Neighbourhood change... reason to leave?
Abstract
Little attention has been paid to date to the role of a changing neighbourhood as a factor influencing the residential choice process. Processes of neighbourhood change are often beyond residents' sphere of influence and if a changing neighbourhood causes residential stress, the only way to improve one's neighbourhood is to move to a better one. This study aims to get more insight into the effect of neighbourhood change on residential stress by studying residents' wish to leave their neighbourhood. Using data from The Netherlands, we show that there is no effect of a change in the socioeconomic status of the neighbourhood on moving wishes. A high level of population turnover and an increase in the proportion of non-Western ethnic minorities in the neighbourhood increase the probability that residents want to leave their neighbourhood. The latter effect disappears when controlled for residents' subjective opinion about neighbourhood change.
Citation
Feijten , P M & Van Ham , M 2009 , ' Neighbourhood change... reason to leave? ' , Urban Studies , vol. 46 , no. 10 , pp. 2103-2122 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098009339430
Publication
Urban Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0042-0980Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2009 Urban Studies Journal Limited. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098009339430
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