Redefining the Canadian Dream? Household life cycles, housing costs, and aspirations for suburban housing
Description:
In interviews conducted about development trends in suburban areas around Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto a discourse emerged about the relationship between household life cycles and housing careers. Although those interviewed saw the detached house as the ultimate aim for nuclear families, those producing housing in the fastest growing and most expensive parts of the country were revising the housing pathway script to accommodate multiple steps of home ownership en route to the Canadian Dream. The study illustrates the way that those planning, building, and inhabiting the suburbs socially construct the meanings of housing.
Type of Resource:
Report
Publication Date:
2011
Location:
Vancouver, BC; Calgary, AB; Toronto, ON, Canada