Housing Affordability

This post originally appeared on Orphan Road.

Following up on Matt’s post below, it’s worth linking to the Center for Neighborhood Technology’s Housing + Transportation Affordability Index. This got some play in the blogs a few months back. Here’s a map of “affordable” Puget Sound, if you only consider housing costs:

And here’s the same map of affordability when you look at housing and transportation costs combined:

Take a few minutes at the site and play with the tool. You can make all sorts of fun graphs taking into account gas prices and more.