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Housing Aspirations of Southern Appalachian Families

James E. Montgomery

Department of Management, Housing and Family Development, College of Home Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061

Gracia S. McCabe

Department of Management, Housing and Family Development, College of Home Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061

The purposes of this study were to: (1) characterize specific dimensions of life styles in Southern Appalachia, (2) describe current housing conditions, and (3) examine housing aspirations of samples of rural and urban families of the region. In 1969 interviews were conducted with 274 rural and 227 urban families who lived in low-income areas of Southwest Virginia. In the analysis, answers to questions developed around 10 housing characteristics were used to construct a suburban modern/mountain traditional summed scale. Findings suggest that for the most part the mountain respondents desired new or relatively new single-family houses with modern equipment, quite similar to houses desired by mainstream Americans. We concluded that the respondents had relatively high aspirations but that implementation had been constrained by low income and lack of education. (Home Economics Research Journal, September 1973, Vol. 2, No. 1)

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2-11 (1973)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X7300200101
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