The Housing Mismatch
Pick a place. This walks through what its housing situation actually is,
how it got that way, and what can be done about it — one idea at a time, from public Census data.
Census API key
Only needed when the page is opened outside its deployment.
Published, the key lives in a server environment variable and never reaches the
browser. Stored here in this browser only; sent nowhere but census.gov.
Geography
City / Town
County
Metro
State
City finances — optional
The Strong Towns Finance Decoder, from the city’s annual financial report.
Read here, confirmed by you, and shown as a step in the presentation. Skip it and the
step does not appear.
Analyze this geography