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Affordable Housing Effects on Property Values

HCD Library of Resources on Affordable Housing and Property Values. This document provides useful hyperlinks to other reports and studies that assess how affordable housing has affected property values around California.

Does Affordable Housing Negatively Impact Property Values? This is another “meta-level” literature review of this topic, with a recap of various studies and some interesting conclusions.

There Doesn’t Go the Neighborhood. This interesting research study from on-line real estate platform Trulia looks at the impacts of affordable housing on property values in surrounding neighborhoods.

Who Wants Affordable Housing in their Backyard? This graduate-level research study from Stanford looks at the impacts of Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects on surrounding neighborhoods, using complex mathematical models and formulas.

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