Metropolitics: A regional agenda for community and stability

Orfield, Myron

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“…Ensuring a low-wage jobs-housing fit might have a particularly substantial impact on GHG and air pollution emissions. Further, an imbalance in low-wage jobs and housing between particular jurisdictions can contribute to fiscal challenges and regional inequity (Miller, 2000;Orfield, 1997;Parlow, 2012;Rusk, 2003). This is because many low-wage jobs are in retail and restaurant industries that contribute substantial sales tax revenue to local jurisdictions, but affordable apartments and homes -which still create demand for local services but generate less tax revenue -can be a net fiscal drain on city coffers.…”

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Low-wage jobs-housing fit: identifying locations of affordable housing shortages

Benner

Karner

2016

Urban Geography

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Finding the right jobs-housing balance has long been an important concern for urban planners. More recently, attention has turned to jobs-housing fit -the extent to which housing price is well matched to local job quality. Prior analyses have been constrained by a lack of local data on job quality, making it difficult to identify the geography and scale of the problem. We introduce a new methodology for calculating the low-wage jobs-housing fit at both a jurisdiction and neighborhood scale that was designed in collaboration with affordable housing advocates and has been directly applied in urban planning and affordable housing policy efforts. Low-wage fit is particularly important because of ongoing difficulties with affordable housing provision and the disproportionate benefits of reducing transportation costs for low-income earners. We use the calculated metric at both a city and neighborhood scale to identify what can be learned from a low-wage jobshousing fit metric that is not evident in traditional measures of jobs-housing balance. In contrast to jobs-housing balance, the low-wage fit analysis clearly highlights those jurisdictions and neighborhoods where there is a substantial shortage of affordable housing in relation to the number of low-wage jobs. Because of the geographic coverage of the data sources used, the results can be widely applied across the United States by affordable housing advocates, land-use planners, and policy makers. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Low-wage jobs-housing fit: identifying locations of affordable housing shortages

Benner

Karner

2016

Urban Geography

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“…Downs (2005, p.370) complains that a sort of "disjointed incrementalism" is still "the overwhelmingly dominant method used in American metropolitan areas, mainly because there are very few effective regional bodies with the authority to influence where future growth will occur". A current emerging movement is the so-called 'new regionalism' (Wheeler, 2002;Orfield, 1997), which emphasises the role of the regional level in planning and governance systems. The Metro Portland case is recognised -with very few opponents (O'Toole, 2001) -as the leading experience in terms of managing the growth, thanks to a well-defined regional government structure, which rests on a real and proper elected body (Metro Portland, n.d.).…”

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Urban sprawl management, smart growth: challenges from the implementation phase

Trillo

2013

IJSSS

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Abstract:In the mid-90s in the USA, the smart growth movement emerged, promoting a blended approach to urban sprawl management. This paper aims to explore the potential of smart growth to contribute in the achievement of effective urban sprawl management. To do that, it investigates the incentive-based, regionally-led approach undertaken in the San Diego region. In this example, a regional comprehensive plan which embeds smart growth concepts is currently carried out by an association of governments (SANDAG). Although lacking in land-use powers, SANDAG rests on a wide range of incentives, which should encourage recalcitrant local authorities to put the regional plan forward. The paper concludes that an incentive-based approach can lead to very positive results. However, it can work even better in conjunction with a regulatory framework in order to fill some specific gaps which can occur during the implementation process of the plan. Biographical notes: Claudia Trillo received her PhD in Urban Design and is an experienced Consultant in Urban Planning. She is the Director of the Centre for Development Policies at the LUPT, University of Naples and the Director of the Fondazione Astengo, INU, Rome. As a Lecturer at the University of Ulster, UK, and a Fulbright Senior Researcher at San Diego State University, USA, she developed a wide range of research interests at international level, including smart growth, TODs, sustainable urban design and regeneration, community planning, transfer of development rights, local and regional development. She is currently involved in three EU research projects on sustainable urban regeneration, city safety and security and competitiveness of lagging behind regions. She is also an International Fellow at the SOBE, University of Salford. She employs a trans-scalar approach in order to interpret and manage the planning issues in the framework of the multi-layered governance system.

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“…Nationally, studies have shown that these suburban areas generally experienced a lack of population growth, diminished economic status of residents, an aging population and housing stock, and uncompetitive labor force in recent decades (Leigh and Lee 2005;Orfield 2002;Puentes and Warren 2006). These changes began to distress first-tier suburbs in 1970.…”

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“…At the local level, suburban political leaders need to figure out ways to cooperate, especially to address suburban decline (Katz 2000;Foster 2001;Rusk 1999;Orfield 2002). In the Baltimore case, confronting suburban decline depended on the willingness of various political actors in a single jurisdiction to address the problem.…”

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The Quest to Confront Suburban Decline

Vicino

2008

Urban Affairs Review

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The social and economic decline of first-tier suburbs has emerged as an important issue in metropolitan America, yet little is known about the political and policy responses to this problem. An analysis of Baltimore County demonstrates that the local government was able to implement revitalization projects from 1995 to 2005 since it had jurisdiction over its first-tier suburbs. Characteristics such as a large population in both first-tier and outer suburbs, an affluent tax base, and the lack of municipalities allowed Baltimore County to redistribute funds for these projects. I argue that if policymakers and planners are serious about confronting suburban decline, then either a regional growth boundary or a regional zoning tool is necessary to slow the pressures of urban decentralization. The political realities suggest that the will to maintain local autonomy is stronger than the will to eliminate the real barriers to revitalizing first-tier suburbs.

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Metropolitics: A regional agenda for community and stability

Cited by 205 publications

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Low-wage jobs-housing fit: identifying locations of affordable housing shortages

Low-wage jobs-housing fit: identifying locations of affordable housing shortages

Urban sprawl management, smart growth: challenges from the implementation phase

The Quest to Confront Suburban Decline

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