Spatial Distributions of Job Accessibility, Housing Rents, and Poverty in Nairobi, Kenya

Nakamura, Shohei; Avner, Paolo

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-8654

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“…Distance from the city center has a positive association with matatu use and a negative association with walk commuting, but little relationship with whether an adult commutes at all. This contrasts somewhat with findings reported by Nakamura and Avner [35] that job access declines dramatically with distance from the city center in Nairobi unless car access is available.…”

Section: Multivariate Results: Commute Status and Commute Modecontrasting

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Commuting in Urban Kenya: Unpacking Travel Demand in Large and Small Kenyan Cities

Salon

Gulyani

2019

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In Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, streets are regularly gridlocked. While it is clear that roads are congested at peak hours, it is not known which commuters are experiencing that congestion or what their commute times actually are. Even less is known about commuting patterns in other Kenyan cities. This paper contributes new evidence on commuting from a survey of 14,580 households, conducted in 15 Kenyan cities in 2013. Walking and matatus—privately-operated paratransit—account for 89% of all adult commuting in urban Kenya. As cities increase in size, the proportion relying on walking falls and matatu use increases. Within a city, commuters with higher income and education, and those living further from the city center, are more likely to use matatus rather than walk. Commute times are surprisingly short. In smaller Kenyan cities the median commute time is just 20 min. In Nairobi, the median commute time is 30 min, and only 5% of those surveyed reported commuting an hour or longer. These data paint a remarkably sustainable picture of urban travel patterns in Kenya. As incomes, education levels, and demand for motorized travel rise, the challenge will be to expand and improve the system while maintaining its sustainability.

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Section: Multivariate Results: Commute Status and Commute Modecontrasting

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Commuting in Urban Kenya: Unpacking Travel Demand in Large and Small Kenyan Cities

Salon

Gulyani

2019

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“…In theory, Nairobi-born household heads should have greater access to educational opportunities and labour market opportunities [53]. However, the survey again found considerable similarities between the two groups.…”

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Migration, Rural–Urban Connectivity, and Food Remittances in Kenya

2021

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This paper draws on data from a representative city-wide household food security survey of Nairobi conducted in 2017 to examine the importance of food remitting to households in contemporary Nairobi. The first section of the paper provides an overview of the urbanization and rapid growth of Nairobi, which has led to growing socio-economic inequality, precarious livelihoods for the majority, and growing food insecurity, as context for the more detailed empirical analysis of food security and food remittances that follows. It is followed by a description of the survey methodology and sections analyzing the differences between migrant and non-migrant households in Nairobi. Attention then turns to the phenomenon of food remitting, showing that over 50% of surveyed households in the city had received food remittances in the previous year. The paper then uses multivariate logistic regression to identify the relationship between Nairobi household characteristics and the probability of receiving food remittances from rural areas. The findings suggest that there are exceptions to the standard migration and poverty-driven explanatory model of the drivers of rural–urban food remitting and that greater attention should be paid to other motivations for maintaining rural–urban connectivity in Africa.

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“…Municipalities with higher unemployment have a negative impact on housing values [33], while unemployment seems to slow the growth rate of home prices across segments [34]. Moreover, areas with good job opportunities tend to have better housing quality and living conditions, implying that job accessibility is valued in the housing markets [35]. Agnew and Lyons [36] show that the increase in jobs caused by foreign direct investment in Ireland had an aggregate effect of over 1% in home prices.…”

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Effect of Hierarchical Parish System on Portuguese Housing Rents

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Mello-Sampayo

2021

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This manuscript analyzes an inter-parish housing rents gradient with respect to surrounding parishes. Using data on housing rents for 4049 Portuguese parishes in 278 municipalities, the paper explores the spatial patterns of housing rents using the geographically weighted regression (GWR) methodology. The housing rents can be explained by socio-economic factors comprising the effects of unemployment, sustainability, social diversity, elderly dependency, and population density. The proportion of overcrowded dwellings reflecting how poor living conditions affect housing rents was also included in the spatial analysis. On the structural side, characteristics of the dwellings were also included such as the area of the home and the number of other homes available in the parishes. Locational factors reflect households’ valuation for access to other parishes. In order to capture location characteristics, besides considering mobility within municipalities, the GWR allowed using distances to nearby parishes, i.e., parish hierarchy distance effect. The results suggest that the Portuguese rental housing market exhibits a heterogeneous pattern across the territory, displaying spatial variability and a hierarchical space pattern as a consequence of its locational attributes.

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Spatial Distributions of Job Accessibility, Housing Rents, and Poverty in Nairobi, Kenya

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Commuting in Urban Kenya: Unpacking Travel Demand in Large and Small Kenyan Cities

Commuting in Urban Kenya: Unpacking Travel Demand in Large and Small Kenyan Cities

Migration, Rural–Urban Connectivity, and Food Remittances in Kenya

Effect of Hierarchical Parish System on Portuguese Housing Rents

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