Affordable housing program tenants and their access to public transportation and employment

Park, Han John; Choi, Kwangyul

doi:10.1007/s10901-020-09796-8

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“…Previous studies on transit accessibility and housing affordability primarily focused on dense cities with robust transit networks, for example, recent studies of Baltimore ( 12 ), Chicago ( 48 ), San Diego ( 49 ), Orange County, California ( 50 ), and Houston ( 51 ). However, additional research on low-income populations living in lower-density heavily automobile-oriented cities, such as those in Tennessee, is needed.…”

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Evaluating Equity: A Method for Analyzing the Transit Accessibility of Affordable Housing Units

Guo

Brakewood

Hightower

et al. 2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Improving transit access for people in low-income communities is an important consideration for transit providers. However, there has only been a limited amount of research on the transit accessibility of affordable housing units. This paper aims to develop a method for evaluating the transit equity of existing affordable housing units and propose easy-to-implement modifications to local bus services to increase transit accessibility levels (assuming housing locations do not change in the short term). The proposed method has three steps, and it is applied to three cities in Tennessee with primarily bus-based transit systems. The first step measures the transit accessibility of specific affordable housing locations and citywide transit accessibility levels using a web-based platform built using open-source software. The second step evaluates the transit equity of affordable housing programs at the city level using Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients, and the transit equity of specific affordable housing locations by proposing a simple inequity index. The results reveal that the level of transit equity for affordable housing units differs across housing programs and cities. In the third step, an example of a modification to a local bus route is evaluated for one affordable housing location with a high inequity index to demonstrate the applicability of the method. The substantial increase in accessible jobs after modification, from 135 to 6,400, highlights the potential effectiveness of implementing short-term transit service changes to improve the accessibility of existing affordable housing locations. This three-step method primarily relies on open datasets that are also available for other regions in the U.S.A.

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Section: Background and Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating Equity: A Method for Analyzing the Transit Accessibility of Affordable Housing Units

Guo

Brakewood

Hightower

et al. 2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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“…The neighborhood environment is seen as the most significant indicator of residential contentment; this comprises estate management and service features, security and safety, proximity to the job, and social networks [11,33,46]. Available jobs determine neighborhood contentment [5,47], and longer work commutes are linked to dissatisfaction [7,10,48]. The effect of a workplace and residential geographical mismatch on low-income households has been called a "passive jobs-housing mismatch".…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Extended research demonstrates that Mining-Induced Displacements and Resettlements (MIDR) have not received as much scholarly attention as those associated with natural disasters, urban redevelopment, and hydropower development [1][2][3]. This is despite the fact that MIDR, due to the project cycle, causes more homelessness, social exclusion, unemployment, and health problems in the areas it affects [4,5] than other physical development projects, which hardly extends over time.…”

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Antecedents of Residential Satisfaction in Resettlement Housing in Ellembelle: A PLS-SEM Approach

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Compensation for land expropriation due to development projects such as mining is shifting from cash to physical assets like housing. Therefore, empirical studies are required to assess the residential satisfaction of project-affected families (PAFs) living in these houses and the factors which can enhance their satisfaction and quality of life in the long term. This study, therefore, assesses the antecedents of PAFs’ satisfaction with their current residence as an outcome of a mining-induced displacement and resettlement (MIDR) in Ellembelle, Ghana. The study adopted SPSS and PLS-SEM to assess the data retrieved from the heads or representatives of the PAFs. The study’s outcome reveals that the neighborhood environment plays the most significant role in predicting the PAFs’ satisfaction, followed by the public facilities and dwelling unit. The study has numerous implications for the resettlement stakeholders, housing policy, and mining development.

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Revisiting employer housing: driving forces and provision structures in the industrial society, and trends in the post-industrial society

Zhang,

Luo

2024

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Affordable housing program tenants and their access to public transportation and employment

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Evaluating Equity: A Method for Analyzing the Transit Accessibility of Affordable Housing Units

Evaluating Equity: A Method for Analyzing the Transit Accessibility of Affordable Housing Units

Antecedents of Residential Satisfaction in Resettlement Housing in Ellembelle: A PLS-SEM Approach

Revisiting employer housing: driving forces and provision structures in the industrial society, and trends in the post-industrial society

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