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Can Indirect Strategies Reduce Shortages,Restrain Housing Cannibals, and Promote Affordability?
Dowell MyersProfessor of Policy, Planning, and Demography
Center for Applied Housing Research (CAHR) Distinguished Lecture
School of Public Affairs and Civic Engagement
San Francisco State University
October 17, 2019
Based on research supported by the Haynes Foundationand the National Multifamily Housing Council
1. Where did the housing crisis come from? How big? So many
interconnections, anomalies, and misperceptions
Themes Addressed
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5. The growing evidence for indirect solutions
2. How does housing affordability result or get measured?
3. To understand growing needs, follow the people
4. How does housing shortage exert its effects?
Nationwide
But Most Acute
in California
Includes future needs plus present unmet needs
Statewide
2017-2025 McKinsey (2016) = 3.5M (438K per year)
2017-2025 USC (HRB 1) Pop based, using 2000 norm = 2.8M (354K per year)
Key regions
2014-2022 ABAG RHNA = 188K (24K per year) only future needs?
2021-2029 SCAG RHNA = 456K (57K per year) by staff, but members vetoed
→ 1.3M (163K per year) by HCD determination 8/22/19
How Big is the Housing Shortage Really?
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Slowdown in New Construction in CaliforniaAnnual Building Permits by Structure Type, California, 1960 to 2018
Expanding new construction after
bust, but still much below average
160K permitsper year for the
last 59 years
2018
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An existential problem…..
Cannot measure needs or affordability for HHs that do not exist because would-be HHs cannot find enough housing units
Housing needs must be estimated from either the number of people or jobs, but not from the existing HHs
Population based, using normal household formation rates
Jobs-housing based, using “normal” relationships of permits to job growth from the past
How to Measure Needs for Households that Don’t Exist?
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Strong Relations Between New Construction and Job Growth Before the Recession, Five Eras Since 1980, Largest 100 Metros
2012-17 2007-11 2000-06
1990s 1980s
Notes: New construction per year (%) = Summed annual bldg. permits (2-year lagged) / start year households x 100 / length of years; Job growth per year (%) = (end year jobs – start year jobs) / start year jobs x 100 / length of yearsSources: U.S. Census Bureau’s Building Permits Survey; Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)’s Employment Data; Decennial Census and American Community Survey IPUMS Microdata Files.
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Coefficient
on Job
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1980–89 0.80 0.12 0.68
1990–99 0.52 0.53 0.71
Boom (2000 Through 2006) 0.59 1.08 0.56
Bust (2007 Through 2011) 0.34 1.37 0.17
Recovery (2012 Through 2017) 0.29 0.25 0.34
Average of
80s, 90s, and Boom0.64 0.58
Relations Across 100 Metros
Strong Relations Between New Construction and Job Growth Before the Recession, Five Eras Since 1980, Largest 100 Metros
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Annual Housing Needs 2017 to 2025 (Thousand Units per Year)
Choices for Counting Annual Housing Needs in California, 2017 to 2025
Existing Backlog and Future Needs per Year, Population-based, 1000s,Including 5% Vacancies and 0.15% Annual Replacements
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Avg. actual permitsin 2017 & 2018
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When Growing Rental Demand Meets Limited Housing Supply
Great Recession & Aftermath
Depressed Homeownership
Millennial ArrivalIn Adulthood
IncreasedRental Demand
Other PopulationGrowth
D E M A N D
Depressed Construction
Political Resistance
Restricted Supplyof Workers
Financing & Land Constraints
S U P P L Y
Rental HousingShortage
Conceptual Diagram for Explaining the Rental Housing Shortage
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Interconnections in the Housing Market with Owners at the Top While the Lowest Income Multifamily Renters at the Bottom, 2017
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MF Renters (50−80% AMI, Low-income)
MF Renters (0−50% AMI, Very Low-income)
Sources: 2017 American Community Survey IPUMS Microdata Files.
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Sources: Graphs based on Table 2 ofMetcalf, G. (2018). Sand Castles Before the Tide? Affordable Housing in Expensive Cities. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 32(1) : 59–80.
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34.0% of Low-cost Rentals* Were Taken by Relatively Higher-income Renters in the Cities of LA and San Francisco, 2017
Low-Cost Successfully Occupied by Very Low-income (0−50% AMI)Either Subsidized or Rent Regulated/Unregulated Market-rate
Taken by Low-income (50−80% AMI)
Taken by Middle-income (80−120% AMI)
Taken by Higher-income (120%+ AMI)
Sources: Analysis by JungHo Park, 2017 American Community Survey IPUMS Microdata Files.
