Current research on the housing careers of urban low‐income groups, dominated by quantitative modelling, has discussed the housing predicament faced by the urban poor at length. While much is known about the factors influencing their housing careers, these studies have failed to provide a satisfactory understanding of the intricacy and depth of human struggles those vulnerable groups experienced in the urban housing market. This contributes a four‐period model, through a dialogue with the established life cycle/life course theories, to the reconceptualization of housing career of the urban poor and depicts a vivid and continuous housing trajectory by analysing their lived experiences at each period. This paper finds that, in a highly constrained and segregated housing market, the housing problems experienced by low‐income earners and their coping strategies are far more complex and variegated than traditional life cycle/course theory would predict. Factors at individual, household, community and even national levels are often interwoven and, more importantly, the combinations of these influences are constantly changing, sometimes repeating along their housing career forming a nuanced dynamism that has been largely overlooked by existing research.

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成都城市贫民的住房经历：城市住房生涯的四个不同时期


目前对城市低收入群体住房生涯的研究以定量模型为主，对城市贫困人口面临的住房困境进行了较为详尽的探讨。尽管人们对影响其住房职业的因素了解很多，但这些研究未能对这些弱势群体在城市住房市场中经历的人类斗争的复杂性和深度提供令人满意的理解。这通过与已建立的生命周期/生命历程理论的对话，贡献了一个四阶段模型，对城市贫民的住房生涯进行了重新概念化，并通过分析他们在每个阶段的生活经历，描绘了一个生动且连续的住房轨迹。本文发现，在高度受限和隔离的住房市场中，低收入者所经历的住房问题及其应对策略远比传统生命周期/过程理论所预测的更为复杂和多样。个人、家庭、社区甚至国家层面的因素往往是相互交织的，更重要的是，这些影响的组合不断变化，有时会在他们的住房生涯中重复形成一种微妙的动力，而现有的研究在很大程度上忽视了这一点。