Andrejs Skaburskis
Biographic Data
| ID | 309884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrejs Skaburskis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrejs |
| FAMILY NAME | Skaburskis |
| SIGNATURE | SKABURSKIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 277 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Expectations, preferences and satisfaction levels among new and long-term residents in a gentrifying Toronto neighbourhood
This study shows the remarkable similarity in the interests, motivations, perceptions and satisfaction levels of the long-term residents and the more recent arrivals in a gentrifying Toronto neighbourhood. The survey shows that long-term residents, mostly homeowners, welcome the changes and express their strong satisfaction with their neighbourhood and community. Gentrification did not create a large disparity between the established residents an…
Filtering and Gentrifying in Toronto: Neighbourhood Transitions in and out from the Lowest Income Decile between 1981 and 2006
This study examines the changes between 1981 and 2006 in Toronto's lowest income neighbourhoods. It shows the oldest buildings gentrifying while, contrary to filtering theory, the newer high-rise apartments in the inner suburbs built for a car-oriented middle class were filtering down to visible minorities, recent immigrants, ethnic minorities, single parents, and the unemployed or underemployed people in low-wage jobs. Nevertheless, the lowest i…
The Impact of Anthropogenic Heat on Formation of Urban Heat Island and Energy Consumption Balance
This paper investigates the impact of anthropogenic heat on formation of urban heat island (UHI) and also determines which factors can directly affect energy use in the city. It explores literally the conceptual framework of confliction between anthropogenic heat and urban structure, which produced UHI intensity and affected energy consumption balance. It then discusses how these two factors can be affected and gives implication to the city and t…
Public Spaces in Lithuanian Cities: Legacy of Dependence and Recent Tendencies
The object of discussion of the current paper is transformations of urban public spaces since Czarist Russia′s colonial rule up to the period after the restoration of Lithuania′s independence. While reviewing the transformations of public spaces (first and foremost squares) of the country′s larger cities, the authors noted that this field is distinguished by extremely contradictory tendencies: on one hand, we are dealing with the urban legacy of …
Public Housing Construction and the Cities: 1937–1967
Public housing advocates argue that the nation should expand the federal public housing program as part of an effort to increase the supply of affordable rental housing. This paper examines federal public housing construction in the largest US cities over the period 1937–1967, a period during which the public housing program was the primary program to provide low‐income households with affordable rental housing. Public housing is found to depend …
Gentrification and Toronto’s Changing Household Characteristics and Income Distribution
This study compares the changes in the household characteristics and income distributions of men and women in the Toronto census tracts that gentrified in the 1970s with the changes taking place across the metropolitan area. Higher-income women were gentrifiers from the beginning and lower-income men were more likely to be displaced. The factors driving gentrification are also transforming the rest of the metropolitan area, making the continuatio…
Workplace Restructuring and Urban Form: The Changing National Settlement Patterns of the Canadian Workforce
This article examines the relationship between emerging work arrangements and national settlement patterns. While growth is centralized in large cities, social commentators continue to suggest that workplace restructuring—facilitated by technological progress—encourages more dispersed settlement patterns, evoking concern about the environmental sustainability of the trend. Multivariate analysis using Canadian census data shows that with the excep…
The Globalization of Urban Housing Markets: Immigration and Changing Housing Demand in Vancouver
The effect of residential capital through immigration on the internal structure of cities and housing markets has become of increasing importance. This study examines the effects of immigration on Vancouver's residential housing market as the city became increasingly influenced by global processes and the arrival of skilled and wealthy migrants. The changing determinants of housing demand are analyzed for recent immigrants and the rest of the pop…
Gentrification in the Context of 'Risk Society
This paper looks at factors explaining gentrification using the neoclassical economic framework. The risk inherent in a move to a lower class neighbourhood is seen as a component of the rent gap that helps preserve working-class neighbourhoods until a tipping point is reached. The factors that affect risk perception and encourage gentrification are placed the context of Ulrich Beck's risk society. The 'reflexivity' attribute, the 'end of fate'-th…
The Probability of Single-family Dwelling Occupancy: Comparing Home Workers and Commuters in Canadian Cities
