Title page for E-project-031511-154753

Project Type MQP

Submission date 2011-03-15

Author
Linnea May Palmer Paton, EP

URN E-project-031511-154753

Title Where has Urban Sustainability Gone? The Affordable Housing Gap in Smart Growth Development in the U.S.

Advisor
Krueger, Robert, ID

Availability unrestricted

Abstract
This research focuses on the role social equity has played in sustainable development since the 1990s using the inclusion of affordable housing as a metric. Through the collection and examination of 492 "sustainable" and "smart growth," mixed-use developments it was identified that less than 40 percent included affordable housing. While this suggests that some progress has been made in the efforts to address social equity in development, it also indicates a significant disparity in the intended beneficiaries of sustainable development.

Files
Sustainable_Development_and_the_Affordable_Housing_Gap.pdf

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Project Type	MQP
Submission date	2011-03-15
Author	Linnea May Palmer Paton, EP
URN	E-project-031511-154753
Title	Where has Urban Sustainability Gone? The Affordable Housing Gap in Smart Growth Development in the U.S.
Advisor	Krueger, Robert, ID
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This research focuses on the role social equity has played in sustainable development since the 1990s using the inclusion of affordable housing as a metric. Through the collection and examination of 492 "sustainable" and "smart growth," mixed-use developments it was identified that less than 40 percent included affordable housing. While this suggests that some progress has been made in the efforts to address social equity in development, it also indicates a significant disparity in the intended beneficiaries of sustainable development.
Files	Sustainable_Development_and_the_Affordable_Housing_Gap.pdf