Coordination of Public Transit Services and Investments with Affordable Housing Policies (2022) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Pages 18-34
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 18... ...
18 Literature Review We weave ourselves into the fabric of the community. If you go with our pillars of public transit, if you understand that this is about people, about making a difference in people's lives, that's what we are here to do.
|
From page 19... ...
Literature Review 19 Transit agencies and planners struggle to address the two often competing goals of providing service to attract new discretionary riders while striving to serve current users better (Walker 2012; Manaugh and El-Geneidy 2013)
|
From page 20... ...
20 Coordination of Public Transit Services and Investments with Affordable Housing Policies More recently, FTA has provided new funding opportunities through the 2021 Areas of Persistent Poverty program and the 2020 Helping Obtain Prosperity for Everyone program to specifically improve transit planning, public engagement, and service for those living in very low-income census tracts. A growing number of transit agencies have adopted TOD policies, with many including specific commitments to affordable housing (Reed 2019)
|
From page 21... ...
Literature Review 21 but require an upfront purchase price that may be financially out of reach for some, particularly if payment is due at the same time as rent (Harmony 2018; Lotshaw and Hovenkotter 2019)
|
From page 22... ...
22 Coordination of Public Transit Services and Investments with Affordable Housing Policies 3.3.b Transit Network Design Transit network design plays a critical role in the livelihoods of low-income individuals. Substandard access to employment is a large burden for low-income travelers.
|
From page 23... ...
Literature Review 23 decisions. Additional research can answer key questions and provide best practices.
|
From page 24... ...
24 Coordination of Public Transit Services and Investments with Affordable Housing Policies As more metropolitan regions experience escalating housing costs and increased congestion, many MPOs are explicitly including housing issues in their LRTPs. A requirement of the 2010 HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning grants was conducting a regional fair housing and equity assessment (FHEA)
|
From page 25... ...
Literature Review 25 transportation policies and planning in overcoming or reinforcing economic challenges for lowincome individuals. A growing body of research is emerging on equity and accessibility measures (Marcantonio and Karner 2016; Twaddell and Zgoda 2020; Cantilina et al.
|
From page 26... ...
26 Coordination of Public Transit Services and Investments with Affordable Housing Policies 3.4.b How Affordable Housing Planners Are Coordinating with Public Transit Within the housing sector, there is no federal requirement for regional planning, or a housing equivalent to the MPO. Planning activities and requirements for affordable housing and transportation remain voluntary and largely siloed between government agencies (Dawkins et al.
|
From page 27... ...
Literature Review 27 this linkage (Dawkins et al.
|
From page 28... ...
28 Coordination of Public Transit Services and Investments with Affordable Housing Policies poorly served by transit (Pendall et al. 2014; Dawkins et al.
|
From page 29... ...
Literature Review 29 inequities created for people of color, and for predominately Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous communities (Goetz et al. 2020; Patterson 2020; Spieler 2020)
|
From page 30... ...
30 Coordination of Public Transit Services and Investments with Affordable Housing Policies state and local policies that support low-income populations in TOD areas, and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has created a database and Livable Communities Index that also consider local and regional TOD policy, informed by research it conducted on state, regional, and local TOD policy adoption.
|
From page 31... ...
Literature Review 31 Over the past decade housing prices, rents, and construction costs have increased exponentially, rising at rates faster than average household incomes. In many markets, even households at 120% AMI or higher are financially stretched (Aurand et al.
|
From page 32... ...
32 Coordination of Public Transit Services and Investments with Affordable Housing Policies (Seifel Consulting and ICF International 2013)
|
From page 33... ...
Literature Review 33 More recent research on gentrification, displacement, and TOD finds stronger linkages and evidence that early warnings to prioritize preservation of existing affordable units and to include affordable housing within new TOD projects were not sufficiently heeded (Haughey and Sherriff 2010; Zuk and Carlton 2015; Zuk et al. 2018; Chapple and Loukaitou-Sideris 2019; Padeiro et al.
|
From page 34... ...
34 Coordination of Public Transit Services and Investments with Affordable Housing Policies Future research is also needed to provide greater clarity around transit's impact on different types of displacement, and on effective anti-displacement policies that transit agencies and MPOs can support given their extremely limited authorities on local land use and housing decisions. In scholarship on travel patterns and parking needs of TOD projects, greater research is needed to disaggregate information and focus on the specific needs and travel attitudes of affordable housing residents and families.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.