Low-income housing in high-amenity areas: Long-run effects on residential development

Paul Thorsnes; William R J Alexander; David Kidson

doi:10.1177/0042098014528999

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Low-income housing in high-amenity areas: Long-run effects on residential development

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Low-income housing in high-amenity areas: Long-run effects on residential development

Paul Thorsnes, William R J Alexander and David Kidson

Urban Studies, Vol.52(2), pp.261-278

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098014528999

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environmental amenities

gentrification

hedonic house values

public housing

residential land development

Centre-left governments from the 1940s into the 1970s developed several large areas in the urban fringe of Dunedin, New Zealand, for low-density, mostly single-family public rental housing. The public housing in these areas is now accessible, well-endowed with natural amenities, and allocated to very low-income households. Analysis of the spatial variation in natural amenities with that of household incomes and house characteristics suggests large-scale effects of the public housing developments: diversion of higher-income housing to other suburban areas and possibly maintenance of older high-quality housing in central areas. Interestingly, centre-right governments may have opened the door to market forces by encouraging tenants to purchase their public rental house. We find evidence that recent general increases in house prices have encouraged relatively high-income households to purchase ex-state rentals in these high natural amenity areas

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Title: Low-income housing in high-amenity areas: Long-run effects on residential development
Authors: Paul Thorsnes (Author) - University of Otago, New Zealand
William R J Alexander (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
David Kidson (Author) - New Zealand Treasury, New Zealand
Publication details: Urban Studies, Vol.52(2), pp.261-278
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
Date published: 2015
DOI: 10.1177/0042098014528999
ISSN: 0042-0980
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99447751102621
Output Type: Journal article

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