Housing & Transportation Affordability Index
The H+T® Index provides a more complete measure of affordability.
By taking into account the cost of housing as well as the cost of transportation, H+T provides a more comprehensive understanding of the affordability of place.
Dividing these costs by the representative income illustrates the cost burden of housing and transportation expenses placed on a typical household.
While housing alone is traditionally deemed affordable when consuming no more than 30% of income, the H+T Index incorporates transportation costs—usually a household’s second-largest expense—to show that location-efficient places can be more livable and affordable. Search by your location.
CNT’s Housing and Transportation (H+T®) Affordability Index enables individuals, planners, housing professionals and policymakers to more fully grasp and act on the relationship between development patterns, transportation behavior and household transportation costs.
Author:
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Resource Date:
August, 2017
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URL:
https://htaindex.cnt.org/map/
