You Won't be My Neighbor
Opposition to High Density Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6404374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Trounstine (0000-0003-4364-2719, University of California, Merced, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 294-308 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10780874211065776 |
| OpenAlex | W4200333694 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 23 |
Virtually every city in the United States bans multifamily homes in at least some neighborhoods, and in many cities most residential land is restricted to single family homes. This is the case even though many metropolitan areas are facing skyrocketing housing costs and increased environmental degradation that could be alleviated by denser housing supply. Some scholars have argued that an unrepresentative set of vocal development opponents are the culprits behind this collective action failure. Yet, recent work suggests that opposition to density may be widespread. In this research note, I use a conjoint survey experiment to provide evidence that preferences for single-family development are ubiquitous. Across every demographic subgroup analyzed, respondents preferred single-family home developments by a wide margin. Relative to single family homes, apartments are viewed as decreasing property values, increasing crime rates, lowering school quality, increasing traffic, and decreasing desirability
Business · Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Land use · land values · Metropolitan area · Opposition (politics · Political science · Property value · Engineering · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Finance
“We need the right kind of people in this neighborhood”
Nimbys, Yimbys, and the Politics of Land Use in American Cities
Do local politicians share their constituents' attitudes on housing policy?
Why and who? Complaints against infill plans for 30 Gothenburg projects
Supply Skepticism Revisited
Tenant Organizing as a Pathway to Decoupling Wealth and Power
Understanding Latinx Perceptions of and Responses to Neighborhood Change
White Nimbyism and diversity close to home
Attitudes Toward Racial Outgroups During Gentrification
Debunking Nimby Myths Increases Support for Affordable Housing, Especially Near Respondents’ Homes
Justice in the streets? Towards a criminology of more-than-spatial justice
Political Architecture
Nuancing Nimbyism
What projects get built? The distinctive characteristics of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit projects in high-opportunity neighborhoods
Framing affordable housing
Why participation? Institutions and inequality in urban politics
Delivering suburban densification
How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records
Autonomy, zoning, and gentrification
Measuring Conflict in Local Politics
Politicians’ Neighborhoods
The financialization of housing and its political consequences
How budget trade‐offs undermine electoral incentives to build public housing
Public perceptions of for-profit and nonprofit affordable rental housing providers
Neoliberalism, Power, and Right to the City and the Urban Divide in Sydney, Australia
Current preferences and future demand for denser residential environments
The Geographic Determinants of Housing Supply
Segregation by Design
Local Land Use Regulation and the Chain of Exclusion
How Race and Class Stereotyping Shapes Attitudes Toward Affordable Housing
Neighborhood externality risk and the homeownership status of properties
Zoning and Property Taxation in a System of Local Governments
A New Measure of the Local Regulatory Environment for Housing Markets
Density Zoning and Class Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Neighborhood Defenders
Opposition to Housing
The Supply-Equity Trade-Off
Measuring Subgroup Preferences in Conjoint Experiments
Causal Inference in Conjoint Analysis
The Geography of Inequality
| Citations per year | 8.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |