他们希望最终能找到一套拥有他们想要的单元、社区和学校特征的房子，但对房屋所有权的渴望使他们把搬家（通常是在租赁单元之间）视为“临时停留”，这就证明了接受与他们长期偏好不一致的房子是合理的。此外，由于他们经常被不利的环境“逼着”搬家，他们把注意力集中在他们眼前的住房需求上，在最极端的情况下，他们采取了一种“不在这里的任何地方”的办法。这些逻辑构成了一种未经检验的机制，通过这种机制，经济资源塑造了居住搜索和最终成就。
Abstract:Residential selection is central in determining children's housing, neighborhood, and school contexts, and an extensive literature considers the social processes that shape residential searches and attainment. While this literature typically frames the residential search as a uniform process oriented around finding residential options with desired characteristics, we examine whether individuals may differentially conceive of these searches in ways that sustain inequality in residential attainment. Drawing on repeated, in-depth interviews with a stratified random sample of 156 households with young children in two metropolitan counties, we find that parents exhibit distinct residential search logics, informed by the constraints they face. Higher-income families usually engage in purposive searches oriented around their residential preferences. They search for "forever homes" that will meet their families' needs for years to come. In contrast, low-income parents typically draw on a logic of deferral. While they hope to eventually search for a home with the unit, neighborhood, and school characteristics they desire, aspirations for homeownership lead them to conceive of their moves (which are often between rental units) as "temporary stops," which justifies accepting homes that are inconsistent with their longterm preferences. In addition, because they are often "pushed" to move by negative circumstances, they focus on their immediate housing needs and, in the most extreme cases, adopt an "anywhere but here" approach. These logics constitute an unexamined mechanism through which economic resources shape residential searches and ultimate attainment.