Title:
How Has U+2 Enforcement Affected Housing Affordability in Fort Collins? Using the Synthetic Control Method to Analyze the Affordability Implications of Residential Occupancy Regulation
How Has U+2 Enforcement Affected Housing Affordability in Fort Collins? Using the Synthetic Control Method to Analyze the Affordability Implications of Residential Occupancy Regulation
| dc.contributor.author | Schlom, Ryan | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. School of City and Regional Planning | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-30T14:18:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-30T14:18:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In 2007, the City of Fort Collins began enforcing “U+2”, a residential occupancy restriction created in the 1960s which limited the number of unrelated persons who may cohabit legally. In a 2005 study, Corona Research estimated that 1,070 households were in violation of the ordinance. This study employs the synthetic control method (SCM) (Abadie and Gardeazabal 2003; Abadie et al 2010) to estimate the effect of enforcing U+2 on the cost of housing in Fort Collins, Colorado. The SCM is a data-driven comparative case study methodology which allows the researcher to estimate the impact of an intervention (such as U+2) on an outcome variable – in this case, the cost of housing. The results of this SCM are sensitive, but they indicate consistently that U+2 enforcement materially increased the cost of housing in Fort Collins following the beginning of its enforcement in 2007. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61340 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Fort Collins | en_US |
| dc.subject | U+2 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Housing demand | en_US |
| dc.subject | Housing prices | en_US |
| dc.title | How Has U+2 Enforcement Affected Housing Affordability in Fort Collins? Using the Synthetic Control Method to Analyze the Affordability Implications of Residential Occupancy Regulation | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Masters Project | |
| dc.type.genre | Applied Research Paper | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Design | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of City and Regional Planning | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Master's Projects | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | City and Regional Planning Graduate Program | |
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