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Od bydlení k domovu: nákup bytu jako zrození domova

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Abstract

The chapter ‘From Housing to Home: Buying Housing to Build a Home’ focuses specifically on an analysis of statements from people buying their first housing. The statements of respondents reveal buying a home to be a dynamic process that comprises a whole range of steps and decisions. Behind the decision to buy housing we found a normatively set preference for homeownership. The chapter describes in detail the structure and content of this normative idea and shows that the preference for homeownership, as articulated by individual first-time buyers, relates not just to the material side of housing but also and above all to its emotional side, to the emotional experience and the experience more generally of being ‘at home’. An in-depth content analysis of statements shows that the ideas that shape the process of buying housing are ideas about (one’s future) home and these are shaped not just by what kind of housing a person has experienced in the past, one’s personal history and current circumstances, but also by ideas about what constitutes ideal housing. The purchase of a flat or house, if it comes about, is the result of a process of negotiation between financial (and other) constraints and notion about ideal housing. A purchase essentially represents and is perceived by respondents as a compromise between ideas and wishes on the one hand and possibilities and constraints on the other hand.