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Ethnically bounded homeownership: qualitative insights on Los Angeles immigrant homeowners’ experiences during the U.S. Great Recession

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  • Deirdre Pfeiffer
  • Karna Wong
  • Paul Ong
  • Melany De La Cruz-Viesca

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Immigrant homeowners’ function within ethnic boundaries in the housing market may have helped or hindered them during the recent U.S. Great Recession. This research explores this theme through interviews with immigrant and non-immigrant homeowners from four ethnic communities in Los Angeles County and the non-profit organizations that tried to assist them. Immigrant homeowners turned to co-ethnics for advice and support and formed multigenerational households as a strategy to achieve and sustain homeownership. Language and cultural barriers primed them for risky loans and thwarted their pursuit of refinance and modification when they struggled to make mortgage payments. These findings conform to existing evidence of ethnic segmentation in the housing market and imply that analyses of home buying and homeownership in areas with significant immigrant populations should factor in the role of ethnicity.

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  • Deirdre Pfeiffer & Karna Wong & Paul Ong & Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, 2017. "Ethnically bounded homeownership: qualitative insights on Los Angeles immigrant homeowners’ experiences during the U.S. Great Recession," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(3), pages 319-335, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:32:y:2017:i:3:p:319-335
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2016.1208159
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    1. Kristin Aarland & Anna Maria Santiago, 2023. "Serious Mortgage Arrears among Immigrant Descendant and Native Participants in a Low-Income Public Starter Mortgage Program: Evidence from Norway," Societies, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-28, May.

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