Changing socioeconomic conditions are increasing the flexible workforce, such as home workers that are believed to internalize the need for home-work space in their housing consumption. Analysis of census data in thirteen Canadian metropolitan areas shows that households where one or both maintainers work from home have a greater propensity to reside in larger single-family detached houses than comparable households with maintainers who commute t…
The Origin of “Wicked Problems
The attributes of “wicked problems” are so well known that we rarely talk about them these days. Moreover, speaking about the nature of “wicked problems” might be seen as a nostalgic quest for the
The Redistribution of Residential Property Values in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver: Examining Neoclassical and Marxist Views on Changing Investment Patterns
This study examines the changes in residential property value in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas by using shift-share and regression analysis with census tract data. The results show that the tracts that increased their share of the metropolitan areas' real estate value in one decade tend to lose that share during the next decade. After accounting for the effect of new additions, the main transfer of wealth is from the older suburban ri…
Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Article in Volume 25: “New Urbanism and Sprawl: A Toronto Case Study”
The Characteristics and Location of Home Workers in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver
This study analyses the distribution of home workers across the three largest urban regions in Canada and shows how they differ across sex of home worker, household type, income level, occupation and industry. The highest proportion of home workers is in art, culture and recreation occupations followed by management, the field dominated by men. Women home workers make the financial, secretarial and administrative occupations the third-largest gro…
New Urbanism and Sprawl: A Toronto Case Study
This article presents an approach that has not been previously used for assessing claims regarding a development's impact on urban form and sprawl. The analysis shows that the Cornell new urbanist development increases suburban densities but not by nearly as much as would be inferred by analysis that simply compares the density of the development with that of the surrounding conventional suburbs. Most households living in the higher-density build…
Filtering, City Change and the Supply of Low-priced Housing in Canada
This paper examines the filtering process and shows the extent of the forces that are gentrifying Canadian cities. The 1996 census micro data are used to develop rent- and price-age profiles of dwellings in each of Canada's census metropolitan areas. The analysis shows that the filtering process is both too slow and, at best, can have too small an effect to be a part of a government strategy for reducing the housing burdens of low-income people. …
Extent, Location and Profiles of Continuing Gentrification in Canadian Metropolitan Areas, 1981-2001
This study looks at the changes in 10 Canadian CMAs between 1981 and 2001 and builds on the work of other Canadian researchers to show how the extent, location and nature of gentrification processes have continued since the 1970s. The analysis of census data from 1981 and 2001 identifies gentrifying tracts and compares them with the neighbourhoods that are recognised by local housing market analysts as gentrifying and with the neighbourhoods that…
Canada's increasing housing affordability burdens
This study uses national survey and census data on shelter costs and income to describe changes in the proportion and the number of low‐income households spending more than half of their income on shelter. While affordability problems increased consistently over the last two decades for almost all classes of households, the problems are highly concentrated among those with low‐incomes. Women household maintainers are significantly more likely to …
Decomposing Canada's Growing Housing Affordability Problem: Do City Differences Matter
This article examines the role of eight factors that affect the prevalence and incidence of housing affordability problems: geography, demography, migration/immigration/ ethnicity, income recipients, income source, employment and education. It develops bivariate probit models that use the 1991 and 1996 Canadian census public use microdata to predict the joint probability that a household spends more than half of its income on housing and that its…
Pricing city form: Development cost charges and simulated markets
(2003). Pricing city form: development cost charges and simulated markets. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 18, No. 2-3, pp. 197-211
The Impact of Withdrawing Subsidies for New Rental Housing: Projections for Toronto and the Rest of Ontario
Senior governments in Canada are no longer subsidising new social housing. Instead, they rely on municipalities and encourage the development of new and innovative approaches to the housing problems of the poor. This study projects the magnitude of the rental stock additions that Ontario municipalities will have to produce over the next 25 years. The large 1991 census micro-data files are used to estimate the relevant parameters. The projections …
