The legitimate reasons why items in a housing-concerns diagram are fewer than that in the theoretical framework (ALRA)

 The legitimate reasons why items in a housing-concerns diagram are fewer than that in the theoretical framework (ALRA) in housing studies dissertation works:

In the agile literature review approach (ALRA), the housing-concerns diagram takes stock of a set of related housing concerns items as a co-created output of the researcher and a few stakeholders in a case study. These housing concerns are the ones to be responded to intellectually as depicted in the corresponding theoretical framework (starting from level-0). The question is, what can be the legitimate reasons that the corresponding theoretical framework has fewer items that that of the housing-concerns diagram. Here, I offer two legitimate reasons: 

Reason 1. If two housing-concerns items belong to the same housing studies topic (e.g. deteriorating economic trends affecting the housing market), then the two housing-concerns items can be consolidated (maybe also with the expansionism rationale) to become one theoretical framework item. 

An example:

Housing-concern 1 [hc1]: concerned about the impact of increasing interest rate on the housing affordability situation facing the middle-class in Hong Kong

Housing-concern 2 [hc2]: concerned about the impact of increasing unemployment rate on the housing affordability situation facing the middle-class in Hong Kong

A corresponding consolidated theoretical framework item (item 2): to evaluate the worsening economic trend on the housing affordability situation facing the middle-class in Hong Kong. [note: in this example, the economic trend covers interest rate and unemployment rate trends, among others].

Reason 2: the housing concerns item (a clarifying housing-concerns item [chci]) appears in the housing-concerns diagram mainly to further clarify the nature of another significant housing-concerns item (a significant housing-concerns item [shci]). In this case the chci itself will not be directly transformed into a theoretical framework item in the theoretical framework.

An example:

Housing concern 1[hc1] [chci]: concerned about the impact of the weakening HKD on the interest rate movement in Hong Kong

Housing concern 2 [hc2] [shci]: concerned about the impact of the interest rate movement on the housing affordability situation facing the middle-class in Hong Kong.

In this case, HC1 [a chci] is not to be considered to produce a corresponding theoretical framework item for the theoretical framework level-0. HC1 mainly serves to  clarify the nature of HC2 in the housing-concerns diagram.