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The spatial structure of housing affordability and the impact of public infrastructure

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  • Omar A. Guerrero
  • Stephen Law

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We develop a parsimonious agent-level model of the housing market that reproduces the spatial price structure of London at the level of each property. Prices emerge as agents make utility-driven choices on properties with specific attributes in decentralised market interactions. This specification facilitates matching individual households to specific properties, something not possible in most publicly available large-scale housing datasets. Because location is a feature of properties, we estimate the impact of the new Elizabeth Line that connects the city from east to west. Then, by combining household and property variables, we estimate its impact on affordability. Changes in affordability allow to foresee potential demographic changes across space. Such information is extremely valuable not only to households and developers, but also to planning authorities who wish to anticipate the future demand for services and test the viability of different local tax regimes.

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  • Omar A. Guerrero & Stephen Law, 2024. "The spatial structure of housing affordability and the impact of public infrastructure," Journal of Simulation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(6), pages 973-987, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjsmxx:v:18:y:2024:i:6:p:973-987
    DOI: 10.1080/17477778.2024.2325428
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