Migration and Location Decisions by Renter Households: An Analysis with the Los Angeles-Long Beach Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) Sample of the Annual Housing Survey

摘要

Least - squares analysis was used to explain migration and location decisions by renter households in the Los Angeles - Long Beach Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. Study data came from the Annual Housing Surveys from 1974 and 1977. Dummy variables were included in the regressions to represent the ages of housing units. Migration was found to decline continually as the head of the household became older. Households with a head 60 years of age or older were predicted to be 44 percent less likely to move than the youngest households. Turnover was predicted to be 15 percent greater in the newest housing units than in the oldest housing units. The number of persons in the household, household income, and minority household head all had nonsignificant affects on migration. The results based on the age of the head of the household and the age of the housing unit were similar to those obtained from a national sample of renter households, but the results based on race differed from those of the national sample. Newer and larger households were found to be normal goods in the economic sense. The presence of abandonment and a central city location increased the probability that the household would be occupied by minority group members. The analysis of turnover was more useful than the analysis of location in providing insights into questions related to types of rent agreements between tenants and landlords. Tables and a list of four references are provided.