Housing + Transportation - Selected Metropolitan Area Reports
The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index is an innovative tool that challenges the traditional measure of affordability used by planners, lenders, and most consumers-which recommends that housing should be less than 30 percent of income. The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index, in contrast, takes into account not just the cost of housing, but the costs of housing and transportation. The Index has received much attention from policy makers for its benefits to planners and TOD advocates and is already being used for additional research.
Fact sheets are available on the Housing + Transportation data for ten select metropolitan areas:
Atlanta
Chicago
Cleveland
Columbus
Denver
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Washington, D.C.
Funding for the Housing+Transportation Affordability Index comes from The Brookings Urban Markets Initiative, Center for Housing Policy of the National Housing Conference, The Energy Foundation, Grand Victoria Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust, Surdna Foundation, and Wallace Global Fund.