Modelling the Choice of Tenure and Building Type
A multinomial logistic (MNL) model and a naive nested logistic model are estimated to relate differences in household size, age, income and housing prices to differences in the choice of tenure and building type. The estimated models show that the demand for lower-density options decreases with a reduction in household size and increases with increasing age and real income. Higher rents increase the demand for owner-occupied single-family detache…
Gender Differences in Housing Demand
This study examines the effect of gender differences in household formation, tenure choice, housing expenditure and location in Vancouver and Toronto. It shows that the continuing increase in women's income prospects and career orientation will reduce family formation, fertility and divorce rates, and change housing demand in ways that will affect the growth and character of large Canadian cities. Without in-migration, the demand for rental housi…
Negotiating Development Charges in Ontario: Average Cost versus Marginal Cost Pricing of Services
This article attempts to determine how the interplay of stakeholders in a larger economic and political context influences the design of development charge regimes in particular jurisdictions. As a vehicle for this exploration, the authors pose the question: Why do so many municipalities adopt average cost approaches to calculating development charges when it is widely assumed that a marginal cost approach is superior from an infrastructure and l…
Race and Tenure in Toronto
The analysis of a number of Toronto sub-populations consistently points to differences in the home-ownership rates between visible minorities and whites. People of African or Caribbean origin have a much lower chance of being home-owners compared to whites after controlling for differences in income levels, housing preferences and household characteristics. Differences in tenure profiles are reduced at higher income levels but the home-ownership …
The Globalization of Urban Housing Markets: Immigration and Changing Housing Demand in Vancouver
The effect of residential capital through immigration on the internal structure of cities and housing markets has become of increasing importance. This study examines the effects of immigration on Vancouver's residential housing market as the city became increasingly influenced by global processes and the arrival of skilled and wealthy migrants. The changing determinants of housing demand are analyzed for recent immigrants and the rest of the pop…
Canada's increasing housing affordability burdens
This study uses national survey and census data on shelter costs and income to describe changes in the proportion and the number of low‐income households spending more than half of their income on shelter. While affordability problems increased consistently over the last two decades for almost all classes of households, the problems are highly concentrated among those with low‐incomes. Women household maintainers are significantly more likely to …
Extent, Location and Profiles of Continuing Gentrification in Canadian Metropolitan Areas, 1981-2001
This study looks at the changes in 10 Canadian CMAs between 1981 and 2001 and builds on the work of other Canadian researchers to show how the extent, location and nature of gentrification processes have continued since the 1970s. The analysis of census data from 1981 and 2001 identifies gentrifying tracts and compares them with the neighbourhoods that are recognised by local housing market analysts as gentrifying and with the neighbourhoods that…
Gender Differences in Housing Demand
This study examines the effect of gender differences in household formation, tenure choice, housing expenditure and location in Vancouver and Toronto. It shows that the continuing increase in women's income prospects and career orientation will reduce family formation, fertility and divorce rates, and change housing demand in ways that will affect the growth and character of large Canadian cities. Without in-migration, the demand for rental housi…
Filtering, City Change and the Supply of Low-priced Housing in Canada
This paper examines the filtering process and shows the extent of the forces that are gentrifying Canadian cities. The 1996 census micro data are used to develop rent- and price-age profiles of dwellings in each of Canada's census metropolitan areas. The analysis shows that the filtering process is both too slow and, at best, can have too small an effect to be a part of a government strategy for reducing the housing burdens of low-income people. …
The Characteristics and Location of Home Workers in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver
This study analyses the distribution of home workers across the three largest urban regions in Canada and shows how they differ across sex of home worker, household type, income level, occupation and industry. The highest proportion of home workers is in art, culture and recreation occupations followed by management, the field dominated by men. Women home workers make the financial, secretarial and administrative occupations the third-largest gro…
