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作者

William Riggs;Menka Sethi;Wesley L. Meares;David Batstone

来源

HOUSING STUDIES,Vol.,Issue

语言

英文

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作者单位

School of Management, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA ;City and Regional Planning, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA ;Department of Social Sciences, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA ;School of Management, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

摘要

Abstract Increasingly large cities find themselves with a scarcity of affordable housing stock and cannot increase inventory quickly enough to meet urban growth trends. Some limitations include, lot size, regulatory barriers as well as environmental concerns. We focus on these barriers, first providing a background on these trends in the United States and then offering cases of how these opportunities might be applied as supply-side solutions to housing market demands, specifically using prefab technology for the micro-unit typology. We then use a proforma-based approach to model the impacts of this combination. We find that combining prefabricated or modular technology with small unit design can be effective in increasing affordable housing production across markets, and that addressing limitations with zoning and providing additional financial tools can accelerate this trend.