Does Sprawl Induce Affordable Housing?

Aurand, Andrew

doi:10.1111/grow.12024

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“…Aurand also found no evidence that urban sprawl increases the supply of affordable housing for low-income households (31).…”

Section: Sprawl and Housing Affordabilitymentioning

confidence: 93%

“…In contrast, Wassmer and Baass studied housing prices for 452 urbanized areas in the U.S. in 2000 and, after controlling for covariates, found that more-centralized urbanized areas have lower median home values and percentage of homes in an upper-end price category than sprawling areas (30). Aurand also found no evidence that urban sprawl increases the supply of affordable housing for low-income households (31).…”

Section: Sprawl and Housing Affordabilitymentioning

confidence: 97%

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Is Sprawl Affordable for Americans?

Hamidi

Ewing

2015

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Housing affordability has been one of the most persistent national concerns in the United States, mainly because housing costs are the biggest item in most household budgets. Urban sprawl has been proved by previous studies to be a driver of housing affordability. Previous studies, however, were structurally flawed because they considered only costs directly related to housing and ignored the transportation costs associated with a remote location. This study sought to determine whether, after transportation costs were taken into account, urban sprawl was still affordable for Americans. Multilevel modeling and the recently released location affordability indexes (LAIs) and metropolitan compactness indexes tested the relationship between sprawl and housing affordability. By controlling for covariates, this study found that in compact areas, the portion of household income spent on housing was greater but the portion of income spent on transportation was lower. Each 10% increase in a compactness score was associated with a 1.1% increase in housing costs and a 3.5% decrease in transportation costs relative to income. The combined cost of housing and transportation declined as the compactness score rose. As metropolitan compactness increased, transportation costs decreased faster than housing costs increased, creating a net decline in household costs. This is a novel finding, conditioned only on the quality of the data on which the LAI is based.

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“…Aurand also found no evidence that urban sprawl increases the supply of affordable housing for low-income households (31).…”

Section: Sprawl and Housing Affordabilitymentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Sprawl and Housing Affordabilitymentioning

confidence: 97%

Is Sprawl Affordable for Americans?

Hamidi

Ewing

2015

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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“…Most recently, Aurand (2013) analyzed the relationship between sprawl and affordable housing for very low-income households among 310 US metropolitan areas in 2010. He found that, after controlling for other metropolitan characteristics, the relationship between sprawl and the supply of affordable rental units for very low-income households, although positive, is not statistically significant.…”

Section: Housing Affordability and Racial Desegregationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Compactness versus Sprawl

Ewing

Hamidi

2015

Journal of Planning Literature

243

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In 1997, the Journal of the American Planning Association published a pair of point–counterpoint articles now listed by the American Planning Association as “classics” in the urban planning literature. In the first article, “Are Compact Cities Desirable?” Gordon and Richardson argued in favor of urban sprawl as a benign response to consumer preferences. In the counterpoint article, “Is Los Angeles-Style Sprawl Desirable?” Ewing argued for compact cities as an alternative to sprawl. It is time to reprise the debate. This article summarizes the literature on urban sprawl characteristics and measurements, causes, impacts, and remedies since the original debate.

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“…It is commonly recognized that controlled urban sprawl negatively impacts housing affordability. For instance, a greenbelt surrounding Seoul, South Korea prevented uncontrolled urban sprawl and caused the real estate prices in the inner city to soar (Dege, 2000), even though it is possible to make more housing affordable and available for low-income households (Aurand, 2013). Although sprawl and the supply of affordable housing are positively correlated for very low-income households in metropolitan areas, there is no evidence to suggest that controlled sprawl makes housing more affordable after controlling for other metropolitan characteristics are taken into account.…”

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Controlled urban sprawl in Auckland, New Zealand and its impacts on the natural environment and housing affordability

Gao

2021

Comput.Urban Sci.

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Auckland experienced phenomenal expansion since 1841. This study assesses the pace of urban sprawl and its control over the natural environment and housing affordability. After the urban built-up area was mapped, its change over time was detected, and correlated with population. From 1842 to 2014 built-up area in Auckland grew from 48 ha to 50,531 ha. The pace of growth was 151 ha/year during 1842–1945 but jumped to 989 ha per annum during 1975–2001. It dropped to only 249 ha per annum in this century. This unchecked sprawl is a direct response to population growth and facilitated by improved transportation. Since the late 1990s urban built-up areas experienced a subdued expansion despite continued population growth. This curtailed sprawl is attributed to the contentious planning regulations implemented to curtail sprawl. Consequently, population density rose to 28 persons/ha, the highest since a century ago. Urban growth has reduced biomass and green fields with mean vegetation index dropped from 129.5 to 118.7 during 2002–2014 with a smaller standard deviation, suggesting the landscape is increasingly homogenized. House prices rose slowly when the growth potential decreased slowly and vice versa (r = − 0.925) while the number of vacant sections suitable for single dwellings declined. Thus, controlled urban sprawl is largely responsible for the skyrocketed price of sections and declined housing affordability.

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Does Sprawl Induce Affordable Housing?

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

Is Sprawl Affordable for Americans?

Is Sprawl Affordable for Americans?

Compactness versus Sprawl

Controlled urban sprawl in Auckland, New Zealand and its impacts on the natural environment and housing affordability

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