The Non-Political Housing Affordability Thread

[WhichReligionIsRight]

Found a great map showing housing affordability across the USA x county. I find this totally fascinating. Unfortunately, the counties in the NE are really small - especially near big cities - so it can be hard to suss out affordability in places like Northern NJ from this map.

 

[WhichReligionIsRight]

I'm fascinated by how California and Florida have about the same levels of affordability - along with Tennessee. Or better said - un-affordability.

 

[RUevolution36]

there's no chance that this stays non-political. in before the lock.

 

[ScarletDave]

Some data is skewed because this is only looking at averages. Two clear examples - western Montana and Western North Carolina, the darkest red concentrated splotches - both very mountainy and full of multi-million dollar mansions/mountain homes. Then, the people who live in these more remote areas are more likely to make less money compared to city folk. So, it skews both sides of the indexes of this chart.

The small town folk up there aren’t living in the houses “up the mountain” and likewise, the people who own those houses aren’t working at the local logging plant or the mom n pop BBQ restaurant on Main Street.

Would be better to look at percentages in this case, or even raw numbers

 

[WhichReligionIsRight]

The numbers are for median affordability. I think the median is a pretty good representation.

 

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

Non political 👌

best of luck with that!🤭

 

[mdk01]

I'm fascinated by how California and Florida have about the same levels of affordability - along with Tennessee. Or better said - un-affordability.

Based on median household income. Well that would skew the hell out of Florida with the retirees purchasing with the sales proceeds of their house up north and living on retirement income.

 

[fsg2]

Some data is skewed because this is only looking at averages. Two clear examples - western Montana and Western North Carolina, the darkest red concentrated splotches - both very mountainy and full of multi-million dollar mansions/mountain homes. Then, the people who live in these more remote areas are more likely to make less money compared to city folk. So, it skews both sides of the indexes of this chart.

The small town folk up there aren’t living in the houses “up the mountain” and likewise, the people who own those houses aren’t working at the local logging plant or the mom n pop BBQ restaurant on Main Street.

Would be better to look at percentages in this case, or even raw numbers

Mountain towns have become notorious for this. Past few years have accelerated it to crisis levels in ski towns and other major tourist destinations.

Becoming less and less sustainable to where workforce is forced to live in RVs or commute an hour or two (over dangerous snowy roads a lot of times).