Housing as if People Matter: Analyzing the Impact of Interpersonal Interaction and Increased Familiarity on Housing-Related Decision-Making in the Old West End Neighborhood of Danville, Virginia

Hearne, Joshua

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Housing as if People Matter: Analyzing the Impact of Interpersonal Interaction and Increased Familiarity on Housing-Related Decision-Making in the Old West End Neighborhood of Danville, Virginia

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Hearne, Joshua. Housing As If People Matter: Analyzing the Impact of Interpersonal Interaction and Increased Familiarity On Housing-related Decision-making In the Old West End Neighborhood of Danville, Virginia. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/74b68797-5414-4fa9-928e-226a75d69572?q=2019.

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H. Joshua. Housing as if People Matter: Analyzing the Impact of Interpersonal Interaction and Increased Familiarity on Housing-Related Decision-Making in the Old West End Neighborhood of Danville, Virginia. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/74b68797-5414-4fa9-928e-226a75d69572?q=2019

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Hearne, Joshua. Housing As If People Matter: Analyzing the Impact of Interpersonal Interaction and Increased Familiarity On Housing-Related Decision-Making In the Old West End Neighborhood of Danville, Virginia. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/74b68797-5414-4fa9-928e-226a75d69572?q=2019.

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Hearne, Joshua

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Church and community

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Abstract

This project explores the degree that a deeper level of familiarity between diverse persons has an impact on the way they think about housing-related priorities and factors. More specifically, it analyzes how both insiders and outsiders to a particular neighborhood (the Old West End in Danville, Virginia) think about housing in the context of a particular neighborhood both before and after getting to know each other over the course of a series of meals.In establishing its context and ideological foundation, this project considers the history of housing policy in the United States in light of the work of E. F. Schumacher and John M. Perkins. By applying both Schumacher’s person-focused economic principles and Perkins’ philosophy of community development as a lens through which to consider housing-related decision-making, the project explores a philosophy of housing-related decision-making that is both person-focused and rooted in Jewish and Christian scripture and theology.This project uses two instruments to gather data before and after a set of meals including both free and guided conversation. The first asks participants to rank a set of fourteen housing-related decision-making factors from most important to least important. The second is an interview including questions designed to gather each participant’s latent and manifest values related to housing as well as what they perceive to be the assets and challenges of the neighborhood. Administering the same instruments before and after the meals and conversations produced data about how priorities, values, perceived assets, and perceived challenges converged and diverged among participants from before to after the meals.The data demonstrates that interpersonal contact and increased familiarity produce some convergence of opinion on matters discussed at some length during the meals as well as producing an overall increase in participant confidence as to the relative importance of some housing-related decision-making factors.

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