San Francisco Metblogs » land use http://sf.metblogs.com Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:59:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The cost of living in the Bay Area http://sf.metblogs.com/2009/11/06/the-cost-of-living-in-the-bay-area/ http://sf.metblogs.com/2009/11/06/the-cost-of-living-in-the-bay-area/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:24:42 +0000 Mark Pritchard http://sf.metblogs.com/?p=6277 urban_land_institute_logoA liberal think tank, the Urban Land Institute, has issued a report on the cost to working people of living in the Bay Area. The report, Bay Area Burden, examines the impact on working people of high costs of housing and transportation, looks at how proximity to mass transit helps relieve the burden, and asks policymakers to take working people’s needs into account when making land use decisions.

Their website, bayareaburden.org, has a Housing + Transportation Calculator that’s fun to play with.

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