Defining Affordable Housing: A study of secondary and tertiary impacts to housing affordability in Habitat for Humanity clients.

dc.contributor.authorIsola IV, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-25T18:51:14Z
dc.date.available2025-09-25T18:51:14Z
dc.date.graduationmonthDecember
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractHousing affordability is an important topic in the United States. Many communities currently have both a shortage in housing stock and, more importantly, a shortage in affordable housing stock. Many proposed policy and practice solutions exist to ease the strain on communities caused by the lack of affordable housing. Many of the proposed solutions are economic in nature, either supply side or demand side. However, research suggests that factors that impact housing affordability are more than just economic in nature but are also social and environmental in nature. By studying Habitat for Humanity clients in the state of North Carolina, this paper defines the myriad social, environmental, and economic factors that impact housing affordability and models the interactions between these factors, residents, and communities. These factors can be ranked as primary, secondary, or tertiary impacts to housing affordability.
dc.description.advisorHuston Gibson
dc.description.degreeMaster of Science
dc.description.departmentDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
dc.description.levelMasters
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2097/45324
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectAffordable housing
dc.subjectHousing
dc.subjectHabitat for Humanity
dc.subjectAffordable housing definition
dc.subjectHousing policy
dc.titleDefining Affordable Housing: A study of secondary and tertiary impacts to housing affordability in Habitat for Humanity clients.
dc.typeThesis

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