Author: Qian Wu
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Languages : en
Pages : 186
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CAMPO (Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization) is undergoing a revision of the regional transportation plan for Central Texas. The key goal of the plan is achieving sustainable development through integrating a multimodal transportation system with dense mixed land use. The CAMPO Plan has incorporated the growth management tool of jobs-housing balance to guide future land use development. To improve jobs-housing proximity and encourage compact growth, the concept of an activity center connected by high capacity transit corridors was employed in the plan, targeting the accommodation of 31 percent of the population and 38 percent of employment in Central Texas by 2035 (CAMPO 2035 Plan 2010). At the time when CAMPO was attempting to define appropriate ratios of jobs-housing balance for the activity centers, critical questions arose: what is a good ratio? Further, how should jobs-housing balance be quantified for guiding land use development? And to what extent could jobs-housing ratio be effectively used as an intervention instrument? This report attempts to provide theoretical and empirical evidence of jobs-housing balance and examine the applicability of jobs-housing balance ratio for different planning purpose in local context. Based on a rich literature review, the report removed the "deceptive simple concept" (Cervero 1991, p. 10) of jobs-housing balance on the surface and gathered insights on jobs-housing balance from existing exemplary studies. Absent a single consensus of a good jobs-housing balance ratio, the goal of this report is to present the possible ways of measuring and defining jobs-housing balance in complex urban development. This report analyzed existing jobs-housing balance of the Austin Region, presenting the truth of commute distance and jobs-housing balance ratio. Local municipalities might consider more factors in terms of the application of jobs-housing balance ratio in local context.
Jobs-housing Balance
Jobs-housing Balance
Author: Jerry Weitz
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Jobs-Housing Balance examines a controversial concept. Some have argued that the market is the mechanism that will achieve balance between jobs and housing. Weitz, in his research of four types of jobs-housing imbalance, concludes that, in fact, the market has failed to achieve balance in three of the four jobs-housing balance scenarios he lays out. He provides a number of case studies to support his findings, including one from King County, Washington, showing that increases in housing costs are more gradual in areas with a jobs-housing balance. This report counters the skeptics and points to those actions planners can take to help bring appropriate housing, jobs, and workforces together, resulting in overall community improvements.
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Jobs-Housing Balance examines a controversial concept. Some have argued that the market is the mechanism that will achieve balance between jobs and housing. Weitz, in his research of four types of jobs-housing imbalance, concludes that, in fact, the market has failed to achieve balance in three of the four jobs-housing balance scenarios he lays out. He provides a number of case studies to support his findings, including one from King County, Washington, showing that increases in housing costs are more gradual in areas with a jobs-housing balance. This report counters the skeptics and points to those actions planners can take to help bring appropriate housing, jobs, and workforces together, resulting in overall community improvements.
Feasibility of Using Jobs/housing Balance in Virginia Statewide Planning
Author: John Sanders Miller
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Category : Commuting
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The Code of Virginia (section 33.1-23.03) requires that the Statewide Transportation Plan include "quantifiable measures and achievable goals relating to ... job-to-housing ratios." Such ratios reflect jobs/housing balance, defined as an equivalence in the numbers of an area's jobs and area residents seeking those jobs. This report identifies planning policies based on jobs/housing balance, examines the impact of such balance on commuting, and demonstrates how to measure this balance using Virginia data. The research suggests that the Code requirement may be satisfied by using the ratio of jobs to labor force, as this ratio is highly correlated with the job-to-housing ratio (based on examining 1980, 1990, and 2000 data) and is computationally feasible, at the jurisdictional level, on an annual basis. Alternative approaches for satisfying the requirements of the Code are also described in the report; these alternative approaches require additional effort but may be productive in certain circumstances. A simple longitudinal model developed using changes in Virginia jurisdiction commute time from 1990 through 2000 estimates that the average impact of a given urban jurisdiction improving its balance by 20% is a reduction in commute time of about 2 minutes. This effect is evident only if several factors, such as the manner in which the urban region is defined, are carefully controlled. Otherwise, there is no significant impact of a change in jobs/housing balance on a given jurisdiction's commute time. This finding is within the wide range of impacts of jobs/housing balance noted in the literature.
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Category : Commuting
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The Code of Virginia (section 33.1-23.03) requires that the Statewide Transportation Plan include "quantifiable measures and achievable goals relating to ... job-to-housing ratios." Such ratios reflect jobs/housing balance, defined as an equivalence in the numbers of an area's jobs and area residents seeking those jobs. This report identifies planning policies based on jobs/housing balance, examines the impact of such balance on commuting, and demonstrates how to measure this balance using Virginia data. The research suggests that the Code requirement may be satisfied by using the ratio of jobs to labor force, as this ratio is highly correlated with the job-to-housing ratio (based on examining 1980, 1990, and 2000 data) and is computationally feasible, at the jurisdictional level, on an annual basis. Alternative approaches for satisfying the requirements of the Code are also described in the report; these alternative approaches require additional effort but may be productive in certain circumstances. A simple longitudinal model developed using changes in Virginia jurisdiction commute time from 1990 through 2000 estimates that the average impact of a given urban jurisdiction improving its balance by 20% is a reduction in commute time of about 2 minutes. This effect is evident only if several factors, such as the manner in which the urban region is defined, are carefully controlled. Otherwise, there is no significant impact of a change in jobs/housing balance on a given jurisdiction's commute time. This finding is within the wide range of impacts of jobs/housing balance noted in the literature.
Planning for a Jobs and Housing Balance
Author: Robert C. Burness
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Jobs-housing Balance
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Achieving a Jobs-housing Balance
Author: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
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Jobs/housing Balance in California
Author: Joel H. Tranter
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Jobs/housing Balance
Author: Margaret M. Sachs
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Category : Commuting
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Category : Commuting
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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An Issue Paper on Jobs/housing Balance
Author: Toby Sachs
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Category : Commuting
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Category : Commuting
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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1995 Jobs Housing Balance Study
Author: San Luis Obispo Council of Governments
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
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