Residential mobility and mental health
We examine the extent to which residential relocation within and between tenure types is associated with changes in mental health. We focus on four types of housing transition – rent-to-own, own-to-rent, own-to-own, and rent-to-rent – using Australian and UK panel data sets from 2001 to 2017. In bot...
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| author | Wood, Gavin A Clark, William AV ViforJ, Rachel Smith, Susan J Truong, Nguyen Tuan Khuong |
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| description | We examine the extent to which residential relocation within and between tenure types is associated with changes in mental health. We focus on four types of housing transition – rent-to-own, own-to-rent, own-to-own, and rent-to-rent – using Australian and UK panel data sets from 2001 to 2017. In both countries, transitions into homeownership and moves away from the mortgaged edges toward the unburdened mainstream of outright ownership are positively associated with mental health. On the other hand, shifts by mortgagors towards more precarious positions on the edges of ownership precipitate dips in mental health when there is exposure to high levels of payment and investment risks. Clearly, residential moves can both alleviate and introduce different kinds of risks that affect affordability. Moreover, tenure transitions have impacts on mental health beyond the impacts of payment and investment risks. However, we observe some cross-national differences in findings. In Australia, loss of homeownership has a negative impact on mental health that outweighs the mental health impacts of attaining ownership. In the UK, these findings are reversed. Acute housing affordability problems following moves in Australia, but not in the UK, are a significant driver of mental health outcomes. These differences have institutional explanations. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-898842023-02-01T07:53:53Z Residential mobility and mental health Wood, Gavin A Clark, William AV ViforJ, Rachel Smith, Susan J Truong, Nguyen Tuan Khuong We examine the extent to which residential relocation within and between tenure types is associated with changes in mental health. We focus on four types of housing transition – rent-to-own, own-to-rent, own-to-own, and rent-to-rent – using Australian and UK panel data sets from 2001 to 2017. In both countries, transitions into homeownership and moves away from the mortgaged edges toward the unburdened mainstream of outright ownership are positively associated with mental health. On the other hand, shifts by mortgagors towards more precarious positions on the edges of ownership precipitate dips in mental health when there is exposure to high levels of payment and investment risks. Clearly, residential moves can both alleviate and introduce different kinds of risks that affect affordability. Moreover, tenure transitions have impacts on mental health beyond the impacts of payment and investment risks. However, we observe some cross-national differences in findings. In Australia, loss of homeownership has a negative impact on mental health that outweighs the mental health impacts of attaining ownership. In the UK, these findings are reversed. Acute housing affordability problems following moves in Australia, but not in the UK, are a significant driver of mental health outcomes. These differences have institutional explanations. 2022 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89884 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101321 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190101461 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT200100422 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Elsevier fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Wood, Gavin A Clark, William AV ViforJ, Rachel Smith, Susan J Truong, Nguyen Tuan Khuong Residential mobility and mental health |
| title | Residential mobility and mental health |
| title_full | Residential mobility and mental health |
| title_fullStr | Residential mobility and mental health |
| title_full_unstemmed | Residential mobility and mental health |
| title_short | Residential mobility and mental health |
| title_sort | residential mobility and mental health |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190101461 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190101461 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89884 |