scholarly journals Waiting for affordable housing in New York City

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Sieg ◽  
Chamna Yoon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Dynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Adjustment Costs ◽  
Search Frictions ◽  
Rental Markets ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Vacancy

We develop a new dynamic equilibrium model with heterogeneous households that captures the most important frictions that arise in housing rental markets and explains the political popularity of affordable housing policies. We estimate the model using data collected by the New York Housing Vacancy Survey in 2011. We find that there are significant adjustment costs in all markets as well as serious search frictions in the market for affordable housing. Moreover, there are large queuing frictions in the market for public housing. Having access to rent‐stabilized housing increases household welfare by up to $ 65 , 000 . Increasing the supply of affordable housing by 10 % significantly improves the welfare of all renters in the city. Progressive taxation of higher‐income households that live in public housing can also be welfare improving.

scholarly journals Do Tourists Tip More Than Local Consumers? Evidence from Taxi Rides in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 281-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir B. Ferreira Neto ◽  
Adam Nowak ◽  
Amanda Ross
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Taxi Service ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Tipping Behavior ◽  
The City

Given the resurgence of cities as consumer centers and the importance of amenities, we revisit the differences in tipping in taxis between tourists and locals in New York City. Taxi service is an endogenous service; however, taxis also contribute to the demand and provision of other amenities. We compare locals and tourists who are theatergoers to control for education and income, as these factors are likely to affect tipping behavior. Using data from the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission on yellow taxis, we identify tourists as those trips leaving from or going to a hotel and theatergoers as trips where the drop-off or pickup is near Broadway within thirty minutes of the beginning or end of a show. We find that tourists and theatergoers tip more than locals and nontheatergoers, and tourists who are theatergoers tip even more. These differences between tourists and locals may affect the allocation of taxis throughout the city and hence the provision of other amenities.

Life at North Beach Place

2018 ◽  
pp. 349-380
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Vale
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Hope Vi ◽  
Street Level ◽  
The North ◽  
Place Experience ◽  
New Development ◽  
Private Management ◽  
The City ◽  
North Beach

Chapter 12 investigates the post–HOPE VI version of North Beach Place, while discussing how San Francisco’s leaders sought to make this a model for public housing transformation citywide. In addition to increasing the number of on-site affordable housing units, the new North Beach Place added a supermarket, substantial below-grade parking, and new street-level retail. At the same time, however, the struggle to rehouse former residents proved contentious and protracted. Ultimately, only 36 percent of the original households chose (or were able) to return to the new development. Most of the initial tenant leaders did not come back, and many current residents—while grateful for their housing—lament the strictures of life under the close surveillance of private management. The chapter concludes with discussion of San Francisco’s HOPE SF initiative, a post–HOPE VI effort to use the North Beach Place experience to implement mixed-income housing elsewhere in the city.

scholarly journals Frictions in a Competitive, Regulated Market: Evidence from Taxis

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (8) ◽  
pp. 2954-2992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume R. Fréchette ◽  
Alessandro Lizzeri ◽  
Tobias Salz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Dynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Returns To Scale ◽  
Effective Density ◽  
Matching Process ◽  
Matching Frictions ◽  
Trading Partners ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Market Density

This paper presents a dynamic equilibrium model of a taxi market. The model is estimated using data from New York City yellow cabs. Two salient features by which most taxi markets deviate from the efficient market ideal are, first, matching frictions created by the need for both market sides to physically search for trading partners, and second, regulatory limitations to entry. To assess the importance of these features, we use the model to simulate the effect of changes in entry, alternative matching technologies, and different market density. We use the geographical features of the matching process to back out unobserved demand through a matching simulation. The matching function exhibits increasing returns to scale, which is important to understand the impact of changes in this market and has welfare implications. For instance, although alternative dispatch platforms can be more efficient than street-hailing, platform competition is harmful because it reduces effective density. (JEL C78, L51, L84, L92, L98, R48)

Berlin’s municipal socialism: a transatlantic muse for Mary Simkhovitch and New York City

