Toward A Conceptual Model: Residential Mobility Among Low-Income, Inner-City Families

Abstract

This paper is based on an in-depth analysis of 71 families with children living in rental housing in a low-income, inner-city neighborhood located in Winnipeg, Canada. The study explored how these families perceived their housing environment, their residential mobility, and the factors that influenced their mobility.

The paper discusses a conceptual model generated from this research. In developing the model, profiles outlining the characteristics of five categories of residents were generated to represent different groups of residents, their relationships to the neighbor-hood, and their propensity to move. Groups were characterized according to locus of control, connections to work and services consumed, social networks, identification with the neighborhood, anchorage in the neighborhood, and propensity to move.

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Nancy C. Higgitt

Nancy Higgitt is Professor in the Department of Family Studies at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.