Terwilliger Center Research
Priced Out: Persistence of the Workforce Housing Gap in the Boston Metro Area
This report examines the availability of for-sale and rental housing near six major employment hubs in the Boston area, specifically in terms of housing that is affordable to workforce households, or those with incomes ranging from 60 percent to 100 percent of the area median income (AMI). Approximately 23 percent – or more than 600,000 households fall in this income range. The analysis was based on proximity of workforce housing within a 30- to 45-minute in-traffic commute of the employment centers of downtown Boston, Route 128 North, Route 128 West, Framingham, Route 128 South, and Route 3 North.
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The Boston Regional Challenge analyzes the combined costs of housing and transportation for neighborhoods, cities, and towns throughout a Boston regional study. Our analysis finds that the typical household in the study area spends upwards of $22,000 annually on housing, which represents roughly 35 percent of the median household income ($68,036). With transportation costs for the typical household reaching nearly $12,000 annually, the combined costs of housing and transportation account for roughly 54 percent of the typical household’s income.
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Priced Out: Persistence of the Workforce Housing Gap in the San Francisco Bay Area
Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area is persistantly and pervasively unaffordable despite the recent economic and housing market downturn. If current trends are any indication, housing production between 2009 and 2025 will leave unmet demand for at least 6,000 for-sale housing units appropriate for workforce households.
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Bay Area Burden: Examining the Costs and Impacts of Housing and Transportation on Bay Area Residents, Their Neighborhoods, and the Environment
Bay Area Burden provides a comprehensive analysis of the "cost of place" in nine counties located throughout the San Francisco region by examining the costs and impacts of housing and transportation on Bay Area residents, their neighborhoods, and the environment.
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www.bayareaburden.org
Priced Out: Persistence of the Workforce Housing Gap in the Washington, D.C., Metro Area
Despite recent shifts in the regional housing market, land values and home prices in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area remain unattainable for a large potion of workforce households. While the metro area as a whole experienced an increase in affordability over the past few years, this study finds the workforce households-those with incomes 60 to 100 percent of the area median income (AMI)- are priced out of rental and for-sale housing proximate to major employment centers.
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Beltway Burden: The Combined Cost of Housing and Transportation in the Greater Washington DC Metropolitan Area
The Terwilliger Center's most recent report documents the challenges faced by area working families who are forced to "drive 'til they qualify" for housing, incurring higher transportation costs that eventually erode their housing cost savings.
As a complement to Beltway Burden, the Terwilliger Center released the Terwilliger Cost Calculator, which provides consumers with up-to-date Washington, D.C. metro area housing and transportation cost data that they can use to make informed decisions on where to live and work.
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Best Practices in Workforce Housing Development
This book showcases the seven winners and finalists of the first J. Ronald Terwilliger Models of Excellence Awards Program. These projects each represent a model of creative and innovative solutions that can be replicated across the country to help solve the workforce housing problem. They are examples of ways to get workforce housing built through creative uses of land, financing, policies, and programs. (Order#B37)
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Community Workforce Housing Innovation Pilot (CWHIP) Program: A Model for Replication
Innovative State-Wide Workforce Housing Program Studied
The Terwilliger's newest publication, Community Workforce Housing Innovation Pilot (CWHIP) Program: A Model for Replication is an evaluation of the State of Florida’s 2-year, $112.4 innovative program whose aim was to act as a catalyst for public/private partnerships to develop workforce housing. The program encouraged local government to provide regulatory and financial incentives, forge public/private partnership and expand affordable rental and homeownership opportunities for Florida’s workforce.
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Defining the Need for Workforce Housing in Atlanta: Recent Trends and Policy Recommendations The Center's study provides detailed analysis of current demographic and economic conditions in the Atlanta region, which describe the continuing need for workforce housing in the region and the challenges inherent in meeting it. The report provides a baseline for understanding the current market and how developers can respond to it.
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Workforce Housing and Mixed-Income Communities: The ULI Megapriority Highlights from the ULI District Council Workforce and Mixed-Income Housing Forum held in Boulder, Colorado on April 16-17, 2008.
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Workforce Housing in the West: Opportunities and Challenges in a Time of Change A Regional Forum: Sustainable Workforce and Mixed-Income Housing in the West: Opportunities and Challenges in a Changing Market held April 15–16, 2008 in Boulder, Colorado
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Regulatory Barriers and Workforce Housing: An Essential Reading List
An extensive bibliography of reports, studies, and commisions that address the issue of reducing residential development costs and eliminating exclusionary land use practices.
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Workforce Housing: Innovative Strategies and Best Practices This book describes some of the most innovative and successful strategies that have produced housing that working families can afford. Discover how three communities and one state changed their policies to make moderately priced housing more attractive to the development community and how 11 innovative workforce housing projects were developed—including condominiums, townhouses, and single-family detached homes. (Order #F19)
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eBook version available at www.uli.org/ebookstore.
Developing Housing for the Workforce
A Tool Kit
Increasingly, workers such as teachers, firefighters, retail managers, and nurses cannot find housing they can afford in the communities where they work. This new book describes the problem; includes case studies and examples of financially feasible, for-profit developments; and features a section on public and private programs that are being used to encourage the development of housing for the workforce. (Order #W20) Call 800-321-5011 or visit www.uli.org/books to order.
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