ABSTRACT
Earlier chapters in this book established the ways in which mobility and housing choices are interlinked. Those chapters developed an explanation for the way in which individuals, with particular age and income characteristics, relocate within particular housing markets, and what influences their choices. The interplay of mobility and the development of the housing stock create the aggregate pattern of housing occupancy in a nation as a whole. Moreover, economic and social contexts also affect the form of the outcomes. The aim of this concluding chapter is to illustrate how the overall pattern of outcomes is the result of the aggregation of individual choices. It is also designed to demonstrate the similarities and differences in outcomes in our two “very different” housing nations—the United States and the Netherlands. This final chapter has been organized around three questions: who gets which housing; in terms of tenure and type, what does it cost; and where do households live? Thus, an attempt is made to parallel these themes, which were used as the organizing structure for chapter one. It is not the intention to cover all aspects of outcomes.
