Beltway Burden: The Combined Cost of Housing and Transportation in the Greater Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area

Center for Neighborhood Technology (Chicago, Ill.) ,; Center for Housing Policy (Washington, D.C.),; Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing,

Beltway Burden: The Combined Cost of Housing and Transportation in the Greater Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area

Publication Date: February 2009

Publisher: Center for Housing Policy (Washington, D.C.) ; Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing; Center for Neighborhood Technology (Chicago, Ill.)

Author(s): Center for Neighborhood Technology (Chicago, Ill.) ; Center for Housing Policy (Washington, D.C.); Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing

Research Area: Social conditions

Type: Report

Coverage: District of Colombia

Abstract:

This report documents the challenges faced by working families in the Washington, DC metropolitan area who are forced to "drive â€˜till they qualify" for housing, incurring higher transportation costs that eventually erode their housing cost savings.