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* Low-cost rental units in the City of San Francisco are defined for THIS analysis by gross rents lower than $1,388/month (2017$) which is 30%-rent-burden-ceiling for very low-income San Franciscan HH (<50% of City of SF median HH income, $111,000 in 2017); For City of LA, low-cost rental units are defined lower than $750/month (2017$) based on the city’s median HH income of $60,000 in 2017.
Long-term Homeownership Rates, US and California, 1960 to 2018
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CA
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Sources: 1960 to 2000 Decennial Census IPUMS Microdata Files; 2006 through 2018 American Community Survey.
Homeownership Rates By Age Group, California, 1980 to 2018
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Sources: 1960 to 2000 Decennial Census IPUMS Microdata Files; 2006 through 2018 American Community Survey.
Big consequences of falling homeownership rates for the rest of the housing market
Increasing Homeownership Gap, California, 1980 to 2018
Gap Between Homeownership Rate ofAge 35-44 Minus Age 65+, Percentage Point Difference
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Affordability Problems
Are Everywhere
But Not Measured Effectively
Long-term Trend of Rent Burden, United States, 1980 to 2017
Paying more than 30% of Income on Rent
Sources: 1980 to 2000 Decennial Census and 2006 through 2017 American Community Survey IPUMS Microdata Files.
Paying more than 50% of Income on Rent
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Surprisingly Similar Rent Burden Across Regions,Plus Curious Anomalies of SF-Oakland and Washington D.C.
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Share of Renters Paying More than 30 (or 50) Percent of Income, US and 50 Largest Metros, 2017
More than 50.0% 30.1 to 50.0%
WEST MIDWEST SOUTH NORTHEASTUS
Sources: 2017 American Community Survey IPUMS Microdata Files. Dowell Myers, USC Price
Faults with the Traditional Rent Burden Indicator
1. These metros can’t really be all so similar on affordability
2. The Bay Area and Washington, DC, CANNOT be more affordable
than the national average – that is nonsensical
3. Rent burden DISGUISES the problem: is it rent’s too high
or income’s too low? What has been changing the most?
4. Rent burden averages all income groups together, so we can’t
tell if the incidence of high rent burden is driven by only the
lowest income group or middle income groups as well
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New Method of Tracking Growing Mismatch of Incomes and Rents
The idea of the Myers-Park (2019) method is to show the changing rent distribution,
marking it into four equal quartiles in 2000, and then see in future years how many of
the rental units have shifted over time into the top quartile
Separately, we show the changing income distribution of renters, marking that also
into four equal quartiles in 2000, and then seeing how incomes of renters also shift into
higher or lower quartiles
How great is the mismatch?
Here, we see how the new Constant Quartile Mismatch indicator helps disentangle
rent and income effects, and how it can reveal the true variation of affordability
problems across regions
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Soaring Rent Relative to Sluggish Income of Renters,United States and Los Angeles Metro, 2000 to 2016
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Sources: Myers and Park (2019) https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol21num1/article7.html
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Renter Income Gross Rent
Metropolitan Areas Where Incomes Are Growing,While Rents Are Growing Even Faster, 2000 to 2016
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Sources: Myers and Park (2019) https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol21num1/article7.html
San JoseSF-Oakland Washington, D.C.
Where Does Housing Need Come From?
Follow the People!
% of Population Each Year that Moved into a Housing Unit, 2006 to 2018
A Small Amount of Housing Growth is from OutsidersMoving into California, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area
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Growth by Age in California: Then and Now
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Sources: Dowell Myers, Census Bureau decennial census of 1990 and 2010, and CA DOF 2017 vintage projections
Birthplace Origins of Residents, By Age Group, 2017
More than Half of Young California and Bay Area ResidentsAre Homegrown
California
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Tripling Ratio of Seniors to Workers in the Bay Area Since 2010
Upsurge After 2010 in SF-Oakland, LA, California, and U.S. Overall
Sources: Census 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010; Census Bureau’s 2017-vintage National Population Projections 2017-2060; CA DOF’s 2017-vintage State and County Population Projections 2010-2060.
Why the Rising Ratio Matters
❑ Growing weight of pensions and health care
❑ Weakened base of taxpayers
❑ Relatively fewer workers
❑ More potential home sellers than potential buyers
❑ Elderly dominant society could have more volunteers
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Children-to-Grandparent Ratios* LA, SF-Oakland, CA, and US, 1960 to 2060
* Number Children Under Age 10
Compared to Elderly Age 65 +
How does the Falling Ratio Matter?
