Housing and transport expenditure: Socio-spatial indicators of affordability in Auckland

By Kate Mattingly, J. Morrissey. 2014

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Abstract Traditional measures of housing affordability are expressed solely as a function of housing cost and income. This one-dimensional view of affordability ignores transportation costs, which represent a sizable proportion of household expenditure. Conventional measures are problematic due to the extent to which housing location influences transportation costs. Consequently, narrowly construed definitions of housing affordability are misleading indicators of housing stress. This study quantitatively examines intra-metropolitan combined housing and transport affordability in Auckland, New Zealand. The research utilises disaggregate zonal data to develop comprehensive indicators of commuting costs. These indicators are applied to give an integrated affordability index for each statistical area unit within Auckland City. The results suggest that once commuting costs are incorporated into measures, a very different pattern of affordability emerges.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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Citations in the corpus

• Comparative analysis of MCDM methods for the assessment of sustainable housing affordability (2016, unknown): “This traditional approach is one-dimensional and researchers [5,11-13,22-24] are increasingly documenting its limitations.”