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"Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This timely Advanced Introduction explores the links between housing and households, including the complex process of how people sort themselves into houses and neighborhoods. It covers the choices that households make, why these choices are made, and the constraints faced in achieving housing aspirations, with a particular focus on the contemporary difficulties facing young adults and those unable to buy a house despite a reasonable income. Key features include: using the concept of the life course to analyse residential decisions and choices discussing tenure choice, affordability and social housing, as well as how neighborhoods matter in urban studies reviewing what is known about how the housing market operates, and how families and individuals engage with the process of becoming homeowners providing new information on the urban housing environment in a time of rising inequality, low income growth and extensive regulation in the housing market. Advanced students and professionals of geography, planning, demography and economics will find this an invigorating read on how housing markets operate and the role of individual decisions about homeownership and residential space"--

Residential preferences and their role in creating and maintaining residential segregation are a subject of intense interest in ongoing debates about race and residential sorting in U.S. metropolitan areas and are central in work based on the Schelling tolerance models of residential selection. This study examines how residential preferences change across income, education, and age and provides new information on how race and socioeconomic status interact to create patterns of preference in particular locations. In general, African-Americans with increasing income show a distinct shift to greater willingness to live in integrated settings but also a distinct shift to own-race selections with second choices for neighborhood composition. Whites' unwillingness to move to African-American neighborhoods of more than 50% other race exacerbates the tendency to separate. Socioeconomic status plays a similar role for other ethnic groups. These findings parallel those from agent-based modeling about the low probability of achieving substantial mixing of racial and ethnic groups.

An examination of the difficulties involved in identifying a straightforward link between environmentally induced migration & conflict points out the complexity of the interaction between environmental change & the social/political context. Although conflict is directly linked with declining resources & tensions created by displaced populations, environmentally induced conflict is often hidden under the guise of religious, ethnic, or civil struggles. Environmental conflicts may manifest themselves as political or social tensions rather than conflicts over resources per se. Adapted from the source document.

An examination of the impact of recent changes in large-scale migration to the US focuses on variations in entry-point cities. The shift from mostly European migrants to increasing numbers of Hispanic & Asian migrants is analyzed from (1) the position that large-scale immigration is ultimately beneficial for the migrants, the US, & the countries of origin; & (2) the view that recent immigration is a serious national problem. It is argued that spatial concentration exacerbates the negative effects of low skills & low incomes, & the spatial segregation of new immigrants leads to segregation in other areas of life & ultimately a divided society. The role of entry-point cities as way stations to the larger integrated society is changing, & there is evidence that cities like Los Angeles are seeing emerging spatial concentrations of immigrants similar to inner-city concentrations of black poverty. New arrivals are trapped in poverty & isolation in neighborhoods where ethnic groups compete for housing space &, without social intervention, are faced with a downward spiral into hopelessness. 2 Tables, 7 Figures. J. Lindroth