Monthly Archives: November 2015

Rent distributions in American’s urban areas

At City Observatory, Daniel Kay Hertz convincingly demonstrates that affordability can’t always be measured using aggregate figures, like median home value: For an illustration of this problem, imagine two neighborhoods. In both places, the median home costs $300,000. But in the first neighborhood, every home … Continue reading

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Can we stop using the word “subsidy”?

Here are two sub-headlines in a Streetsblog post about recent transportation referendums: Seattle’s property tax increase to fund walking, biking, and transit Voters have spoken and they decided to enact Move Seattle, the $900 million property tax levy for transportation. … Continue reading

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