Regional Planning Grant Data, Select Portland Metro Areas: Only the City of Portland is BELOW the National Housing Transportation Affordability Target.

In the HUD Regional Planning Grant NOFA, Factor 1.2 measures the "Portion of Regional Population Paying More than 45% of Income to Combined Housing and Transportation Costs".

Using the H+T index that is used to establish values for this factor I have pasted below a table showing the Housing AND Housing +Transportation values for select areas in the Portland Metro area. (I also added a column to the right, which is the Transportation value when the Housing value is subtracted from the H+T value).

Notes:

1. EXCEPT for the City of Portland, ALL of these select areas have values that EXCEED the national affordability standard of 45% of income.
2. Within these select areas, Lake Oswego is the LEAST affordable, with average H+T costs of 62% of income.
3. Among the three counties, Clackamas is the least affordable, with an average H+T index value of 55.8%.

Area	Housing	H +T	T?
Portland--Vancouver, OR--WA	28.6%	50.1%	21.5%
Beaverton	27.6%	47.9%	20.3%
Clackamas County	32.7%	55.8%	23.1%
Gresham	25.1%	46.4%	21.3%
Hillsboro	27.0%	48.2%	21.2%
Lake Oswego	40.6%	62.0%	21.4%
Multnomah County	26.0%	45.6%	19.6%
Portland	25.4%	44.4%	19.0%
Washington County	29.7%	51.2%	21.5%

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.