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Preserving and Promoting Diverse Transit-Oriented Neighborhoods
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Type: Report
Year Published: 2006
Publisher: Center for Transit Oriented Development
Authors: Dena Belzer, Scott Bernstein, Cali Gorewitz, Carrie Makarewicz, Jennifer McGraw, Shelley Poticha, Abby Thorne-Lyman, and Mariia Zimmerman
Abstract: The renaissance of mass transit has coincided with a renaissance of communities and neighborhoods that are proximate to transit stations. More and more residents, of all incomes, ages, and races, want to not only use transit, they want to live near it as well. As demand for housing near this increasingly valuable piece of public infrastructure increases, how will its benefits be shared among diverse users? Will it give people more or fewer choices, and will those choices be broadly shared? What will these neighborhoods around transit look like in 25 years and what kinds of housing choices will be available? Will transit revert from being the lifeblood of those who need it the most to a mere perk of urban life for those who use it occasionally? Or could it become again what it once was, the glue that holds together the multiple facets -- the diverse faces -- of urban America?
To answer these questions, this report attempts to understand who lives near transit today and who is expected to live there in 25 years. This report also tries to lend a sense of urgency to a dialogue between those who want to ensure high-quality transit service, and those who want to ensure high-quality neighborhoods -- two sets of actors who have much at stake but do not often connect.
This dialogue needs to be about how to use the increasingly hot market for housing near transit to serve the interests of many grassroots and community development groups working to build diverse, inclusive, opportunity-rich neighborhoods, and in the process increase support for transit systems around the country.
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