Measuring the Fairness of Transit Accessibility: The Case of Affordable Housing in New York City
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Keywords: Affordable Housing, Transport Accessibility, Social Determinants
Abstract Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
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Vaidehi Raipat, New York University
Federico Messa, Fondazione Transform Transport ETS, Milan (Italy)
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Abstract
Affordable housing is an integral part of any city that aims to achieve equity and inclusivity. For affordable housing stock to function as stable communities, it is essential to ensure that they are socio-economically self-sustainable. Nevertheless, it seldom happens that affordable housing units are located in low-opportunity areas with limited accessibility to the proximity of essential services and public transport systems.(Ellen, et al., 2022)
In an urban environment, public transit systems act as equalizing factors, allowing people with diverse socio-economic backgrounds to move across the city similarly. (Cradock et al., 2021) Therefore, easy access to good and cheap public transport is crucial to building a thriving and affordable neighborhood. It has the potential to overcome the unavailability of other opportunities in immediate proximity partially.
In this framework, the research aims to implement an urban informatics approach to leverage open data to assess the fairness of accessibility with public transit for the affordable housing stock of New York City. Accessibility scores are calculated by devising a set of indicators to measure the potential to reach in a defined time window, important social determinants, such as health and education facilities, and the number of available jobs.
The results of these analyses act as palimpsests to calculate the accessibility scores and evaluate the fairness of public transport for the city’s affordable housing stock and to aid the decision-making process for locating future affordable housing units in the city.
Measuring the Fairness of Transit Accessibility: The Case of Affordable Housing in New York City
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Virtual Paper Abstract