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Dr. Dawn Parker (dcparker@uwaterloo.ca) and Xinyue Pi, MES (xinyue.pi@uwaterloo.ca) Executive summary Xinyue Pi’s thesis “Exploring Rental Housing Markets in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario” is nowpublished and available for download at https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/12431 .Xinyue Pi completed her Master’s in Environmental Studies in the School of Planning under thesupervision of Professor Dawn Cassandra Parker. Dr. Xiongbing Jin served as committeemember and Professor Kevin Curtis as external reader. From June to November 2016, wemailed invitations to a random sample of 2912 households renting in Kitchener and Waterlooto participate in a survey on residential location choice, renting experience and behaviours andperceptions towards the upcoming LRT, after which a total of 290 survey responses wereanalyzed. After a descriptive statistical analysis of the survey results, a multivariate hedonicstatistical model was also developed to investigate the relationship between rental housing pricesand corresponding household, residential, neighbourhood and behaviour characteristics. Suchmodels statistically distill the independent influences of renter household, dwelling, andneighbourhood characteristics on rent. Chapter 8 of the thesis summarizes the main findingsand discusses policy implications. We highlight some of the most interesting results of our studyhere. [postlist id=774] UW-Renter Survey Report FinalDownload

“Exciting times” for K-W residential markets: GTH buyers, Central Transit Corridor impacts, and missing markets by Prof. Dawn Cassandra Parker Co-authors: , Yu Huang, Jennifer Dean, Justin Cook, Xinyue Pi, Robert Babin, Jinny Tran, Emma De Fields Slides available here: KWAR_Parker_HMI_6Nov2018Download [postlist id=772]

Tracking impacts of light rail investment through a volatile housing market: Combining qualitative and quantitative methods to understand dynamic influences of demographic change and investment incentives Slides available here: ACSP_DCParker_25Oct2018 [postlist id=774]

Combining household survey data, key informant interviews, and hedonic modelling to understand housing demand in a dynamically shifting market by Prof. Dawn Cassandra Parker Co-authors: Yu Huang, Robert Babin, Xinyue Pi, Jinny Tran, Xiongbing Jin, Jennifer Dean [postlist id=772] Full slides available here: DEVS_Corsica_1May2018