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Barbara Levy Simon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
York City ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Settlement Houses ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City

This chapter follows the work of Mary Simkhovitch, a key figure in settlement houses in New York, but also a major proponent of the notion of municipalisation, a concept developed in Germany that advocated the transferal to city ownership of previously private, corporate assets. Simkhovitch was part of a group of Americans who were strongly influenced by ideas regarding social welfare that developed in Germany at the end of the 19th Century. She sought to implement these ideas in New York by establishing the Greenwich House settlement and then serving as its headworker for 44 years. During this period, she engaged in efforts to regulate industries through the National Consumers League, spearheaded tenement reform and the creation of public housing in New York, and played a key role in efforts to expand green spaces and recreational opportunities for children, adolescents, and adults in the city.

scholarly journals Re-Inventing Public Housing

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Biehle ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Jane Jacobs ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
One Step ◽  
Public Housing Estate ◽  
The City

In Public Housing that Worked Nicholas Bloom championed the success of the New York City Housing Authority, but to do so had to champion bureaucratic workability over architectural value. In fact, his assessment had to disregard the fact that nearly all of the high-rise low-income housing projects are psychologically partitioned island wastelands, anticities within the city. Louis Wirth, Jane Jacobs and now Steven Johnson have offered their generational testaments to density, diversity, mixed use, and continuity- what they considered made urban life meaningful. Steven Connsummarized- “the problem of the 21st century will be how we re-urbanize, how we fix the mistakes of our anti-urban 20th century.”The Pratt Institute UG urban design studio, Re-inventing Public Housing, is intended as one step toward meeting the challenge starting with the question-must we really accept the super block public housing estate for what it is or is there a way to transform and reinterpret it, and by doing so eliminate its stigma, its isolation, and anti-urban grip on the city?

Bike-Share Systems: Accessibility and Availability

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (9) ◽  
pp. 3803-3824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashish Kabra ◽  
Elena Belavina ◽  
Karan Girotra
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Operations Management ◽  
Demand Model ◽  
User Interest ◽  
Structural Demand ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Bike Share

The cities of Paris, London, Chicago, and New York (among many others) have set up bike-share systems to facilitate the use of bicycles for urban commuting. This paper estimates the impact of two facets of system performance on bike-share ridership: accessibility (how far the user must walk to reach stations) and bike-availability (the likelihood of finding a bicycle). We obtain these estimates from a structural demand model for ridership estimated using data from the Vélib’ system in Paris. We find that every additional meter of walking to a station decreases a user’s likelihood of using a bike from that station by 0.194% (±0.0693%), and an even more significant reduction at higher distances (>300 m). These estimates imply that almost 80% of bike-share usage comes from areas within 300 m of stations, highlighting the need for dense station networks. We find that a 10% increase in bike-availability would increase ridership by 12.211% (±1.097%), three-fourths of which comes from fewer abandonments and the rest of which comes from increased user interest. We illustrate the use of our estimates in comparing the effect of adding stations or increasing bike-availabilities in different parts of the city, at different times, and in evaluating other proposed improvements. This paper was accepted by Vishal Gaur, operations management.

scholarly journals Does School District Consolidation Cut Costs?

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Duncombe ◽  
John Yinger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Adjustment Costs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Capital Projects ◽  
School District Consolidation ◽  
District Consolidation ◽  
Capital Spending ◽  
Using Data

Consolidation has dramatically reduced the number of school districts in the United States. Using data from rural school districts in New York, this article provides the first direct estimation of consolidation's cost impacts. We find economies of size in operating spending: all else equal, doubling enrollment cuts operating costs per pupil by 61.7 percent for a 300-pupil district and by 49.6 percent for a 1,500-pupil district. Consolidation also involves large adjustment costs, however. These adjustment costs, which are particularly large for capital spending, lower net cost savings to 31.5 percent and 14.4 percent for a 300-pupil and a 1,500-pupil district, respectively. Overall, consolidation makes fiscal sense, particularly for very small districts, but states should avoid subsidizing unwarranted capital projects.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

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