The Origin of “Wicked Problems
The attributes of “wicked problems” are so well known that we rarely talk about them these days. Moreover, speaking about the nature of “wicked problems” might be seen as a nostalgic quest for the
Race and Tenure in Toronto
The analysis of a number of Toronto sub-populations consistently points to differences in the home-ownership rates between visible minorities and whites. People of African or Caribbean origin have a much lower chance of being home-owners compared to whites after controlling for differences in income levels, housing preferences and household characteristics. Differences in tenure profiles are reduced at higher income levels but the home-ownership …
The Nature of Canadian Condominium Submarkets and Their Effect on the Evolving Urban Spatial Structure
The increase in the higher density homeownership options made possible by the introduction of the condominium tenure option can affect the environmental quality of inner-city neighbourhoods and increase the efficiency of the urban and regional spatial structure. The growth of the condominium sector contributes to social welfare by easing the household's transition through the life cycle-related changes in housing needs, by helping young household…
Expectations, preferences and satisfaction levels among new and long-term residents in a gentrifying Toronto neighbourhood
This study shows the remarkable similarity in the interests, motivations, perceptions and satisfaction levels of the long-term residents and the more recent arrivals in a gentrifying Toronto neighbourhood. The survey shows that long-term residents, mostly homeowners, welcome the changes and express their strong satisfaction with their neighbourhood and community. Gentrification did not create a large disparity between the established residents an…
Gentrification and Toronto’s Changing Household Characteristics and Income Distribution
This study compares the changes in the household characteristics and income distributions of men and women in the Toronto census tracts that gentrified in the 1970s with the changes taking place across the metropolitan area. Higher-income women were gentrifiers from the beginning and lower-income men were more likely to be displaced. The factors driving gentrification are also transforming the rest of the metropolitan area, making the continuatio…
Filtering and Gentrifying in Toronto: Neighbourhood Transitions in and out from the Lowest Income Decile between 1981 and 2006
This study examines the changes between 1981 and 2006 in Toronto's lowest income neighbourhoods. It shows the oldest buildings gentrifying while, contrary to filtering theory, the newer high-rise apartments in the inner suburbs built for a car-oriented middle class were filtering down to visible minorities, recent immigrants, ethnic minorities, single parents, and the unemployed or underemployed people in low-wage jobs. Nevertheless, the lowest i…
Workplace Restructuring and Urban Form: The Changing National Settlement Patterns of the Canadian Workforce
This article examines the relationship between emerging work arrangements and national settlement patterns. While growth is centralized in large cities, social commentators continue to suggest that workplace restructuring—facilitated by technological progress—encourages more dispersed settlement patterns, evoking concern about the environmental sustainability of the trend. Multivariate analysis using Canadian census data shows that with the excep…
The Probability of Single-family Dwelling Occupancy: Comparing Home Workers and Commuters in Canadian Cities
Changing socioeconomic conditions are increasing the flexible workforce, such as home workers that are believed to internalize the need for home-work space in their housing consumption. Analysis of census data in thirteen Canadian metropolitan areas shows that households where one or both maintainers work from home have a greater propensity to reside in larger single-family detached houses than comparable households with maintainers who commute t…
Modelling the Choice of Tenure and Building Type
A multinomial logistic (MNL) model and a naive nested logistic model are estimated to relate differences in household size, age, income and housing prices to differences in the choice of tenure and building type. The estimated models show that the demand for lower-density options decreases with a reduction in household size and increases with increasing age and real income. Higher rents increase the demand for owner-occupied single-family detache…
Inversions in Urban Density Gradients: A Brief Look at the Vancouver Metropolitan Area's Density Profile
This paper presents an estimate of the Vancouver metropolitan area's density profile to show the presence of density gradient inversions. A number of explanations for the inversions are offered and the policy implications of the explanations are briefly discussed
Decomposing Canada's Growing Housing Affordability Problem: Do City Differences Matter
This article examines the role of eight factors that affect the prevalence and incidence of housing affordability problems: geography, demography, migration/immigration/ ethnicity, income recipients, income source, employment and education. It develops bivariate probit models that use the 1991 and 1996 Canadian census public use microdata to predict the joint probability that a household spends more than half of its income on housing and that its…
