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Housing Variables And Immigration: An Exploratory And Predictive Data Analysis In New York City, Jhonatan Medri Cobos Aug 2021

Housing Variables And Immigration: An Exploratory And Predictive Data Analysis In New York City, Jhonatan Medri Cobos

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The relationship between housing and immigration has become relevant in the U.S., especially in a highly populated metropolis such as New York City (NYC). Determining whether immigration status affects home ownership percentage, household rent, or housing cost percentage could help understand the quality of life of NYC residents. Graphical exploration, spatial dependence tests, and spatial autoregressive models of housing and immigration variables provide some insights about their relationships. Our exploration takes place at some geographic subareas of NYC.

Our results first indicate that the housing and immigration data reports spatial dependence; values of a geographic subarea are related to values …