IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/chosxx/v29y2014i8p1096-1116.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Housing Trajectories Across the Urban Hierarchy: Analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, 2001-2005

Author

Listed:
  • Dylan Simone
  • K. Bruce Newbold

Abstract

Within the Canadian housing market, some immigrants move quickly to quality, affordable housing, whereas others struggle through both systematic and institutional barriers. This article uses Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) -capturing the settlement and integration experiences of immigrants from 2001 to 2005-and investigates housing conditions (housing satisfaction, rates of homeownership, crowding, and affordability) over three survey waves across the Canadian urban hierarchy. Descriptive statistics are used to explore the relationship between immigrant admission class, housing conditions, and settlement locations, namely, those arriving in primary settlement locations (Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver) relative to that observed in secondary (census metropolitan areas) and tertiary (census agglomerations) locations. Using overall housing satisfaction as a proxy for the suitability/adequacy of housing to the needs of the immigrants, a logistic regression model is used seeking to understand the factors shaping a satisfied housing experience; the most significant factors include owning one's home, having an excellent or very good level of self-rated health, and not living in crowded conditions. The results of this research are framed as advancing understanding in the Canadian immigrant housing discourse through providing a longitudinal perspective on immigrant housing trajectories, and how these vary across socio-demographic and economic factors.

Suggested Citation

  • Dylan Simone & K. Bruce Newbold, 2014. "Housing Trajectories Across the Urban Hierarchy: Analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, 2001-2005," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(8), pages 1096-1116, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:29:y:2014:i:8:p:1096-1116
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.933782
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/02673037.2014.933782
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/02673037.2014.933782?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jennifer Dean & Kristen Regier & Asiya Patel & Kathi Wilson & Effat Ghassemi, 2018. "Beyond the Cosmopolis: Sustaining Hyper-Diversity in the Suburbs of Peel Region, Ontario," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 3(4), pages 38-49.
    2. Vincent Z. Kuuire & Godwin Arku & Isaac Luginaah & Teresa Abada & Michael Buzzelli, 2016. "Impact of Remittance Behaviour on Immigrant Homeownership Trajectories: An Analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Canada from 2001 to 2005," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 127(3), pages 1135-1156, July.
    3. Allen, Jeff & Palm, Matthew & Aitken, Ignacio Tiznado & Farber, Steven, 2022. "Inequalities of extreme commuting across Canada," OSF Preprints u72ky, Center for Open Science.
    4. Natalya R. Brown, 2017. "Housing Experiences of Recent Immigrants to Canada’s Small Cities: the Case of North Bay, Ontario," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 18(3), pages 719-747, August.
    5. Melita Ptashnick & Daniyal Zuberi, 2018. "To Live Apart or Together: Integration Outcomes of Astronaut Versus Dual-Parent Household Strategies," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 849-864, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:29:y:2014:i:8:p:1096-1116. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/chos20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.