Wars, epidemics, and innovations have directly or indirectly affected the development of cities. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which has become today's global crisis, adds new practices to urban functions. The differentiation of the relationship between individuals and the city and the decrease in urban mobility change the preferences for housing and its surroundings and construct a new spatial pattern in the city. In many studies on the choice of residential area, the location of the house in the city, its cost, size, qualities, and the role of the quality of the urban environment come to the fore (Timmermans, 1984; Yirmibeşoğlu, 1997; Clark et al., 1994 etc.). However, the effects of household characteristics such as age, gender, income, education level, family size and life cycle on the choice of place of residence are among the research topics (Rossi, 1980; Beamish, 2001; Litman, 2009 etc.). This study examines the change in house location preferences during the COVID-19 process, through household surveys conducted by applying stratified sampling according to age groups in the context of four districts that make up the settled area of Samsun City, through the different socio-economic characteristics of households and the changing working order. Prior to Covid-19, the condition of "housing in a safe environment", which was in the first place for all users in housing location preferences, leaves its priority to the condition of "positioning the house close to health facilities" with the pandemic process, and the additional functions imposed by the new working order on housing use, changes the relationship between living and working spaces in the perspective of the location choice.

Keywords: Residential Location Choice; Covid-19; Household Characteristics; Samsun.