Browsing by Author "Bayar, Jasmin"

The aim of this study is to examine housing preferences among households in the city of Vantaa. Research interest lies in the different household groups and their valuations associated with housing. The purpose is to find out what kind of housing preferences different households have and to examine whether there can be found differences within the city. Housing preferences are examined through revealed and stated preferences. The revealed preferences are determined by analyzing the current housing choices of the households. Preferred choices for future housing as well as valuations associated with housing are analyzed in order to study the stated preferences. The study is quantitative in nature. The residential survey data has been provided by the city of Vantaa. The survey data has been collected at the turn of the year 2018-2019. The most important methods used are descriptive statistics, factor analysis and regression analysis in SPSS statistics. In addition, the City of Vantaa’s open data spatial datasets are used as background material for the spatial examination of both revealed and stated housing preferences with QGIS 3.4 application. The most important findings of this study confirm that there exists a connection between different life stages, and both revealed and stated preferences. The most common revealed preference among the households in Vantaa according to tenure type is owner occupied housing and, according to the type of house, an apartment building. The revealed preference for rental housing is emphasized among the youngest and one-person household respondents. The preference for living in an apartment building is most common among the youngest, older, and one-person household respondents. Majority of the households live in accordance with their preferences according to the analyzed survey data. From the point of view of the stated preferences, the future housing aspirations of households emphasize the popularity of owner-occupied housing: the majority of the respondents want to live in owner-occupied apartment in the future. Hopes for the desired size of the apartment in the future are related to the size and the stage of life of the households. Younger, older, and one-person household respondents are more urban-oriented than other residents in the light of the survey data.