Gentrification in the Inner City of Hamburg

Housing situation and reasons for moving. Perceived change in
residential area and attitude to these changes.

Topics: length of residence in house and in the current part of town;
earlier part of town; reasons for and against influx into the current
part of town; intent to move, reasons for leaving and activities for
house-hunting; general impression of part of town in comparison over
time; number of tenants in the building; age and social structure of
tenants as well as perceived changes in the last two years in the
building and the residential area; attitude to these changes; assumed
personal consequences from an increasing proportion of students and
groups sharing a residence or of well-payed people in the part of town;
perceived new facilities and reconstruction measures in pubs and
Restaurants in the last two years; attitude to these changes; opening
of new businesses in the residential area in the last two years; type
of businesses and earlier use of the premises as well as attitude to
these changes; type of heating; judgement on current apartment in
comparison to earlier apartment; advantages and disadvantages of
current apartment; current and earlier size of residence; number of
co-residents; remodelling in house or apartment as well as type of
measures carried out; individual hiring or conducting the work;
apartment owner; proportion of condominiums in building; time of
conversion to condominiums; assumed preference for certain groups of
persons by the landlord renting the apartment; information about
previous tenant of current apartment; monthly rent; number of rooms;
ages of co-residents; type and frequency of problems among the building
residents; preferred and actual neighborhood relations; attitude to the
Gentrification process (scale).

Demography: year of birth; sex; marital status; household type;
highest education degree; current and earlier employment; occupational
position of respondent; earlier occupation of respondent and his
partner; number of income recipients in household; monthly net
household income.

Interviewer rating: age of building; degree of modernization of
building; date of interview; length of interview.