Comfort and Burden: The Changing Meaning of Home for Owners At‐Risk of Foreclosure

McCormack, Karen

doi:10.1002/symb.32

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“…Scholars working in Western contexts should attend to the growing qualitative literature on symbolic boundaries and housing exclusion in England and Norway (D. Robinson 2013, Vassenden 2014) and the meaning of homeownership when experiencing home value loss or foreclosure in the United States (Davidson 2012, McCormack 2012). Both objective and subjective measures of indebtedness and value should be incorporated into research on ownership effects.…”

Section: Research Designs For the Study Of Housing Effectsmentioning

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The Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Political Effects of Housing in Comparative Perspective

Zavisca

Gerber

2016

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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Few sociologists treat housing as a key independent variable, despite the emergence of disparate bodies of research analyzing how housing affects outcomes that traditionally interest sociologists. Scholars across the social sciences have proposed and tested mechanisms whereby housing could shape subjective wellbeing, socioeconomic status, demography, and politics. We review the evidence for causal effects across these domains. Next, we make recommendations for research designs to advance this literature. Most studies only test effects of homeownership, and most are focused on the United States and Western Europe. The evidence for causation is often weak, although studies increasingly employ complex techniques for identifying effects. Throughout, we emphasize studies beyond the United States, and we conclude by discussing distinctive insights yielded by comparative research. We advocate for a comparative perspective and more expansive conceptualization of housing status as a means to build theory and evidence regarding the conditions under which housing exerts effects.

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Section: Research Designs For the Study Of Housing Effectsmentioning

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The Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Political Effects of Housing in Comparative Perspective

Zavisca

Gerber

2016

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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“…Thus from the perspective of ‘ontological security’ [ 15 , 16 ], the home is seen as providing a secure base from which people can develop confidence in self and social identity [ 17 , 18 ]. Moreover, research across different housing sectors [ 19 , 20 ] and examining the specific experiences of different social groups [ 21 – 23 ] suggests that the subjective experience of housing and housing services can be important in creating a sense of home and underpinning ontological security.…”

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Housing as a social determinant of health and wellbeing: developing an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework

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Background: The role of housing as a social determinant of health is well-established, but the causal pathways are poorly understood beyond the direct effects of physical housing defects. For low-income, vulnerable households there are particular challenges in creating a sense of home in a new tenancy which may have substantial effects on health and wellbeing. This study examines the role of these less tangible aspects of the housing experience for tenants in the social and private rented sectors in west central Scotland. Methods: The paper analyses quantitative data from a mixed methods, longitudinal study of tenants from three housing organisations, collected across the first year of their tenancy. The paper postulates causal hypotheses on the basis of staff interviews and then uses a Realist Research approach to test and refine these into a theoretical framework for the connections between tenants' broader experience of housing and their health and wellbeing. Results: Housing service provision, tenants' experience of property quality and aspects of neighbourhood are all demonstrated to be significantly correlated with measures of of health and wellbeing. Analysis of contextual factors provides additional detail within the theoretical framework, offering a basis for further empirical work. Conclusions: The findings provide an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework for causal pathways connecting less tangible aspects of the housing experience to health and wellbeing. Applying this within housing policy and practice would facilitate a focus on housing as a public health intervention, with potential for significant impacts on the lives of low-income and vulnerable tenants. The framework also offers a basis for further research to refine our understanding of housing as a social determinant of health.

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“…For those who lose their home to foreclosure, the loss invokes non-material and material stressors. It represents a significant loss of wealth (Nettleton and Burrows, 2000), and invokes feeling of shame, loss, stigma, identity crises, and a sense of failure to maintain the American Dream (Keene et al, 2015; Libman et al, 2012; McCormack, 2012). At the contextual level, the foreclosure crisis transformed the social fabric of many communities in the United States, in ways that are germane to both social integration and suicide.…”

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The harder they fall? Sex and race/ethnic specific suicide rates in the U.S. foreclosure crisis

Houle

Light

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Previous work shows suicide rates increase during economic recessions, but little research has examined the extent to which the foreclosure crisis—a unique aspect of the Great Recession—has contributed to disparities in rising suicide rates by race and sex. We develop and test two competing hypotheses regarding the association between foreclosures and race by sex specific suicide rates. We link foreclosure data (RealtyTrac) and suicide data (CDC) from 174 metropolitan areas from 2005 to 2010 (1044 MSA-year observations) and find that—net of time invariant unobserved between-metro area differences, national time trends, and time-varying confounders—a rise in the foreclosure rate is associated with a marginal increase in suicide, but this main effect masks considerable heterogeneity across groups. The association is particularly strong for white males, and weaker or non-existent for other race by sex groups.

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Comfort and Burden: The Changing Meaning of Home for Owners At‐Risk of Foreclosure

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

The Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Political Effects of Housing in Comparative Perspective

The Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Political Effects of Housing in Comparative Perspective

Housing as a social determinant of health and wellbeing: developing an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework

The harder they fall? Sex and race/ethnic specific suicide rates in the U.S. foreclosure crisis

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