Housed! A Seed Grant to Understand Citizen Opposition to Affordable Housing
It is well known that influential homeowners block affordable housing projects that are proposed for their neighborhoods. The delays in building affordable housing that come from homeowner opposition is one important driver of homelessness. This project creates an extension of an existing multi-agent model of citizen opposition to unwanted land uses that include affordable housing. The modeling predicts which households are likely to oppose a project which can give project proponents the ability to recruit neighborhood champions (supporters) who can communicate with predicted opponents.