Methods for countering spatial inequality: Incorporating strategic opportunities for housing preservation into transit-oriented development Check for planning

摘要

Cities across the U.S. are promoting more compact and connected forms of development as part of a broader effort to create more environmentally and fiscally sound development patterns, under the banner of sustain ability. In many fast growing cities, such efforts have had the unintended consequence of fostering redevelopment of currently affordable rental housing in central locations, thus further limiting access to these locations for low-income households and contributing to new patterns of economic and racial segregation. Integrating equity concerns into sustainability planning has proven difficult. Advocates have relied on a variety of measures to assess the average vulnerability to displacement, transit access, and housing and transportation costs facing households of various types across neighborhoods. We propose a more locally grounded approach that estimates the potential loss of affordable rental units and values transit for the access to employment it provides low-income households in particular locations vulnerable to redevelopment, thus making tangible the overlap between social equity and environmental goals.