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Spatial polarization is increasing in urban neighborhoods worldwide, prompting substantial attention to its measurement. However, self-evaluations of spatial polarization by individual neighborhood residents have not been fully explored. To fill this gap, we proposed various socioeconomic indicators and incorporated them into a binomial logit model. We aimed to determine how individuals' perceptions of social status were influenced by neighborhood conditions by examining the significance of each variable and measuring its impact on self-evaluation. Thus, we gathered neighborhood data, including growing/declining neighborhood characteristics and respondents' personal attributes, from several national databases. We also collected data from 520 participants from Osaka City, Japan, via a questionnaire self-evaluating their social level and mobility. Our results highlight clear inequalities in social level and mobility self-evaluations between residents of different neighborhoods, as well as various characteristics of growing neighborhoods that positively influence these evaluations. Furthermore, positive effects of neighborhoods tended to correspond to residents with higher incomes, while negative effects tended to correspond to residents with lower incomes. However, as characteristics of both growing and declining neighborhoods were confirmed to be negative, this suggests that homogenization of neighborhood characteristics might negatively affect the self-evaluated spatial polarization among residents in both growing and declining neighborhoods. • The study clarified residents' self-evaluations of their social status and mobility in neighborhoods affected by spatial polarization. • The study identified several characteristics of growing neighborhoods that contribute to residents' positive self-evaluations. • Gentrification and socioeconomic differences impact the self-evaluation of urbanites. • The subjective living levels of residents are linked to neighborhood growth or decline due to gentrification. • Homogenization of neighborhood characteristics might negatively affect the self-evaluated spatial polarization among residents in both growing and declining neighborhoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term "housing ladder" refers to the phenomenon of people moving from one housing type to another according to changing demands of different life stages. This phenomenon is observed in many countries and is known as the Jutaku Sugoroku Paradigm in the Japanese context. This study aims to clarify whether adult children's access to homeownership might be affected by their parents' homeownership and their place of origin. Questionnaire Data from a survey across Japan's two largest metropolitan areas, Tokyo and Osaka, were analyzed by combining crosstabulations and a binomial logit model. The results revealed that individuals are more likely to attain homeownership if they come from a metropolitan area and if their home of origin is an owner-occupied house. These findings suggest that housing inequality is being passed on to the next generation by parents' homeownership status and residential location. Japanese housing policies that promote private ownership of housing may reinforce these inequalities. The study concludes that Japan experiences the same intergenerational transmission of housing inequality due to homeownership as other countries, whereas place of origin was an additional factor for homeownership in the Japanese context. • Inheritance of housing inequality in Japan has accelerated as global experiences. • Adult children's access to homeownership might be affected by their place of origin. • Peoples' access to homeownership might be affected by both their parents' homeownership and their place of origin. • Place of origin was an additional key factor for intergenerational transmission of housing inequality in Japan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]