ABSTRACT
This chapter examines housing and neighborhood characteristics and property values in census tracts with high proportions of male and female same-sex households. The unit of analysis is the census tract. It focuses on census-tract scale instead of the individual level. The chapter presents a literature review that focuses on queer clusters, differentiating between metropolitan level and the neighborhood level. It provides results of a weighted least squared (WLS) regression to explain the factors that influenced property values. There is an abundance of case studies on same-sex male and female households yet a dearth of national studies on the same populations, let alone queer households. There is also a lack of national studies on same-sex male and female households that are located in the suburbs. In regards to the age of the housing stock, the median year housing units were built in urban Census tracts was 1954, whereas in suburban Census tracts it was 1970.
