Multi-family housing development in suburban communities: Does it contribute to housing affordability and socioeconomic diversity?

IF 6.6 1区经济学 Q1 URBAN STUDIES

Cities Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2025.106035

Sungyop Kim , Dohyung Kim , Pauline Bekkers

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This study investigated the association between multi-family housing development and housing affordability and socioeconomic diversity at the census tract level in suburban communities in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim Metro Area in California. While the association in urban contexts has been well documented, this topic in suburbia is understudied. This study found that the lower the proportion of multi-family housing in 2010, the higher the increase in the proportion of multi-family housing between 2010 and 2019 in the study area. While reflecting the effect of California's housing policy on increasing multi-family housing stock, this study found that the increase in the proportion of multi-family housing was not statistically significantly associated with the changes in housing affordability and socioeconomic diversity in suburban neighborhoods. This may indicate that increasing multifamily housing does not necessarily mean affordable enough to attract population cohorts that increase the social mix in suburban communities. The findings of this paper will contribute to deepening the discussion about multi-family housing development and reinventing suburban communities in a more environmentally and socially sustainable way.

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郊区社区的多户住宅开发：它是否有助于住房负担能力和社会经济多样性？

本研究调查了加州洛杉矶-长滩-阿纳海姆都市区郊区人口普查区多户住宅开发与住房负担能力和社会经济多样性之间的关系。虽然在城市背景下的关联已被充分记录，但在郊区的这一主题尚未得到充分研究。本研究发现，研究区2010年多户住宅比例越低，2010 - 2019年多户住宅比例增幅越高。在反映加州住房政策对增加多户住房存量的影响的同时，本研究发现，多户住房比例的增加与郊区社区住房负担能力和社会经济多样性的变化没有统计学上的显著相关性。这可能表明，越来越多的多户住宅并不一定意味着负担得起，足以吸引增加郊区社区社会混合的人口群体。本文的研究结果将有助于深化关于多户住宅开发的讨论，并以更环保和社会可持续的方式重塑郊区社区。

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Cities URBAN STUDIES-

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11.20

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517

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