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Market Rental Housing Affordability and Rapid Transit Catchments: Application of a New Measure in Canada

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  • Nick Revington
  • Craig Townsend

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In high-income cities, the availability of affordable rental housing in locations served by fast and frequent public transportation enables low-income households access to more opportunities, including jobs, without the costs of owning and operating automobiles. This study operationalizes a residual income approach to identify market rental housing that is affordable to two household configurations (couples with children and couples without children) in two categories below the median income. The study is carried out on Canada’s least and most expensive major metropolitan housing markets, Montreal and Vancouver. In addition to spatially disaggregating the results into inside and outside rapid transit walking catchments, the results are spatially disaggregated into four zones (Urban Core, Inner City, Inner Suburbs, and Outer Suburbs). Implications of the uneven distribution of affordable rentals with respect to transit access are discussed.

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  • Nick Revington & Craig Townsend, 2016. "Market Rental Housing Affordability and Rapid Transit Catchments: Application of a New Measure in Canada," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(4-5), pages 864-886, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:26:y:2016:i:4-5:p:864-886
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2015.1096805
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    1. Dilmaghani, Maryam & Dean, Jason, 2020. "Sexual orientation and homeownership in Canada," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(C).
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    5. Jingfeng Yuan & Xiaodan Zheng & Jia You & Mirosław J. Skibniewski, 2017. "Identifying Critical Factors Influencing the Rents of Public Rental Housing Delivery by PPPs: The Case of Nanjing," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(3), pages 1-22, February.
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    7. Mathieu Dufour & Vivian Labrie & Simon Tremblay-Pepin, 2021. "Using the Market Basket Measure to Discuss Income Inequality from the Perspective of Basic Needs," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 155(2), pages 455-478, June.

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