Measuring Housing Affordability

Copyright

2014

Published By

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

This article discusses how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) measures housing affordability and presents an analysis of custom tabulations of the 2006–2010 American Community Survey (ACS), known as the "Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) data." It presents estimates of availability of rental units and ownership units that would be affordable to prototypical households at specified income levels.