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This study is a continuation and extension of earlier research and analysis that was done on non-market singles units in Vancouver for Geography 470. The previous study was limited in that it did not include market based low-income units, and as such this study examines both non-market and market low-income singles units. The city’s overall supply of general low-income singles housing has suffered a decrease of 17% in terms of numbers of rooms since the 1970’s, and has also changed in composition from mostly market-based SRO rooms to a mix of both market and non-market types (City of Vancouver, 2003 11) (See Figure 1). Additionally, there has been a spatial shift, as gentrification claims many of the market units in historically lower-income areas like the downtown south, and replacement non-market units create an increasing concentration in the city’s downtown eastside. By geocoding the locations and number of rooms for each applicable housing building or project within the downtown core and compiling census statistics seen as possible factors in the location of low-income housing of this type or of residents of low-income housing of this type, it was possible to undertake a comparison using geographically weighted regression analysis. It was hoped that this examination, combined with visualizations of the data in a GIS could highlight some of the important underlying factors and results associated with a polarized concentration of a certain housing types within a localized area.
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