Do Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) live up to the hype?

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Abstract: The goal of this paper is to determine how an increase in Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) development impacts neighborhood heterogeneity. ADUs are secondary housing units established in conjunction with a primary housing unit. Examples include basement and attic apartments, garage additions, or small second housing units that share property with larger, primary units. ADUs have been considered as a way to ease the housing crisis in North American cities by increasing housing stock in areas where new development is otherwise restricted by geographic or zoning limitations. However, limited research has been done to determine the actual impact of ADU construction. This paper will seek to examine the neighborhood effects of detached ADU (DADUs) in Vancouver, Canada. It will consider how DADU construction impacts neighborhood race, income, and immigration status heterogeneity. Employing a construction that compares the exposure of different Vancouver neighborhoods to the DADU policy, this paper will aim to measure to what degree DADU construction increases heterogeneity. Ultimately, this paper finds that the construction of DADUs have a statistically significant impact on neighborhood racial heterogeneity, but does not impact income or immigration status heterogeneity.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2021

Author	Claire Dinshaw
Advisor	Mark Duggan

Subject	Economics Department
Subject	Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
Subject	Housing policy
Subject	planning and zoning
Subject	Accessory Dwelling Units
Subject	ADUs
Subject	Vancouver
Subject	Canada
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/qr193yg3999

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Preferred Citation: Claire Dinshaw . (2021). Do Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) live up to the hype?. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/qr193yg3999

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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