New Report: Housing + Transportation Costs Outpacing Incomes Nationwide

From the report, Losing Ground: The Struggle of Moderate-Income Households to Afford the Rising Costs of Housing and Transportation by the Center for Housing Policy & the Center for Neighborhood Technology, October 2012.

“The combined costs of housing and transportation in the nation’s largest 25 metro areas have swelled by 44 percent since 2000 while incomes have failed to keep pace, according to a new report from the Center for Housing Policy-the research affiliate of the National Housing Conference-and the Center for Neighborhood Technology. The report, Losing Ground: The Struggle of Moderate-Income Households to Afford the Rising Costs of Housing and Transportation, details the challenges that American households face as the combined costs of housing and transportation consume an ever-larger share of household incomes…” PDF of Full Report

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