One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
by Matthew Yglesias · 14 Sep 2020
City metro area may not be able to afford a house in the absolute best school district or nicest neighborhood, but through the logic of “drive until you qualify,” it can get a house somewhere. The expansive urban footprints that result aren’t always very aesthetically charming, and hyperdependence on automobiles raises public health
The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream
by Christopher B. Leinberger · 15 Nov 2008 · 222pp · 50,318 words
built then.3 Drivable sub-urban for-sale housing development also results in cheaper land costs per dwelling unit if the consumer is willing to “drive until you qualify.” Various studies have shown that for every mile from an employment center a home buyer is willing to drive, the price of the house drops
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by between 1.5 and 6.0 percent.4 Housing affordability has therefore been directly tied to transportation. “Drive until you qualify” has become the basic American affordable housing policy. Smaller suburban governments allow households to cluster together in relatively homogeneous jurisdictions—the “birds of a feather
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of land to call one’s own, lower costs, due to inherently cheaper construction and infrastructure subsidies, more land, particularly if one is willing to “drive until you qualify,” lower community taxes, improved public schools, privacy, perceived safety, and abundant free parking. Getting better services, privacy, and more house for a lower cost is
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2006 study of eighteen metropolitan areas throughout the country found that working families spend even more on transportation than on housing, a reflection of the “drive until you qualify” affordable housing strategy.47 “In their search for low-cost housing, working families often locate far from their place of work, dramatically increasing their transportation
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the local-serving jobs provide. The most common way for working families to find affordable housing in the drivable sub-urban world has been to “drive until you qualify.” As discussed in chapter 4, if one is willing to drive farther to the fringe, and probably not in the favored quarter where most jobs
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–500 acres in size. Naturally, transit extends the reach of workers whose jobs are located in a regionalserving walkable urban place; so a variation of “drive until you qualify” works here as well—that is, “ride until you qualify.” The problem is that it will take time to meet the pent-up demand for
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elites, 70, 83, 184n12 job access, 69, 83 nondriver exclusion, 69–70, 83 poverty, 38, 68–69, 83, 140, 184n9, 191n4 social segregation, 68, 83 “Drive until you qualify,” 65, 67, 78, 139 Duany, Andres, 118 Duncan, J., 188n51 Economically sustainable, 11, 97, 167 Economic effects, 77, 84 Burchell, R., 78, 184n4 competitiveness, 78
Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
by Andrew Ross · 25 Oct 2021 · 301pp · 90,276 words
home buyers is by no means guaranteed. In the years before 2008, for example, lower-income prospective buyers of single-family homes were advised to “drive until you qualify”—only to find themselves saddled with subprime loans and stranded out in the foreclosure belts after the housing crash, dozens of traffic-choked miles from
Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design
by Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Steve Tiesdell and Taner Oc · 15 Feb 2010 · 1,233pp · 239,800 words
land to call one’s own • Lower costs, due to inherently cheaper construction and (hidden) infrastructure subsidies • More land, particularly if one is willing to ‘drive until you qualify’ • Lower community taxes • Privacy • Perceived safety • Abundant free parking. Costs • Automobile dependence, leaving essentially only one means of transportation • Social segregation• Concentration of poverty, resulting
How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification
by Peter Moskowitz · 7 Mar 2017 · 288pp · 83,690 words
to $3,000. That was in 2011; it likely costs even more now. So Oscar did what’s become known in real estate circles as “drive until you qualify”: he searched for two-bedroom condos for himself and his mother farther and farther and farther from San Francisco until he found one that he
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are Thekeys to Sustainability
by David Owen · 16 Sep 2009 · 313pp · 92,907 words
adjust—especially if the houses they had stretched to buy were in the newest, most distant suburbs, whose residents face the longest, most expensive commutes. (“Drive until you qualify” is the mortgage broker’s expression of the inverse relationship between fuel consumption and what buyers perceive to be affordable real estate.) A new house
Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car
by Anthony M. Townsend · 15 Jun 2020 · 362pp · 97,288 words
you want to go and then space out for a while until you pop up somewhere else, swiping or sleeping away the hours in between. “Drive until you qualify,” a home buyer’s mantra for the trade-off between cheaper housing and a longer commute, takes on a whole new meaning when software’s
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mobilize a new kind of neighborhood? Could rovers actually help us improve TOD instead of abandoning it? DURING THE HOUSING BUBBLE of the early 2000s, “Drive until you qualify” for a mortgage became a do-or-die mantra for first-time homebuyers. In a city of rovers, the same might be true, but you