An Empirical Estimation of the Price Effects of Development Impact Fees
Empirical analysis of the price of vacant lots sold in three Toronto suburban municipalities during the 1977-86 period shows that development impact fees directly increased lot prices by approximately 1.2 times the size of the fee. The extent of the increase was related to city growth rates. In general, the faster the rate of growth the lower was the price effect of development impact fees. The effects of growth, however, were not consistent acro…
The Redistribution of Residential Property Values in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver: Examining Neoclassical and Marxist Views on Changing Investment Patterns
This study examines the changes in residential property value in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas by using shift-share and regression analysis with census tract data. The results show that the tracts that increased their share of the metropolitan areas' real estate value in one decade tend to lose that share during the next decade. After accounting for the effect of new additions, the main transfer of wealth is from the older suburban ri…
New Urbanism and Sprawl: A Toronto Case Study
This article presents an approach that has not been previously used for assessing claims regarding a development's impact on urban form and sprawl. The analysis shows that the Cornell new urbanist development increases suburban densities but not by nearly as much as would be inferred by analysis that simply compares the density of the development with that of the surrounding conventional suburbs. Most households living in the higher-density build…
Determinants of Canadian Headship Rates
This article shows how regional differences in household formation relate to differences in income and housing prices. It presents an assessment of the effect of housing prices and income expectations on household formation decisions. Gender differences are revealed. Differences between spatial and temporal variation in headship rate changes are illustrated, along with the inappropriateness of using coefficients obtained through cross-sectional a…
The Impact of Withdrawing Subsidies for New Rental Housing: Projections for Toronto and the Rest of Ontario
Senior governments in Canada are no longer subsidising new social housing. Instead, they rely on municipalities and encourage the development of new and innovative approaches to the housing problems of the poor. This study projects the magnitude of the rental stock additions that Ontario municipalities will have to produce over the next 25 years. The large 1991 census micro-data files are used to estimate the relevant parameters. The projections …
Negotiating Development Charges in Ontario: Average Cost versus Marginal Cost Pricing of Services
This article attempts to determine how the interplay of stakeholders in a larger economic and political context influences the design of development charge regimes in particular jurisdictions. As a vehicle for this exploration, the authors pose the question: Why do so many municipalities adopt average cost approaches to calculating development charges when it is widely assumed that a marginal cost approach is superior from an infrastructure and l…
Gentrification in the Context of 'Risk Society
This paper looks at factors explaining gentrification using the neoclassical economic framework. The risk inherent in a move to a lower class neighbourhood is seen as a component of the rent gap that helps preserve working-class neighbourhoods until a tipping point is reached. The factors that affect risk perception and encourage gentrification are placed the context of Ulrich Beck's risk society. The 'reflexivity' attribute, the 'end of fate'-th…
Resisting the Allure of Large Projection Models
This article examines the value of developing large-scale projection models. Although its primary focus is on the methods that would integrate demographic and economic models to yield housing stock forecasts, the considerations can apply to large scale modeling efforts in general. A case study provides the context for practical considerations. Technical, theoretical, institutional, practical, ethical, and planning issues are considered. The insti…
Speculation and Housing Prices: A Study of Vancouver's Boom-Bust Cycle
The effect of short-term speculation on the stability of house prices is examined in this article. It describes speculative activity in the 1979-1981 Vancouver housing market. A series of regressions show that short-term speculators diminished rather than amplified price fluctuations. The dramatic swing in Vancouver's housing prices during the study period is explained by speculation on the part of all home buyers
Criteria for Compensating for the Impacts of Large Projects: The Impact of British Columbia's Revelstoke Dam on Local Government Services
Andrejs Skaburskis, Criteria for Compensating for the Impacts of Large Projects: The Impact of British Columbia's Revelstoke Dam on Local Government Services, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 668-686
