Community Choices and Housing Demands: A Spatial Analysis of the Southern Appalachian Highlands

This paper e.~amines housing dt~mand u.si~lg an integl-utecl approach thnr combines i~side~~ticrl decisiorls ahout c1roice.r elf comntuniq iir the Sozdt/re171 Appalc~clticrn regjolt with rl~e nl1l>licatio1? of ci Geogi.cphicnl inforn~ntiorr Syste111 (GIs). llle enrpiriccrl n~odel irfers u disriilctita heterogeneiv it1 [fie charctcrcris~ics of corranurri~ choices. The resr~lts also indicate that socioecoitoii~ic iiri~tii~es stlangdy affect urbciil Iiurtsing cicn~crnds while ei~~?ir-o)niizetirnl ci~nenities uffect tlzo.re of ntrnl Itousiilg cierlzatd