ABSTRACT
In France twenty years ago, questions around residential strategies, residential mobility (at a geographic level), access to home ownership, residential choices and the articulation between family structure and housing were the focus of a substantial amount of research. But nowadays it seems that this issue is of little interest to researchers. In reality, however, this is only an impression, because of the difficulties of setting boundaries and identifying the different aspects of such a subject (Authier et al., 2010). Several aspects of residential trajectories, often linked to economic and political contexts, have been studied for the past 50 years. Before the 1980s, researchers focused on access to social housing. After this, and due to the shift from bricks-and-mortar to personal subsidies at the end of the 70s, questions of access to homeownership and residential choices became progressively more important. 1