The Nature of Canadian Condominium Submarkets and Their Effect on the Evolving Urban Spatial Structure
The increase in the higher density homeownership options made possible by the introduction of the condominium tenure option can affect the environmental quality of inner-city neighbourhoods and increase the efficiency of the urban and regional spatial structure. The growth of the condominium sector contributes to social welfare by easing the household's transition through the life cycle-related changes in housing needs, by helping young household…
Measuring Ontario's increasing housing affordability problem
Rental residential rehabilitation decisions
This study discusses the factors that encourage landlords to rehabilitate their buildings and shows the role played by the Canadian Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program (RRAP). The survey results show why some of the landlords proceed with their contemplated rehabilitation projects and why others drop their application and do the work on their own. The results describe the direct and indirect ways by which rehabilitation subsidies improv…
Inversions in Urban Density Gradients: A Brief Look at the Vancouver Metropolitan Area's Density Profile
This paper presents an estimate of the Vancouver metropolitan area's density profile to show the presence of density gradient inversions. A number of explanations for the inversions are offered and the policy implications of the explanations are briefly discussed
Impact Attenuation in Nonconflict Situations: The Price Effects of a Nuisance Land-Use
In this paper the effect an inactive landfill site had on the sales price of surrounding houses is described. The spatial extent of the damage done by a nuisance site that was present at the time the houses were built is considered. Evidence is provided of the limited extent of the damage created by a nuisance land-use that did not generate negative publicity and conflict. Indirectly, the findings show that impacts that do not evoke rancor or pre…
The Differential Impact of a Uniform Access Improvement
The neoclassical spatial equilibrium model of household behaviour is used to explain how a uniform improvement in the access surface of a region can have different impacts on the equilibrium locations of renters and homeowners. The differences in the households' propensities to move in response to an access improvement may explain the basis for some urban land-use conflicts
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
This article employs the concept of production functions to assess the cost effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation services. It presents a method of analysis that yields an evaluation of the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation services delivered to severely disabled clients as compared to the effectiveness of services delivered to others. The analysis reveals the difficulties inherent in evaluating service programs whose outcome is dep…
An Empirical Estimation of the Price Effects of Development Impact Fees
Empirical analysis of the price of vacant lots sold in three Toronto suburban municipalities during the 1977-86 period shows that development impact fees directly increased lot prices by approximately 1.2 times the size of the fee. The extent of the increase was related to city growth rates. In general, the faster the rate of growth the lower was the price effect of development impact fees. The effects of growth, however, were not consistent acro…
Determinants of Canadian Headship Rates
This article shows how regional differences in household formation relate to differences in income and housing prices. It presents an assessment of the effect of housing prices and income expectations on household formation decisions. Gender differences are revealed. Differences between spatial and temporal variation in headship rate changes are illustrated, along with the inappropriateness of using coefficients obtained through cross-sectional a…
Resisting the Allure of Large Projection Models
This article examines the value of developing large-scale projection models. Although its primary focus is on the methods that would integrate demographic and economic models to yield housing stock forecasts, the considerations can apply to large scale modeling efforts in general. A case study provides the context for practical considerations. Technical, theoretical, institutional, practical, ethical, and planning issues are considered. The insti…
Race and Tenure in Toronto
The analysis of a number of Toronto sub-populations consistently points to differences in the home-ownership rates between visible minorities and whites. People of African or Caribbean origin have a much lower chance of being home-owners compared to whites after controlling for differences in income levels, housing preferences and household characteristics. Differences in tenure profiles are reduced at higher income levels but the home-ownership …
Gender Differences in Housing Demand
This study examines the effect of gender differences in household formation, tenure choice, housing expenditure and location in Vancouver and Toronto. It shows that the continuing increase in women's income prospects and career orientation will reduce family formation, fertility and divorce rates, and change housing demand in ways that will affect the growth and character of large Canadian cities. Without in-migration, the demand for rental housi…
