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Abstract
This paper provides readers with an understanding of how homeowners in the United States say they would like to live. It does so by specifically asking members of this population to express how they want their house, land, and occupants to perform in order to improve their overall home-living situation. Throughout this paper, the concept of increasing the overall performance of the home-living situation is examined by introducing a new term into the housing and community development literature “homeflow” a term that this study uses to measure the overall performance or success of the home, where the home in this study is limited to comprising the house, land, and occupants. The justification for this limitation is to establish a manageable basis for the initial phase of the homeflow research, which can then be expanded upon in future studies. Results of this study posit an explanation that can account for about one-quarter of what constitutes an effective overall home-living situation. These initial findings provide the foundation for further refinement and subsequent testing of homeflow in order to explain the remaining three-quarters of what constitutes an effective overall home-living situation.
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Randall A. Cantrell
Randall A. Cantrell is Assistant Professor and Housing and Community Development Specialist, University of Florida, Gainesville.