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It's interesting that the map for minimum wage earner housing affordability is what you might expect (really unaffordable near big metro areas), and kind of smo
by abeppu 5y ago
It's interesting that the map for minimum wage earner housing affordability is what you might expect (really unaffordable near big metro areas), and kind of smooth gradations. But the "average renter" map has a lot more local variability, with extremely unaffordable metrics for some counties that are really out of the way. What's special in Skamania County, WA, or Pike County, PA, or Park County, CO?
- massysett 5y agoPark County Colorado is in ski country. Low-paying jobs and rich people bidding up what little housing there is.
- abeppu 5y agoAh, I was wondering b/c it's adjacent to Lake County which has both higher median renter wages and substantially cheaper rent.
- nate_meurer 5y agoTo add a little to the grandparent, Park County's figures are skewed to the extreme by the Breckenridge/Frisco/Dillon metropolis, which isn't actually in Park County, but rather on its border in neighboring Summit Co. Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon, Silverthorne, Keystone, and to some extent Copper Mountain are radiating an insatiable demand for affordable housing. Building is slow due to the mountainous terrain and lots of NIMBYs. Park county, in contrast, is still a working man's county. The Placer Valley, which lies over Hoosier Pass to the South of Breckenridge, is full of active mines from top to bottom, and South of that lies the vast mountain meadow called South Park. The valley and park can hold Summit's bedroom communities, and they inevitably will. It's just going to take a while to build them up.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoIn Park County, CO, a lot of what's available for rent are vacation homes.