Sustainability and Displacement: Assessing the Spatial Pattern of Residential Moves Near Rail Transit [Brief]

As the construction and usage of rail transit proliferates in cities across the world, concerns abound about impacts on surrounding neighborhoods \u2013 including gentrification and displacement. Los Angeles County has seen a massive rail transit buildout going from zero to 93 stations along 6 lines in 25 years

Can Affordable Housing in Transit-Oriented Development Help Solve California’s Housing Crisis while also Addressing Environmental Goals?

There is growing interest in California to locate affordable housing in transitoriented development (TOD). This approach is offered as a solution to providing desperately needed affordable housing while also supporting the state’s interest to grow more compactly and reduce the amount of vehicle miles traveled. Other reasons offered for this approach include providing low-income residents increased access to job opportunities, lowering overall household transportation costs, and mitigating potential gentrification and displacement affects associated with TOD projects. While producing additional affordable units is vitally important unto itself, the assumptions regarding environmental sustainability benefits that underlie the linkage of affordable housing and TODs are not as straightforward as one would hope.This policy brief examines findings of a study on driving impacts and policy approaches for affordable housing in TODs.View the NCST Project Webpag

Affordable Housing in Transit-Oriented Developments: Impacts on Driving and Policy Approaches

This paper studies the intersection of policies promoting affordable housing, transit-oriented developments (TODs), and the reduction of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in metropolitan areas. In particular, this paper focuses on the following questions: 1. Does locating affordable units in TODs increase or decrease VMT and thus emissions? 2. Is affordable housing in TODs still affordable in the long-term, i.e., beyond the expiration of the first minimum affordability period? 3. Do the benefits of affordable housing near transit outweigh the frequently higher costs of development in TODs? 4. What policy recommendations emerge from the analysis?View the NCST Project Webpag

Can Affordable Housing in Transit-Oriented Development Help Solve California\u2019s Housing Crisis while also Addressing Environmental Goals? [Policy Brief]

This policy brief examines findings of a study on driving impacts and policy approaches for affordable housing in TODs

Do Rail Transit Stations Induce Displacement? [Policy Brief]

This research tests this perception by answering the following questions related to rail transit and household moves: Do rail transit stations affect residential move rates in surrounding neighborhoods? And, if so, then are lower income or long-term residents disproportionally displaced from the neighborhood