CommunityScale is a pioneering urban planning and spatial data analysis company serving customers across the United States.
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communityscale.com/rockland-… 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.
ALT This chart decomposes changes in housing affordability into two factors: the price-to-income ratio and mortgage rates. Each line shows the cumulative contribution of that factor to the change in the affordability gap (the difference between income required to purchase a typical home and median income). The decomposition uses Shapley value attribution to fairly allocate changes across correlated factors. https://communityscale.com/rockland-me-comprehensive-housing-plan/
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This #fairhousing month we analyzed counties and municipalities to measure how housing growth, cost burden, and racial disparity interact. Interactive charts communityscale.com/fair-hous…
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Our data center zoning warm take communityscale.com/how-zonin…
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We built app.communityscale.io 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: communityscale.com/introduci…
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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 app.communityscale.io/ #Affordability #Housing #UrbanPlanning
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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. app.communityscale.io
#housing #affordability #gildedage
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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 app.communityscale.io/
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We compared Zillow's algorithm-based home value index (ZHVI) to the ACS's self-reported median home value across 998 large US counties. Explore home values for any US county at app.communityscale.io
#HousingData #HomeValues #CensusData #CommunityScale #RealEstate #UrbanPlanning
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communityscale.com/notable-t… 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.
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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. communityscale.com/housing-l…
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communityscale.io/housing-sh… 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.
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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 communityscale.io/careers/#p…
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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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4. Require all municipalities to create multi-family zoning districts
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5. Revise the state building Code to allow the construction of single-stairway residential buildings of up to 6 stories and 24 units
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