Calculating the True Cost of Affordable Housing

The Brownsville section of the Brooklyn borough of New York is seen from a rooftop of the Seth Low Houses July 29, 2010 Shannon Stapleton / Reuters In 2006, the Brookings Institution worked with the Center for Transit Oriented Development and the Center for Neighborhood Technology to study the transportation patterns of the U.S.'s low-income population. Until then, many researchers and policymakers had assumed that larger and wealthier households owned more vehicles-and more expensive ones-and drove more miles overall. But the 2006 study found that transportation methods had less to do with......(read more)

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