%0 Thesis
%9 Master
%A Meer, Marije A. van der
%D 2023
%F theses_frw:4173
%P 50
%T Financial wealth and housing happiness
%U https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4173/
%X This paper offers insights into the relationship between net income, assets, or overall financial wealth, with housing happiness. To this end, information from the 2018 WoON questionnaire (N = 67,523), sourced from the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs, is analyzed using regression techniques. Controlling for demographic and housing characteristics such as ownership, age, urbanity, type of residence, financial wealth, and net income are found to positively associate with housing happiness. Furthermore, a positive asset balance, as opposed to being in debt, impacts housing happiness positively as well. This study’s findings call for future research to examine the influence of financials on housing happiness in countries with different income characteristics This research can be implemented by policymakers in new-to-build neighborhoods and renovations.