This layer contains the Location Affordability Index from U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - standardized household, housing, and transportation cost estimates by census tract for 8 household profiles. A brief summary of the item is not available. Add a brief summary about the item.
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Item created: Apr 18, 2019 Item updated: Oct 12, 2019 View count: 325,500
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*$11,880 for a single person household in 2016 according to US Dept. of Health and Human Services: https://aspe.hhs.gov/computations-2016-poverty-guidelines
This layer is symbolized by the percentage of housing and transportation costs as a percentage of income for the Median-Income Family profile, but the costs as a percentage of income for all household profiles are listed in the pop-up:
Also available is a gallery of 8 web maps (one for each household profile) all symbolized the same way for easy comparison:
Median-Income Family, Very Low-Income Individual, Working Individual, Single Professional, Retired Couple, Single-Parent Family, Moderate-Income Family, and Dual-Professional Family.
An accompanying story map provides side-by-side comparisons and additional context.
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Variables used in HUD's calculations include 24 measures such as people per household, average number of rooms per housing unit, monthly housing costs (mortgage/rent as well as utility and maintenance expenses), average number of cars per household, median commute distance, vehicle miles traveled per year, percent of trips taken on transit, street connectivity and walkability (measured by block density), and many more.
To learn more about the Location Affordability Index (v.3) visit: https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/location-affordability-index/. There you will find some background and an FAQ page, which includes the question:
"Manhattan, San Francisco, and downtown Boston are some of the most expensive places to live in the country, yet the LAI shows them as affordable for the typical regional household. Why?"
These areas have some of the lowest transportation costs in the country, which helps offset the high cost of housing. The area median income (AMI) in these regions is also high, so when costs are shown as a percent of income for the typical regional household these neighborhoods appear affordable; however, they are generally unaffordable to households earning less than the AMI.
- Date of Coverage: 2012-2016
- Date Released: March 2019
- Date Downloaded from HUD Open Data: 4/18/19
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Data updated: Jul 8, 2022, 4:36 PM
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No acknowledgements.HUD Open Data: https://hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/location-affordability-index-v-3 (downloaded 4/18/19)
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For LAI v3: The attributes in the shapefile table are not matching the names in the .xml document. I am looking for total transit use, transit use for renters and transit use for owners. Please email me at William.Rogers@tn.gov Thanks!