The Impacts of Remittances, Residency Status and Financial Attachment on Housing Tenure for Mexican‐Heritage Americans: Inferences from a New Survey
基于一项新调查，分析墨西哥裔美国人的居留身份、汇款行为等因素如何影响其在美国的住房产权选择，发现公民身份增加购房概率，无身份则降低，汇款回墨西哥者购房概率更低。
Immigration has and will continue to alter the composition of housing demand in the United Sates. In this article, we analyze results from a new survey of Mexican‐heritage households to draw some inferences about tenure choice within that group. Some measures of attachment to the United States—residency status and the amount of money sent to relatives and friends in Mexico—suggest that, among Mexican immigrants, permanence is a key determinant of homeownership in the United States. More specifically, being a citizen increased the probability of ownership, whereas being undocumented reduces the probability. Surprisingly, after controlling for residency status, length of tenure in the United States does not predict tenure status, except that those who refused to report length of tenure were more likely to have higher tenure status. Those who sent remittances home to Mexico were less likely to become homeowners.