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Title: Doubling up, Sharing, and Housing Affordability

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2020

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Abstract: Shared housing is a symptom of a housing affordability problem. Sharing, co-residence, and doubling-up all describe non-nuclear living arrangements and household adaptations to housing market conditions. Employing three conventional measures of housing affordability, I find that decreases in the affordability of housing increase individuals’ odds of sharing by 2%. My findings confirm that housing affordability is relevant in individuals’ decision to share. At the same time, my research sheds doubt on the reliability of conventional measures of affordability as the effects on sharing are marginal.

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Authors: Hwang, Siyoung

Institution: Tufts University

Department: Economics

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Pages: 1-57

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Land Use/Urban Organization

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