tigation Using Cycle 16 of the General Social Survey

In this paper we use the Aging and Social Support Survey (GSS16) and the theoretic-al conception of a ‘housing career ’ to identify the correlates of housing tenure (rent vs. own) among Canadians age 45 and over. We draw on primarily US literature to iso-late three general explanatory clusters (social support, health, and economic charac-teristics). Based on analyses using logistic regression, the results indicate that the major-ity of variation in housing tenure exists due to standard demographic and household characteristics. In fact, of the three focal explanatory clusters, only social support char-acteristics significantly enhance model fit beyond the baseline model, suggesting that the housing tenure of older Canadians hinges heavily on fairly standard characteristics