Choice or no choice? Genuine or fake choice? - a qualitative study for reflecting on housing choice

Title:

Choice or no choice? Genuine or fake choice? - a qualitative study for reflecting on housing choice

Creator:

Yung, Betty and Leung, Barbara Y.P.

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:b07b1004-02a4-4604-b490-6e938c26775e
uuid:b07b1004-02a4-4604-b490-6e938c26775e
doi:10.13060/23362839.2020.7.2.510

Subject:

housing choice, housing market and supply, housing well-being, qualitative research, and Hong Kong

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

počítač and online zdroj

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.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

1-10

Source:

Critical Housing Analysis | 2020 Volume:7 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

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