Housing provides shelter, in a variety of forms, but it is also resonant with meaning on many other levels--as a financial asset, a status symbol, an expression

This in-depth study of 2,801 U.S. households is the first comprehensive examination of contemporary American housing preferences.

First published in Washington by the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties in 1980.

This in-depth study of 2,801 U.S. households is the first comprehensive examination of contemporary American housing preferences.