Essays about: "Homeownership"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the word Homeownership.

  1. 1. Predicting Neighborhood Attachment in Germany

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Lennart Paul Bischoff; [2022]
    Keywords : Neighborhood attachment; residential environment; environmental psychology; prediction; model; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Neighborhood attachment is an important and influential concept in environmental psychology. Yet, there is a lack of quantitative research that allows predictions to be made. Additionally, whereas neighborhood attachment is influenced by various variables, most studies only have assessed a few predictors. READ MORE

  3. 2. Reducing Housing Barriers for First-time Buyers : Exploring Alternative Mortgage Products to Increase Access to Homeownership

    University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

    Author : Elias Carlson; Johannes Sennerö; [2022]
    Keywords : Alternative mortgage products; first-time buyers; homeownership; shared appreciation mortgage; share equity mortgage; Alternativa bolåneprodukter; bostadsägande; förstagångsköpare; shared appreciation mortgage; share equity mortgage;

    Abstract : Access to homeownership is a major social and economic issue in many countries. Failure to maintain affordability has been discussed as the ultimate agglomeration diseconomy. This report sheds light on the thresholds for first-time buyers in Sweden and possible solutions through financial innovation. READ MORE

  4. 3. Finding Home : Immigrant Homeownership in Sweden

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Andrew Torres; [2022]
    Keywords : International; Migration; Ethnic; Relations; Home; Immigrant; Homeownership; Swedish; Housing Market; Theory of Finding Home; Sweden; Sverige; Immigration;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore and discover how an immigrant ‘finds home’ inSweden through homeownership and to document first-hand experiences on their journey tohomeownership. Thirteen questions were sent via e-mail to twelve (12) participants whowere self-identified immigrants within Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 4. Housing and Populism

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Rebekka Andersson; Gabriel Nelsson Vedung; [2021]
    Keywords : housing market dynamics; populism; political geography;

    Abstract : In the last half-decade, populism has become a trademark of western politics. Much literature has been devoted to explaining the rise in populism and most researchers tend to focus on macroeconomic shifts and trends, often overlooking the impact of house price developments on populist appeal at the individual level. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Unsettlement of the Greek Property Regime and the Emergence of Vigilant Violence in Thessaloniki’s West End

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Nikolaos Vrantsis; [2021]
    Keywords : Housing; Housing System; Property Regime; Loïc Wacquant; Pierre Bourdieu; Social Space; Symbolic Power; Field of power; Thessaloniki; Ksiladika; Vigilance; Vigilant violence; Neoliberalism
; State ;

    Abstract : The thesis inquires into the entanglement between the unsettlement of the Greek model of social reproduction that heavily relies on self-regulated property ownership and the emergence of vigilant violence on behalf of local property owners against undocumented migrants in the relegated neighborhood of Ksiladika in Thessaloniki’s West End. It probes the extent to which incidents of vigilant violence can be used as indicators of the structural deficiencies in the Greek housing system and property paradigm. READ MORE