Wubshet BerhanuLissanework Sileshi Alemu2025-08-192025-08-192025-05-01https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/7048Although households often evaluate, develop feelings and modify their housing, leading to decline or improvement of neighborhoods, comprehensive studies linking residential environment, satisfaction, and adjustment remain underexplored globally and scares in Ethiopia. This study addresses this gap by examining the relationship among socio-spatial housing attribute, residential satisfaction and adjustment intention among cost-efficient condominium housing residents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Employing a quantitative research approach, data was collected from 400 households using stratified random sampling; and analyzed by descriptive statistics, stepwise multiple linear regression, binary logistic regression and PROCESS macro for SPSS. The findings reveal moderate overall residential satisfaction level, with relatively higher satisfaction associated with the social environment and neighborhood facilities. The results also affirm the application of actual-aspiration gap theory in understanding of residential satisfaction and adjustment. Significant predictors of residential satisfaction and adjustment include socio spatial aspects such as number of rooms, common services, housing location, social interactions, and crime level, alongside socio-demographic factors such as age, marriage, length of residence, household size, ownership and employment type. Moreover, results indicate that physical adjustment intentions, like housing and neighborhood modifications followed by residential mobility, are the most common intentions. Furthermore, residential satisfaction emerged as both direct and indirect mediating factor shaping these adjustment intentions. The study implies effective housing development consider socio-spatial aspects, actual-aspiration gaps, socio demographics and residential satisfaction. Housing policy and intervention recommendations include context sensitive, socio-demographic based, actual-aspiration grounded and bottom up urban housing like “massive small’ approach to improve housing in Addis Ababa, while encouraging further inquiry including multiple level, more variables, longitudinal data, qualitative approach and cross cultural contexts. Keywords: Actual-aspiration Gap, Addis Ababa, Condominium Housing, Residential Adjustment, Residential Satisfaction, Socio-spatial Attributes. Keywords: Actual-aspiration Gap, Addis Ababa, Condominium Housing, Residential Adjustment, Residential Satisfaction, Socio-spatial Attributes.enDissertation