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Exploring mismatch in within-metropolitan affordable housing in the United States

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  • Seungbeom Kang

    (Yonsei University, Republic of Korea)

  • Jae Sik Jeon

    (Konkuk University, Republic of Korea)

  • Whitney Airgood-Obrycki

    (Harvard University, USA)

Abstract

Despite numerous studies and measures that quantify the extent of the shortage in affordable housing for low-income renter households, few studies address potential neighbourhood-level mismatch between affordable housing supply and demand. To fill this research gap, this study investigates whether neighbourhood-level imbalance exists between the number of low-income renters and the number of rental units that are affordable and available to them within the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the USA. It also explores under which metropolitan-level conditions, such an imbalance (measured using the dissimilarity index between low-income renters and rental units affordable to them) is likely to be most severe. The study found that certain neighbourhoods within each metropolitan area contain rental unit surpluses affordable to a particular low-income group and such units substantially decline as the study considers the availability of these affordable stocks. Multivariate analyses reveal that certain metropolitan-level contexts contribute to the imbalance in affordable rental units across low-income groups. These findings imply that various efforts, such as reducing the mismatch between low-wage jobs and workers, providing affordable housing in suburban areas or relaxing local regulatory environments for residential development, may be effective in improving housing affordability imbalance across low-income groups at the local level.

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  • Seungbeom Kang & Jae Sik Jeon & Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, 2024. "Exploring mismatch in within-metropolitan affordable housing in the United States," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 61(2), pages 231-253, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:61:y:2024:i:2:p:231-253
    DOI: 10.1177/00420980231180490
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