Housing Values, Aspirations, and Satisfactions as Indicators of Housing Needs

The major purposes of this study were to identify the housing related values, aspirations, and satisfactions of a group of randomly selected low‐income rural residents living in private dwellings and a group of randomly selected low‐income urban residents living in public housing; and to explore the usefulness of Maslow's theory of human motivation to an understanding and assessment of human needs related to housing. The interpretation of the findings as they related to the Maslow framework suggested that the public housing units provided for the physiological needs of the residents, but that deficiencies in environmental factors such as location, community services, and social aspects of the milieu frustrated satisfaction of the higher order needs.