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Title: Reshaping Los Angeles Housing Affordability and Neighborhood Change
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: In this dissertation, I set out to lay an empirical foundation for understanding why the housing stock in the Los Angeles region has been constrained since the building boom of the 1980s, and why regional demand for housing has continued to grow over the period of the housing boom and bust. I measure the declines in number of housing units available on the market, arising from both reduced construction and reduced turnover. I also examine the sources of growth in potential demand for housing, from migration and from natural increases of the existing population. I then compare the consequences of the housing shortfall for different types of neighborhoods and for different groups of people by age, race, and education level. I build on filtering theory with new ideas about how to conceptualize and measure changes in housing supply and demand, and I introduce new techniques to analyze the connections between regional shifts in supply and demand and local changes in neighborhoods. By combining wellestablished filtering theory with innovative demographic methods, I find empirical evidence of the . . .
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Authors: Mawhorter, Sarah Louise
Institution: University of Southern California
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other
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