Abstract
Conceptualization and analysis of the relations between dwelling and neighborhood satisfaction, movement intention, and mobility presented in previous research suffer from two major deficiencies: (1) the role of other life events such as marriage, divorce, retirement, and loss of spouse are usually ignored; (2) important differences between different sociodemographic groups are obscured. In this paper a more general model of mobility including other life events is presented and the subgroup differences are explored in terms of the difficulties experienced by disadvantaged groups, particularly the elderly, in translating expectations into action. Two sets of longitudinal data are utilized, one from the Community Development Strategies Evaluation undertaken in nine U.S. cities and the other from the Quality of Life Surveys collected by the Institute of Behavioural Research at York University for a Canadian sample. Consistent results are obtained which show that not only do substantial numbers of respondents...
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