Why Build Affordable TOD? A Toolkit for Educating Residents about TODs and Housing in the Bay Area
The Bay Area is struggling with how to accommodate future growth--and looking to transit-oriented development (TOD) as a potential solution. Yet, existing research fails to address one of TOD's greatest barriers: the unwillingness of residents to support either transit investment or affordable housing construction in their communities. We will hold focus groups with residents in four communities with planned or proposed TODs to (a) learn about the arguments used against affordable housing around TOD and (b) figure out which approaches elicit the most positive resident responses. The project will culminate with a symposium on affordable housing and TOD for a more general audience of transportation practitioners to be held as a follow-on effort.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $32500.00
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Sponsor Organizations:
California Department of Transportation
1227 O Street
Sacramento, CA United States 95843Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Performing Organizations:
University of California Transportation Center (UCTC)
University of California, Berkeley
2614 Dwight Way, 2nd Floor
Berkeley, CA United States 94720-1782 -
Principal Investigators:
Chapple, Karen
- Start Date: 20080801
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20090731
- Source Data: RiP Project 20331
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: City planning; Public transit; Research projects; Residential location; Sustainable development; Transit operating agencies; Transit oriented development
- Uncontrolled Terms: Affordable housing
- Geographic Terms: San Francisco Bay Area
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01459691
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: University of California Transportation Center (UCTC)
- Files: UTC, RIP, USDOT, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jan 3 2013 1:10PM