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A Heavy Load: The Combined Housing and Transportation Burdens of Working Families
By Center for Housing Policy. October 11, 2006Among other innovations this study presents for the first time the combined housing and transportation cost burdens of working families in metropolitan areas at the neighborhood level It also provides an overview of where working families live in each of the areas and how their location decisions affect their commute…
http://www.cnt.org/repository/heavy_load_10_06.pdf (4,490.9kb) - ReportHousing and Transportation Cost Trade-offs and Burdens of Working Families in 28 Metros
By CNT, Virginia Tech. October 11, 2006This study examines neighborhood housing and transportation choices available to working households in U S metropolitan areas The purpose is to determine how constraints within the neighborhood and the region e g lack of access to transportation choices distance from job centers shortages of affordable housing affect household costs and…
http://www.cnt.org/repository/H-T-Tradeoffs-for-Working-Families-n-28-Metros-FULL.pdf (7,210.4kb) - ReportPresentation at the APA Upper-Midwest 4 State Conference
By CNT, Carrie Makarewicz. October 4, 2006Center for Transit Oriented Development
PowerPoint presentation outlining CNT's work on the Housing and Tranportation Affordability Index and how it works, who can use the tool, and the project timeline.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/Affordability-Index-APA-Midwest-4-State.ppt (4,807.0kb) - PresentationClimate Factsheet
October 1, 2006http://www.cnt.org/repository/Factsheet-Climate.pdf (419.4kb) - Backgrounder
Kane County Energy Plan
October 1, 2006http://www.cnt.org/repository/kane-county-energy-plan.pdf (13,572.5kb) - Presentation
Housing + Transportation: Moving the Region Toward Greater Affordability
By CNT. June 29, 2006Center for Transit Oriented Development
A presentation delivered to a gathering of regional leaders in Chicago to disucss ways to apply CNT's Affordability Index in the Chicago region.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/June_29_06.Final.pdf (1,596.8kb) - PresentationAffordability Index: A New Tool for Measuring the True Affordability of a Housing Choice, The
By CNT, Center for Transit Oriented Development. February 1, 2006Reconnecting America
A brief published by the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program that describes the method behind the Affordability Index and the application of this tool in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/AffordabilityIndexBrief.pdf (3,816.3kb) - ReportHigh Speed Rail and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the U.S.
By CNT, Center for Clean Air Policy. January 1, 2006A corridor-by-corridor estimate of the potential annual greenhouse gas benefits -- from emissions reductions -- of high speed rail systems in the U.S. based on current plans for high speed rail development in the federally designated high speed rail corridors.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/HighSpeedRailEmissions.pdf (899.3kb) - ReportAnnual Report 2004
By CNT. August 1, 2005http://www.cnt.org/repository/Annual-Report-2004.pdf (1,575.4kb) - Report
Rethinking Affordability: The Inherent Value of TOD
By Scott Bernstein, Carrie Makarewicz. August 1, 2005An article published in the newsletter of the Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD) about the Affordability Index, a new measure for valuing transportation investments and thinking about the cost of housing.
http://www.cnt.org/repository/H-T-CTOD-Newsltr-0905.pdf (558.5kb) - Article
