Doctoral Dissertation Research: Housing Costs and the Residential Mobility of Middle-Income Renters

博士论文研究：住房成本和中等收入租房者的住房流动性

• 批准号: 1757630
• 负责人: Mei-Po Kwan
• 金额: $ 1.28万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-04-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1757630&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Housing; Costs

This doctoral dissertation research project will examine how middle-income renters make residential decisions in high-cost cities. This project will focus on the impacts of increased housing costs on middle-income renters and how their perceptions of housing cost change and their experiences of neighborhood change impact their decisions to move or not move. This project will contribute to a growing body of scholarly literature regarding neighborhood change and residential mobility. It will increase basic understanding of population dynamics in urban areas by examining and the reasons that middle-income residents move in a changing city. Because this project will identify the specific factors that influence residential mobility or immobility in middle-income renters, project findings will enable policymakers and housing developers to better understand and serve the needs of middle-income residents in competitive housing markets and will facilitate development of more effective policy interventions aimed at middle-income residents. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.Many urban areas in the United States have high and increasing housing costs. In the ten years following the 2008 global financial crisis, the number of renters in the United States has increased in every income group, indicating that households who previously would have owned their homes now are renting. The doctoral student conducting this research project will address two specific sets of research questions: (1) How are new housing development, commodification of housing, and increased housing prices related to the spatial distribution of middle-income residents and middle-income affordable rentals? (2) How do housing costs affect middle-income renters' perceptions of housing affordability, provide information about their decisions to move or stay, and impact their experience of neighborhood change? The student will employ a mix of research methods to answer these questions. She will address the first question by analyzing census data to identify spatial relationships between housing investments and middle-income residential locations, she will develop a hedonic model of where middle-income affordable rentals are likely to be. Geographically weighted regression will be used to analyze the geography of the relationship between investment and middle-income locations. The student will address the second question using geo-narratives of residential histories to analyze the spatially and temporally specific reasons for household residential histories. Semi-structured interviews with middle-income residents will provide insights into where they have lived, why they moved or did not move, and how they make sense of the broader processes of housing commodification, investment, and gentrification in their own residential experiences. This study will investigate these questions through a case study in New York City, a high-cost U.S. city, but the findings will be applicable to other high-cost of living metropolitan areas in the United States.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个博士论文研究项目将研究中等收入的租房者如何在高成本城市做出居住决定。本项目将重点关注住房成本增加对中等收入租房者的影响，以及他们对住房成本变化的看法和他们对社区变化的体验如何影响他们搬家或不搬家的决定。该项目将为社区变化和居民流动的学术文献做出贡献。它将通过研究中等收入居民在变化的城市中迁移的原因，增加对城市地区人口动态的基本了解。由于本项目将确定影响中等收入租房者住房流动性或不流动性的具体因素，项目研究结果将使政策制定者和住房开发商能够更好地了解和服务竞争激烈的住房市场中中等收入居民的需求，并将促进针对中等收入居民制定更有效的政策干预措施。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究生涯。美国许多城市地区的住房成本很高，而且还在不断上升。在2008年全球金融危机之后的十年里，美国每个收入群体的租房人数都有所增加，这表明以前拥有自己住房的家庭现在都在租房。进行该研究项目的博士生将解决两组具体的研究问题：(1)新住房开发、住房商品化和房价上涨与中等收入居民和中等收入可负担租金的空间分布有何关系？(2)住房成本如何影响中等收入租房者对住房负担能力的认知，为他们决定搬家或留下提供信息，并影响他们对社区变化的体验？学生将运用多种研究方法来回答这些问题。她将通过分析人口普查数据来解决第一个问题，以确定住房投资和中等收入住宅地点之间的空间关系，她将开发一个享乐模型，说明中等收入的可负担租金可能在哪里。地理加权回归将用于分析投资与中等收入地区之间的地理关系。学生将使用居住历史的地理叙事来解决第二个问题，以分析家庭居住历史在空间和时间上的具体原因。对中等收入居民的半结构化访谈将提供他们住在哪里的见解，他们为什么搬家或不搬家，以及他们如何在自己的居住经历中理解住房商品化、投资和中产阶级化的更广泛过程。本研究将通过美国高成本城市纽约市的案例研究来调查这些问题，但研究结果将适用于美国其他高生活成本的大都市地区。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。