TY - JOUR
T1 - Through the front door
T2 - The housing outcomes of new lawful immigrants
AU - McConnell, Eileen
AU - Redstone Akresh, Ilana
PY - 2008/3
Y1 - 2008/3
N2 - Immigrants represent an increasingly vital component of the U.S. housing market, though there is a substantial and growing gap in homeownership rates between natives and the foreign born. We employ the New Immigrant Survey-2003 to examine the housing tenure of immigrants recently adjusted to new legal permanent resident status. The results reveal important cross-national differences in the linkages between transfers to the origin country, relationships with U.S. mainstream financial institutions, previous unauthorized experience, and housing tenure. Analyses also document that immigrants occupy three distinct housing outcomes in America; renting, owning, and living for free.
AB - Immigrants represent an increasingly vital component of the U.S. housing market, though there is a substantial and growing gap in homeownership rates between natives and the foreign born. We employ the New Immigrant Survey-2003 to examine the housing tenure of immigrants recently adjusted to new legal permanent resident status. The results reveal important cross-national differences in the linkages between transfers to the origin country, relationships with U.S. mainstream financial institutions, previous unauthorized experience, and housing tenure. Analyses also document that immigrants occupy three distinct housing outcomes in America; renting, owning, and living for free.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2007.00116.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2007.00116.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:40749113230
SN - 0197-9183
VL - 42
SP - 134
EP - 162
JO - International Migration Review
JF - International Migration Review
IS - 1
ER -