<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:description>The Location Affordability Index (LAI) estimates the percentage of a family’s income dedicated to the combined cost of housing and transportation in a given location. Because what is “affordable” is different for everyone, users can choose among a diverse set of family profiles—which vary by household income, size, and number of commuters—and see the affordability landscape for each in a given neighborhood, city, or region.
The Location Affordability Index (LAI) estimates three dependent variables of
  transportation behavior (auto ownership, auto use, and transit use) as functions of 14 independent
  variables (median income, per capita income, average household size, average commuters per household,
  residential density, gross density, block density, intersection density, transit connectivity, transit
  frequency of service, transit access shed, employment access, job diversity, and average commute
distance).
To hone in on the built environment’s influence on transportation costs, the independent
  household variables (income, household size, and commuters per household) are set at fixed values to
  control for any variation they might cause.
The LAI  also estimates two dependent variables of housing costs (Selected Monthly
  Owner Costs and Gross Rent) as functions of 16 independent variables: regional median selected monthly
  owner costs and regional median gross rent in addition to the 14 variables used in the transportation
  model.


  To learn more about the Location Affordability Index (v.1.0) visit: https://www.locationaffordability.info/LAPMethods.pdf.
  Data Dictionary: DD_Location Affordability Indev v.1.0.
Date of Coverage: 2005-2009 
https://www.locationaffordability.info/LAPMethodsV2.pdf</dc:description><dc:description>The Location Affordability Index helps to better understand the combined cost of housing and transportation.  </dc:description><dc:format>Shapefile</dc:format><dc:identifier>https://purl.stanford.edu/rw171xq8671</dc:identifier><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:publisher>United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development</dc:publisher><dc:rights>Public</dc:rights><dc:subject>Affordable housing</dc:subject><dc:subject>Economy</dc:subject><dc:subject>Boundaries</dc:subject><dc:subject>Location</dc:subject><dc:subject>Society</dc:subject><dc:title>Location Affordability Index v 1.0, 2005-2009</dc:title><dc:type>Datasets</dc:type><dc:coverage>United States</dc:coverage><dc:date>2005-2009</dc:date><dc:contributor>Stanford</dc:contributor></oai_dc:dc>