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.