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Housing
The indicators in the following list are those rated 5 or higher from Appendix A of the 
The Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators, Second Edition, by Maureen Hart, 1999.
Availability Indicators:
- House price to income ratio
- Number of homeless people
- Distribution of affordable housing throughout city
- Homeownership rate
- Share of new housing units going into incorporated parts of county
- Waiting time for subsidized housing
- Annual applicants for affordable housing
- Single family housing growth compared to population growth
- Number of people using homeless shelters
- Floor area per person in housing
- Low-income housing with severe physical problem
- Percent of dwellings in need of major repair
- Housing that is inadequate, overcrowded, or costs over 30% of income
- Affordability of single family home
- Renters who cannot afford to live in the city
- Low-income renters paying more than 30 percent of income on rent
- Home ownership rate
- Number of new homes that are energy-efficient
- Housing affordability ratio - rent prices
- Median family income as percent of median single family house price
- Median family income as percent of average rent on two-bedroom apartment
- Median family income as percent of annual single family house mortgage payment
- Percent of households able to afford buying median single family house
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