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Evaluating the Concept of Location Affordability: Recent Data on the Relationship Between Transportation, Housing, and Urban Form

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  • Ann M. Hartell

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The concept of location affordability holds that housing affordability should be augmented to include transportation cost as a related and substantial household cost burden. The recent United States foreclosure crisis of 2006–2008 offers an opportunity to evaluate location affordability as a concept for policy and practice by investigating the relationship between transportation cost burdens and negative housing outcomes. This article contributes to the growing literature on location affordability and the recent crisis with an analysis of default and foreclosure data for 70 metropolitan areas. The analysis includes transportation and housing cost burdens and demographic data, as well as multidimensional measures of urban form. High rates of automobility are associated with increased foreclosure. The urban form variables yield mixed results, suggesting the relationship between urban sprawl and affordability is complex. However, across a range of specifications, high levels of development intensity are associated with increased foreclosure rates. The results have implications for both the housing and transportation sectors and lend support for the notion of location affordability.

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  • Ann M. Hartell, 2017. "Evaluating the Concept of Location Affordability: Recent Data on the Relationship Between Transportation, Housing, and Urban Form," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(3), pages 356-371, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:27:y:2017:i:3:p:356-371
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2016.1220402
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    1. Giulio Mattioli & Jean-Pierre Nicolas & Carsten Gertz, 2018. "Editorial - Household transport costs, economic stress and energy vulnerability," Post-Print halshs-01672810, HAL.
    2. Jinat Jahan & Shima Hamidi, 2019. "A National Study on Transportation Affordability of HUD Housing Assistance Programs," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-17, December.

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