❑ Surge of children in 1990s & 2000s meant more schools and a bigger budget share
❑ Now the dwindling number of children means fewer young adults in coming decades
❑ Fewer new workers, taxpayers and potential homebuyers
❑ How to raise the skills of local youth so that we can do more with less?
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Sources: Census 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010; Census Bureau’s 2017-vintage National Population Projections 2017-2060; CA DOF’s 2017-vintage State and County Population Projections 2010-2060.
These population dynamics—and others as well—shape the politics surrounding housing problems and potential solutions.
Demographics also shape housing demand and housing needs itself. Using a housing demographic approach we can estimate needs that are not directly measurable through housing units or household income.
Old ideas of housing demography are finding new relevant applications……
Payoff from Following the People
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How Doesthe Housing Shortage
Exert Its Effects on People?
Too much competition for too little supply
= Pressure cooker on prices and displacement
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But what exactly are the mechanics on that?
Diverted Homeowners Pancake into the Rental Market, California
Sources: 1960 to 2000 Decennial Census IPUMS Microdata Files; 2006 through 2018 American Community Survey.
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Increasing Homeownership Gap = Greater Rental Demand
Gap Between Homeownership Rate ofAge 35-44 Minus Age 65+, Percentage Point Difference
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Sources: Graphs based on Figure 1 of Myers, D. (2016). Peak Millennials: Three Reinforcing Cycles That Amplify the Rise and Fall of UrbanConcentration by Millennials. Housing Policy Debate, 26(6), 928–947; National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 67, No. 8, November 7, 2018
Declining Household Formation in California
Sources: Graphs based on Figure 5 of Myers, D. (2016). Peak Millennials: Three Reinforcing Cycles That Amplify the Rise and Fall of Urban Concentration by Millennials. Housing Policy Debate, 26(6), 928–947.0.5
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Sources: Graphs based on Figure 5 of Myers, D. (2016). Peak Millennials: Three Reinforcing Cycles That Amplify the Rise and Fall of Urban Concentration by Millennials. Housing Policy Debate, 26(6), 928–947.
When Growing Rental Demand Meets Limited Housing Supply
Great Recession & Aftermath
Depressed Homeownership
Millennial ArrivalIn Adulthood
IncreasedRental Demand
Other PopulationGrowth
D E M A N D
Depressed Construction
Political Resistance
Restricted Supplyof Workers
Financing & Land Constraints
S U P P L Y
Rental HousingShortage
Conceptual Diagram for Explaining the Rental Housing Shortage
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How Does the ShortageGet Resolved?
Would-be homeownersdiverted into rentals
1.2 M Dislodged
Luxury New Rentals
Older Luxury Rentals
Middle Class Rentals
Working Class Rentals
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Millennials coming of ageand forming households
Higher-income renterstaking medium-cost rentals
thinning the ranks of lower income residents who are forced to double-up or worse
Shortage Breeds Downward Raiding and Cannibalization
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20.3% of 2017 actual renters;9.2% of 2017 actual HHs
California
Growing Evidence Suggesting Need for Indirect Solutions
Massive Solutions Are Needed
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Beginning with 200,000 subsidized units targeted to very low-income HHs with the worst housing needs,
but extending to many times more low-income HHs living in market rate housing and burdened with excessive rents,
and including also a great many middle class HHs facing their own affordability problems or burdened by their grown children who are camped at home for lack of suitable entry-level housing.
Whether or not its exactly 3.5 Million homes that are needed,how in the world are we to deliver on that goal?
Limited Budget Capacity for Direct Solutions
Federal Government
$782 billion deficit for Fiscal Year
2018, about 17 percent ($116 billion)
greater than the deficit for FY 2017
and projected to keep falling deeper
in debt, with no new room for funding
housing needs
State Government
$21 billion surplus in January 2019,
enough to build 42,000 new units
or to subsidize 105,000 units for 20
years (at $10k per unit per year)
Congressional Budget Office, June 2019
No relief in sight for Federal budget deficits
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Advantages of Indirect Solutions
Direct solutions are attractive, but expensive and grossly inadequate in scale.
Solutions to problems don’t always lie where the problems appear.
Indirect solutions may go to the root causes, be more economical, and also more sustainable.
We need to leverage the rest of the housing market to produce more favorable opportunities for lower income households as well as the middle class.
