Choice or No Choice? Genuine or Fake Choice? – A Qualitative Study for Reflecting on Housing Choice
This paper seeks to reflect on issues related to the nature of housing choice, drawing on qualitative empirical data collected in in-depth interviews. This paper discusses two perspectives related to housing choice, namely, the ‘market perspective of housing choice’ and the ‘perspective of...
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2020-01-01
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| description | This paper seeks to reflect on issues related to the nature of housing choice, drawing on qualitative empirical data collected in in-depth interviews. This paper discusses two perspectives related to housing choice, namely, the ‘market perspective of housing choice’ and the ‘perspective of housing choice for well-being’. The ‘market perspective of housing choice’ highlights that desirability generally increases with a greater range of housing choice as the housing supply increases till a climax is reached, after which a further expansion of housing choice may indicate an excess housing supply, which may not be advantageous and home-buyers may instead ‘decide not to choose or buy’. The ‘perspective of housing choice for well-being’ reveals that choice in the housing arena is often viewed as a means to eventual well-being, rather than as an end in itself. Housing choice is ‘genuine’ and ‘meaningful’ if there are meaningful and significant options among a few desirable housing alternatives. ‘Fake housing choice’ involves having to choose from among housing options that are all generally bad. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-69cb5fa4d2d24feababc4b5b250f9b742025-08-20T01:50:07ZengInstitute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of SciencesCritical Housing Analysis2336-28392020-01-017211010.13060/23362839.2020.7.2.510Choice or No Choice? Genuine or Fake Choice? – A Qualitative Study for Reflecting on Housing ChoiceBetty YungBarbara Leung This paper seeks to reflect on issues related to the nature of housing choice, drawing on qualitative empirical data collected in in-depth interviews. This paper discusses two perspectives related to housing choice, namely, the ‘market perspective of housing choice’ and the ‘perspective of housing choice for well-being’. The ‘market perspective of housing choice’ highlights that desirability generally increases with a greater range of housing choice as the housing supply increases till a climax is reached, after which a further expansion of housing choice may indicate an excess housing supply, which may not be advantageous and home-buyers may instead ‘decide not to choose or buy’. The ‘perspective of housing choice for well-being’ reveals that choice in the housing arena is often viewed as a means to eventual well-being, rather than as an end in itself. Housing choice is ‘genuine’ and ‘meaningful’ if there are meaningful and significant options among a few desirable housing alternatives. ‘Fake housing choice’ involves having to choose from among housing options that are all generally bad.http://www.housing-critical.com/home-page-1/choice-or-no-choice-genuine-or-fake-choice-a-qu |
| spellingShingle | Betty Yung Barbara Leung Choice or No Choice? Genuine or Fake Choice? – A Qualitative Study for Reflecting on Housing Choice Critical Housing Analysis |
| title | Choice or No Choice? Genuine or Fake Choice? – A Qualitative Study for Reflecting on Housing Choice |
| title_full | Choice or No Choice? Genuine or Fake Choice? – A Qualitative Study for Reflecting on Housing Choice |
| title_fullStr | Choice or No Choice? Genuine or Fake Choice? – A Qualitative Study for Reflecting on Housing Choice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Choice or No Choice? Genuine or Fake Choice? – A Qualitative Study for Reflecting on Housing Choice |
| title_short | Choice or No Choice? Genuine or Fake Choice? – A Qualitative Study for Reflecting on Housing Choice |
| title_sort | choice or no choice genuine or fake choice a qualitative study for reflecting on housing choice |
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