Negotiating Development Charges in Ontario: Average Cost versus Marginal Cost Pricing of Services
This article attempts to determine how the interplay of stakeholders in a larger economic and political context influences the design of development charge regimes in particular jurisdictions. As a vehicle for this exploration, the authors pose the question: Why do so many municipalities adopt average cost approaches to calculating development charges when it is widely assumed that a marginal cost approach is superior from an infrastructure and l…
Modelling the Choice of Tenure and Building Type
A multinomial logistic (MNL) model and a naive nested logistic model are estimated to relate differences in household size, age, income and housing prices to differences in the choice of tenure and building type. The estimated models show that the demand for lower-density options decreases with a reduction in household size and increases with increasing age and real income. Higher rents increase the demand for owner-occupied single-family detache…
The Impact of Withdrawing Subsidies for New Rental Housing: Projections for Toronto and the Rest of Ontario
Senior governments in Canada are no longer subsidising new social housing. Instead, they rely on municipalities and encourage the development of new and innovative approaches to the housing problems of the poor. This study projects the magnitude of the rental stock additions that Ontario municipalities will have to produce over the next 25 years. The large 1991 census micro-data files are used to estimate the relevant parameters. The projections …
Pricing city form: Development cost charges and simulated markets
(2003). Pricing city form: development cost charges and simulated markets. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 18, No. 2-3, pp. 197-211
Canada's increasing housing affordability burdens
This study uses national survey and census data on shelter costs and income to describe changes in the proportion and the number of low‐income households spending more than half of their income on shelter. While affordability problems increased consistently over the last two decades for almost all classes of households, the problems are highly concentrated among those with low‐incomes. Women household maintainers are significantly more likely to …
Decomposing Canada's Growing Housing Affordability Problem: Do City Differences Matter
This article examines the role of eight factors that affect the prevalence and incidence of housing affordability problems: geography, demography, migration/immigration/ ethnicity, income recipients, income source, employment and education. It develops bivariate probit models that use the 1991 and 1996 Canadian census public use microdata to predict the joint probability that a household spends more than half of its income on housing and that its…
Extent, Location and Profiles of Continuing Gentrification in Canadian Metropolitan Areas, 1981-2001
This study looks at the changes in 10 Canadian CMAs between 1981 and 2001 and builds on the work of other Canadian researchers to show how the extent, location and nature of gentrification processes have continued since the 1970s. The analysis of census data from 1981 and 2001 identifies gentrifying tracts and compares them with the neighbourhoods that are recognised by local housing market analysts as gentrifying and with the neighbourhoods that…
New Urbanism and Sprawl: A Toronto Case Study
This article presents an approach that has not been previously used for assessing claims regarding a development's impact on urban form and sprawl. The analysis shows that the Cornell new urbanist development increases suburban densities but not by nearly as much as would be inferred by analysis that simply compares the density of the development with that of the surrounding conventional suburbs. Most households living in the higher-density build…
Filtering, City Change and the Supply of Low-priced Housing in Canada
This paper examines the filtering process and shows the extent of the forces that are gentrifying Canadian cities. The 1996 census micro data are used to develop rent- and price-age profiles of dwellings in each of Canada's census metropolitan areas. The analysis shows that the filtering process is both too slow and, at best, can have too small an effect to be a part of a government strategy for reducing the housing burdens of low-income people. …
Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Article in Volume 25: “New Urbanism and Sprawl: A Toronto Case Study”
The Characteristics and Location of Home Workers in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver
This study analyses the distribution of home workers across the three largest urban regions in Canada and shows how they differ across sex of home worker, household type, income level, occupation and industry. The highest proportion of home workers is in art, culture and recreation occupations followed by management, the field dominated by men. Women home workers make the financial, secretarial and administrative occupations the third-largest gro…
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