Developing an Idea: It Hurts to Pay for Housing

In thinking about housing and housing prices by virtue of planning, development, and policy, I want to attempt to narrate a visualization /animation / interactivity of housing affordability and economic insecurity removed of numbers completely. Although I am comfortable in this environment, I wanted gain an understanding into how other people might feel with regard to housing insecurity through data and how that sentiment occurs temporally (a bit of a necessary paradox).

In doing so, I made several sketches and wrote down some ideas, but wanted to exhibit this one. The premise of this sketch is a simple comparative analysis of housing prices to housing affordability in New York City based on AMI. Assessing the level on consistency between housing prices and incomes would change the color or visual aid to reflect that metric. It is that metric, which would act as the predicate to the visualization /animation / interactivity.

If the analysis warrants additional metrics, data, or analysis to bring this point across more effectively, I will certainly include it. However, as it stands, I am continuing to develop this idea and visual aid, process the data, and solidify the code. To be continued…