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Consider These 4 Indirect Solutions
• Solution 1 — get the diverted homeowners OUT of rental competition—most are in apartments, not SF rental
• Solution 2 — multiply the vacancy chains stemming from newly built units
• Solution 3 — siphon demand OUT of working/middle class family homes and into newly built housing
• Solution 4 — use filtering to grow future opportunities for low-income HHs by producing more middle-income housing today
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New Attention to Vacancy Chains
Old idea that every new unit stimulates a chain of moves, creating opportunities for 3 or more additional HHs. (Kristof 1965; Lansing 1969)
Chain is broken when the inmover does NOT leave a vacant unit behind (due to HH formation, in-migration from another metro, etc.)
Newest work is using the Infutor marketing database to trace residential histories. Not clear that vacancies are left behind—could just be roommates or partners leaving.
Evan Mast (2019) estimates migrants from out of MSA fill 45% of newly built units in his sample of metros. Note that centrally located new housing has special attraction for migrants lacking local familiarity.
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Market Rate Housing Can Save the Working Class
Evan Mast (2019) shows new market rate housing stimulates 20 moves from low-income neighborhoods for every 100 new units built. Or 50 moves from below-median neighborhoods.
Middle income construction will have more impact on working class than luxury—because it is a closer substitution—but all housing serves to absorb excess demand that otherwise would scavenge downward in income level.
These indirect linkages may be hard to prove to neighborhood activists. Case examples and role playing exercises might help.
An excess of market rate housing would facilitate filtering opportunities, but how much can that be believed? see next!
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Can Filtering Increase Low-income Opportunities?
HUD declares filtering is the traditional means of creating lower-income housing opportunity. Over time properties obsolesce and are made less competitive, commanding lower rents.
Many people have lost faith in “trickle down” strategies. Filtering requires a surplus supply if this favorable sorting is going to work. Under shortage conditions, its effects could be reversed.
A current research project supported by the research foundation of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) is tracing apartment filtering between 1980 and 2017 in the largest metros. Filtering is measured by an increased occupancy by very low-income tenants (income < 50% of MSA median).
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Success of Filtering in Apartments of Each VintageMedian Rent Percent Very Low-income Tenants
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Preliminary Preliminary
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Slowdown in New Construction in CaliforniaAnnual Building Permits by Structure Type, California, 1960 to 2018
Forgone filtered housing of today and the future
2018
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Haynes Supported Housing Research Briefs (HRBs), 2018–2019
HRB 1 – Myers, D., Park, JH., & J. Li. (August 2018). How Much Added Housing is Really Needed in California? Housing Research Brief 1. Los Angeles, CA: USC Population Dynamics Research Group. https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.usc.edu/dist/6/210/files/2017/02/HRB-1-How-Much-Added-Housing-is-Really-Needed-in-California-1okfauc.pdf
HRB 2 – Myers, D., Park, JH., & E. Mendoza. (August 2018). How Much Added Housing is Really Needed in Los Angeles? Housing Research Brief 2. Los Angeles, CA: USC Population Dynamics Research Group. https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.usc.edu/dist/6/210/files/2017/02/HRB-2-How-Much-Added-Housing-is-Really-Needed-in-Los-Angeles-1zumxf6.pdf
HRB 3 – Myers, D., Park, JH., & E. Mendoza. (September 2018). How Much Worse is Affordability in LA than Before? Housing Research Brief 3. Los Angeles, CA: USC Population Dynamics Research Group. https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.usc.edu/dist/6/210/files/2017/02/HRB-3-How-Much-Worse-Is-Affordability-in-LA-than-Before-x09qkr.pdf
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HRB 4 – Myers, D. & JH. Park. (January 2019). Who Lives in New Housing in Los Angeles? Housing Research Brief 4. Los Angeles, CA: USC Population Dynamics Research Group. https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.usc.edu/dist/6/210/files/2019/01/HRB-4-Who-Lives-in-New-Housing-in-Los-Angeles-2ev2t3l.pdf
HRB 5 – Park, JH. & D. Myers. (January 2019). Where Do Low-Income Angelenos Live? Housing Research Brief 5. Los Angeles, CA: USC Population Dynamics Research Group. https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.usc.edu/dist/6/210/files/2017/02/HRB-5-Where-Do-Low-Income-Angelenos-Live-1glbw1d.pdf
HRB 6 – Myers, D. & JH. Park. (August 2019). Do Shortages Lead to Dislodgment of Disappearing Renters in Los Angeles? Housing Research Brief 6. Los Angeles, CA: USC Population Dynamics Research Group. https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.usc.edu/dist/6/210/files/2019/08/HRB-6-How-Do-Shortages-Lead-to-Dislodgement-and-Disappearing-Renters.pdf