Measuring Gentrification’s Association With Perceived Housing Unaffordability: A Philadelphia Case Study

Joseph Gibbons

Housing Policy Debate, 2021, vol. 31, issue 2, 306-325

Abstract: Gentrification, the growing presence of middle- and upper-income residents in previously low-income communities, is associated with unaffordable housing. However, there is a lack of research examining gentrification’s relationship to perceived housing unaffordability across all city neighborhoods. This study addresses this limitation by pooling three waves of the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation’s Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey—2010, 2012, 2014/15—and nesting them within census tracts measuring gentrification with U.S. Census 2000 and 2010/14 American Community Survey data. Using hierarchical linear models, we find that gentrification overall has a negative relation with residents’ sense of their housing unaffordability. This association is likely driven by gentrification accompanied by increases in non-Whites. Gentrification marked by increases in Whites but decreases in non-Whites has no measurable relationship with perceived housing unaffordability, although these places have the most expensive housing among gentrifying neighborhoods.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2020.1810097

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