https://t.co/maShGGSxKC The @CityOfRockland is notable in that it has already identified that it has a housing crisis, already adopted permissive zoning for housing, and, while we were engaged with the community, passed a $10M housing bond to support workforce housing.
This #fairhousing month we analyzed counties and municipalities to measure how housing growth, cost burden, and racial disparity interact. Interactive charts https://t.co/O05IK0YeD3
We built https://t.co/Cj7HKXEBpW to tell every US community's housing story with time series data from ACS, BLS, HUD, and additional sources.
Read more and explore the map: https://t.co/w5z5kXpSCO
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Where can your household's income afford the typical home? Interactive map combines typical home prices, mortgage rates, property taxes, and insurance into a single number -- check it out on the homepage of https://t.co/oSkjAB0ixf #Affordability#Housing#UrbanPlanning
You'd need to earn $4M/year to afford the typical home on Jupiter Island, FL. Beverly Hills? Just $742K. Even in Jackson Hole, it's "only" $518K. America's new gilded age is rewriting the map of housing affordability. https://t.co/Cj7HKXEBpW
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CommunityScale's housing affordability data combines monthly home value estimates with current mortgage rates, property taxes, and homeowner's insurance. Find your community at https://t.co/oSkjAB0ixf
https://t.co/o0eGyC50qj We finally got our arms around the 2024 ACS data. The Sun Belt boom continued. 79 of 91 large cities saw renter share drop below trend. Full analysis on our blog.
Our Housing Library, created in partnership with Neighbor Architects, includes 11 middle density housing types with multiple variations, illustrating a density range from 26 to 86 units per acre. https://t.co/2ndQBl7fC5
https://t.co/w72MxBBnCK Defining what a healthy housing market equilibrium looks like is the first step to understanding current housing shortages, and in the case of CommunityScale, forecasting the future housing need as well.
CommunityScale is looking for an urban planning project manager with around 3-5 years of experience. Expertise in housing and/or zoning is preferred. Application instructions in the link https://t.co/4k6LAGryoc
Most impactful recommendations from MA's Building for Tomorrow report
1. Allow two-family homes on all residential lots and four-family homes on all residential lots where there is existing water and sewer infrastructure
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