The growing affordable housing crisis in high-cost metropolitan areas may force households to seek lower cost the outer reaches of contributing recent increase commute distance. To explore this assertion, we test relationship between availability relative jobs and distance two diverse statistical Southern California: Los Angeles-Orange (higher cost, coastal, older, more urban) Riverside-San Ber...

With growing emphasis on affordability, the conceptual design of complex systems and programs is no longer confined to maximizing technical performance, but also to minimizing cost and schedule related attributes. By defining affordability as the property of becoming or remaining feasible relative to resource needs and resource constraints over time, Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration and E...

Housing affordability problems have become more serious over the course of the last few decades and are now also affecting the middle-class, despite the fall in prices on the housing market. This study proposes a methodology to assess threshold-income as an index for measuring housing affordability by applying a combination of the ratio income and residual income approaches. The methodology is ...

• 80% of the costs of care for a large population of people will be incurred by about 20% of the individuals in that population. The high and rising cost of medical care reflects principally the cost of providing care. Insurance programs are supposed to distribute costs across a large number of people in order to promote affordability. The current insurance system does not effectively do this, ...

Follow the recent Global Financial Crisis, the role of Australian Governments in providing assistance to households unable to access, afford, or maintain adequate housing has come increasingly into focus. Australia is experiencing ongoing and substantial housing affordability decline, and our cities have some of the world’s highest rates of housing un-affordability. Housing affordability direct...

This article seeks to increase the awareness of and support for the residual income approach to housing affordability indicators and standards, especially in the United States. It begins with an overview of various semantic, substantive, and definitional issues relating to the notion of affordability, leading to an argument supporting the conceptual soundness of the residual income approach. Th...

n recent years, an affordability analysis has become important for understanding the investments and the payoffs for all types of projects. Competing claims on a shrinking defense budget means that not every idea, no matter how technically sound, can be developed. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) undertakes high-risk, high-payoff endeavors that involve advanced technologies...