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JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.41,Issue8,P.1123-1141

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英文

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Opposition to new housing at higher densities is a pervasive and understudied problem, and an obstacle to both urban sustainability and housing affordability. Most existing research on housing opposition focuses on subsidized affordable housing, rather than new market-rate development. Scholars also tend to examine opponents’ stated concerns, which often overlap and may obscure their underlying motivations. This article uses a survey-framing experiment, administered to over 1,300 people in Los Angeles County, to isolate different arguments against new market-rate housing and measure their relative persuasive power. We test the impact of common anti-housing arguments, such as traffic congestion, but also introduce the idea that residents might dislike development because they dislike developers. We find strong evidence for this idea: opposition to new development increases by 20 percentage points when respondents learn that a developer is likely to earn a large profit. This effect is similar in magnitude to arguments that new housing will harm neighborhood character. Our findings show that some opposition to housing is motivated not by residents’ fears of their own losses, but resentment of others’ gains.View correction statement:CorrectionAcknowledgmentsThis research project was generously supported by the UCLA Ziman Center and the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. Insightful comments on earlier drafts were provided by Andrew Whittemore, Weihuang Wong, the editors and anonymous reviewers at the Journal of Urban Affairs, and participants at the NYU Wagner Seminar on March 1, 2018.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Supplemental dataSupplemental data for this article can be accessed here.Additional informationFundingThis work was partially supported by the Ziman Center for Real Estate, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.Notes on contributorsPaavo MonkkonenPaavo Monkkonen is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He studies how policies and markets shape urbanization and social segregation in cities around the world.Michael ManvilleMichael Manville is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He studies transportation, land use, housing and public finance.