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Do Affordable Housing Projects Harm Suburban Communities? Crime, Property Values, and Property Taxes in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey
Albright, Len; Derickson, Elizabeth S.; Massey, Douglas S. - 2013
surrounding communities. Feared consequences typically include increases in crime, decreases in property values, and increases in … use simple OLS regression to compare crime, property value, and property tax outcomes in Mt. Laurel to the outcomes in … housing development was not associated with increase crime, decreased property values, and increased taxes. To better …
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Natural amenities, neighborhood dynamics, and persistence in the spatial distribution of income
Lee, Sanghoon; Lin, Jeffrey - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449318
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Does suburbanization cause obesity?
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Ross, Amanda - 2014
In this paper, we examine the effect of suburbanization on obesity rates. Our study is an improvement over the existing …
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Black suburbanization and the evolution of spatial inequality since 1970
Bartik, Alexander W.; Mast, Evan - 2021
present three facts illustrating how this suburbanization has changed spatial inequality. First, suburbanization entirely … declines. Second, suburbanization accounts for over half of the increase in within-Black income segregation. Selective Black …
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Homeowner subsidies and suburban living : empirical evidence from a subsidy repeal
Daminger, Alexander - 2021
This paper documents effects of a homeownership subsidy's full repeal on the urban-rural residential location choice. First, I document the distribution of population across space for German labor market regions, using official NUTS-3 level population statistics. These labor market regions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602688
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Freeway revolts!
Brinkman, Jeffrey C.; Lin, Jeffrey - 2019
Freeway revolts were widespread protests across the U.S. following early urban Interstate construction in the mid-1950s. We present theory and evidence from panel data on neighborhoods and travel behavior to show that diminished quality of life from freeway disamenities inspired the revolts,...
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Freeway revolts!
Brinkman, Jeffrey C.; Lin, Jeffrey - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382142
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Shifting Settlement Patterns & Mismatched Resources : The Landscape of Immigrant Organizations in Urban & Suburban Philadelphia
Panchok-Berry, Andrea; Rivas, Alex R.; Murphy, Alexandra K. - 2013
Do urban or suburban neighborhoods provide greater access to organizations that offer immigrants needed services throughout various stages of the integration process? We pose this question in the face of historical shifts in immigration patterns: the bypassing of central cities for the suburbs...
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The Location of the Poor in a Metropolitan Area : Positive and Normative Analysis
De Bartolome, Charles; Ross, Stephen L. - 2003
We seek to explain the stylized fact that poor households form the majority in the inner city of most American metropolitan areas. Using numerical simulations, we show that (1) typically there exist two equilibria: One in which the poor form the majority in the inner city and the other in which...
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Kontinuität und Umbrüche im suburbanen Mosaik Sachsen-Anhalts : die Zukunft eines Wohnungsmarktsegments im demographischen Wandel
Friedrich, Klaus; Knabe, Susanne; Warner, Barbara - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015205525