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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Housing Values"”.
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The impact of hydraulic fracturing on housing values in Weld County, Colorado: a hedonic analysis
… air pollution, aesthetics, and hence property values. However, the increase in drilling activity has generated sizable gains in local employment and a subsequent increase in demand for housing. In spite of controversies, there is almost no research evaluating whether proximity and level of …
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Self-sufficiency programs in Hampton public housing
… in self-sufficiency programs in Hampton Public Housing and to explore relationships that might exist between participation in programs, demographic factors, and housing values. A theoretical framework was developed based on the human needs theory and an adaptation of the home values test. …
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Spatial Econometric Analysis of Property Values---the Impact of Sports Facilities on Local Residential Property Values
… to a sports facility on residential property values (housing prices) in the surrounding areas. The main empirical part estimates a spatial hedonic price model using a cross-sectional data set of 136 sports facilities in 44 major Metropolitan Statistical Areas from 1990 to 2000 at the census …
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Irrational market : facts and fiction behind affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area
This thesis explores the belief that affordable housing has a negative impact on surrounding housing values. Currently, the San Francisco Bay Area is experiencing a housing shortage. The results of this housing crunch are most acutely felt by low income families who can no longer afford to live in …
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Essays on Urban Resilience to Environmental and Health Risks
… maintenance creates a feedback loop: lower housing values and property tax revenues reduce fiscal capacity for levee maintenance, which increases levee failure risk and further depresses housing values. These feedback dynamics reinforce under-maintenance and perpetuate spatial inequality. …
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The Economic Impacts of Cougars in Western Washington
… For the purposes of this research, I employ a housing dataset for eleven counties in western Washington in order to quantify the impacts of a confirmed cougar sighting on the sale value of a home. Specifically, I employ the hedonic real estate price model. Results show statistically significant …
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Better Health for Whom: Exploring the Relationship Between Pedestrian-Oriented Zoning and Gentrification
… lead to increased neighborhood desirability and housing values, which is associated with gentrification. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, this research explores the relationship between POZ adoption and gentrification. Results suggest that POZ adoption is significantly associated with …
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The Determinants of Urban Land and Property Values: The Case of Rwanda
… The paper seeks to determine the factor of urban housing values and their effects on the well-being of urban residents in terms of access to potable water, quality sanitation and other housing amenities. The study uses a total of 36 variables on structural, environmental and neighborhood …
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UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF CHARTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS
… 1 evaluates the influence of charter schools on housing values. The dynamics between school quality and housing markets contribute to the isolation of disadvantaged students in low performing school districts. Charter schools reduce the link between residential location and school services, and …
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Industrial organization of housing supply : explaining spatial variation of home builder size in U.S.
The housing supply is affected by the market, regulation, land use, and capital. Research has revealed a strong variation between the supply sector and builders' behavior patterns. Understanding these variations will contribute not only to better performance of private homebuilders, but also to …
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Impacts of airports on the quality of life of surrounding communities
… were sought, but limited data was available. Housing transaction data was available at both low and middle spatial resolutions, and a beneficial impact of proximity to Heathrow Airport was observed at both levels. Counterfactual analysis found that the Heathrow Region performed better than …
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Topics in Hedonic Valuation
… these amenities are not priced, their monetary values are not directly apparent. As a result, Hedonic methods have been employed as a tool to recover household Marginal Willingness To Pay (MWTP) for these goods to inform policy-making given constrained public resources. This thesis consists of …
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Bayesian Modeling of a High Resolution Housing Price Index
Understanding how housing values evolve over time is important to consumers, real estate professionals, and policy makers. Existing methods for constructing housing indices are computed at a coarse spatial granularity, such as metropolitan regions. This coarse granularity does not have the …
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The power of equity : private motivations and public implications of dissolving affordable housing cooperatives
… most successful efforts to produce affordable housing in American history. By restricting the resale of shares and removing the housing from the open market, limited-equity co-ops allow for the long-term maintenance of housing affordability and make the benefits of homeownership accessible to …
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Disaster Diplomacy: The spatial impact of international reconstruction aid in the aftermath of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal
… impact of the aid community on the rent, land values, and infrastructural/amenity distribution within the wards of their operation. Second, I examine the impact of post-earthquake reconstruction projects leveraging international funding on urbanization patterns in the wards in which they are …
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Essays in public and urban economics
… using a unique administrative dataset on housing transactions in Tehran. I exploit a special feature of the tax code in the Tehran rental market where the tax-exemption threshold is based on the property’s size (square meters). Large bunching occurs below the tax cutoff, suggesting strong …
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The impact of oil-related pollution on housing satisfaction of Kuwaiti households
… by the oil fires on the socio-psychological values of housing and the cultural meanings of home and homeownership of Kuwaiti households. In 1994, a follow-up study was conducted to examine how time between the two studies and treatments of residential interiors and exteriors might have …
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Influence of Lifestyle on Housing Preferences of Multifamily Housing Residents
… the lifestyle concept rarely has been applied to housing studies. Although renting a multifamily dwelling is a non-normative housing choice in the United States, many people prefer to rent multifamily housing units for reasons other than financial. The purpose of this study is to identify the …
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Impacts of and willingness to pay for conservation and restoration in the U.S.
… examines the impact of urban tree plantings on housing values and neighborhood compositions. The third study of my dissertation analyzes the relationship between an individual’s childhood experience with nature and WTP for conservation in the context of grassland restoration using a choice …
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The Dream Defaulted: Foreclosure, Crisis, and Hope in Baltimore, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan
… in 2007 was defined by a severe crash in the housing market and the proliferation of mortgage foreclosures across the country. Foreclosures occurred in urban, suburban, and rural communities, but had a particularly devastating impact on larger, older cities and their low and moderate-income …
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