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作者

Afia Zubair Raja;Zubair Ali Raja

来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT,Vol.147,Issue1

语言

英文

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作者单位

Assistant Professor, School of Land Use & Environmental Change, Univ. of the Fraser Valley, 3851 Old Clayburn Rd., Abbotsford, BC, Canada V2S 4G9 (corresponding author). Email: [email protected]; [email protected];Assistant Teaching Professor, Dept. of Accounting & Finance, Thompson Rivers Univ., 183 White Shield Crescent, Kamloops, BC, Canada V2E 1H2. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-6461. Email: [email protected]

摘要

America's Housing Affordability definition classifies those households as stressed that spend more than 30% of their net income on housing. This paper challenges the traditional economic criteria-based approach that ignores the social and environmental parameters. Authors offer a geographical information science (GIS)-based Multicriteria Decision Analysis, selecting Corvallis, Oregon to prove the applied impact of the proposed methodology. Using experiential literature and interviews with specialists, the research establishes a comprehensive set of housing stress indicators including demographic, housing quality, and commuting time variables. Raster overlay and zonal statistics were deployed to obtain the final housing stress map. The strain was highest in the low-density single-family zone that contained dilapidated housing and longer commuting times, in contrast the stress was lowest for the mixed-use residential. GIS results were then used to make recommendations for affordable housing by channelizing favorable allocation of resources through spatially targeted efforts. This innovative method has a great potential to prioritize improvements based on the accumulated stress scores for each zone and contributes toward the improvements in understanding, examining, and measuring housing stress worldwide.