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Usually it\u2019s existing homeowners who are associated with blocking new lower income construction, due to fears that their property value could be affected, neighborhood aesthetics, or local protectionism. But a new study shows that renters in high-cost cities may hold that same NIMBYism\u2014not-in-my-back-yard\u2014mentality too.<\/p>\n
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Renters in high-rent cities are showing NIMBYism toward market-rate housing<\/a> at a level that matches homeowners, finds new research by Michael Hankinson at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. Hankinson examined attitudes toward new development in a new survey with more than 3,000 respondents, and then juxtaposed the data with a poll to more than 1,600 San Francisco residents.<\/p>\n
He found impressions changed due to the proximity and type of housing proposed. For example, affordable housing<\/a> proposed within a 2-minute walking distance was more unpopular than market-rate development two miles away. Notably, in high-rent cities renters objected to market-rate development at the same rate that homeowners did. Renters objected even though they showed strong support for increasing the city\u2019s housing supply.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe perceived threat from new neighborhood development was also linked to anxiety about rising housing prices and rent burdening\u201d\u2014paying large shares of income on rent)\u2014The Atlantic\u2019s CityLab reports on the study. \u201cThe prospect of displacement, it appears, is behind this tragedy of the commons.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: \u201cSan Francisco Is So Expensive Even Renters Can Be NIMBYs,\u201d The Atlantic CityLab (Feb. 9, 2017) and \u201cWhen Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism,\u201d Joint Center for Housing Studies (February 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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