Louisville's Homeownership Measures Compared to Peer Metros Our Housing Stability Benchmarking Scorecard covered seven distinct measures that fall under three larger umbrellas. The first umbrella is dedicated to homeownership. When Louisville, as our focal Met...

How does the Louisville MSA perform on homeownership-based measures compared to its closest peers?

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Peer Metros in Housing Stability: Part I Our search for the metropolitan areas that are the true housing stability peers for Louisville and Atlanta—was rooted in our aspiration, and that of many others, that the places we love reflect their ...

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Rep. Hank Johnson to honor 11 trailblazing women in DeKalb County U.S. Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) will recognize 11 pioneering women from his congressional district on March 21 at Lou Walker Senior Center in Lithonia, in honor of Women's History Month.

Rep. Hank Johnson to honor 11 trailblazing women in DeKalb County

U.S. Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) will recognize 11 pioneering women from his congressional district on March 21 at Lou Walker Senior Center in Lithonia, in honor of Women's History Month.

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After faring quite well in the home-buying affordability comparison, how do Louisville and Atlanta fare among their housing stability peers when it comes to homeownership rates?

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...When we take a step back and consider that the median for the median home-buying affordability gaps is $46,248 among these mid-sized cities and $106,923 among these large cities, it doesn’t inspire much hope for the prospects of first-time homebuyers…

Like Louisville, Atlanta has the second-widest affordability gap among its peer group and is far outpaced by the metro with the widest gap. This widest gap belongs to the __________, a jaw-dropping $268,725 home-buying affordability gap.

The home-buying affordability gaps go up a notch when Atlanta and its peer metros come into focus. Using the same (2.85)MHI standard, we see that Atlanta appears to be in the same position among its peer metros as Louisville is among its peer metros.

If we use the mean of these values as our measure of central tendency, Louisville’s home-buying affordability is $9,406 above the mean. If we use the median, Louisville’s affordability gap is $7,883 above that. Either way, Louisville’s home-buying affordability gap is wider than most of its peers.

Louisville is edging above the middle of the pack when it comes to the median gap in home-buying affordability ($54,131). By far the largest home-buying affordability gap belongs to the ______________…

Now that we’ve identified Louisville and Atlanta’s peer metros in housing stability we can start analyzing how they differ: beginning with home-buying affordability…

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The American Dream is synonymous with buying a home in a decent neighborhood. One of the pivotal questions of our time is how home-buying affordability in the present-day impacts the vitality of this deeply felt aspiration.

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The Louisville context allows us to conduct benchmarking analyses with less anxiety; however, the Atlanta context offers richer opportunities for groundbreaking findings on the relationship between population dynamics and socioeconomic outcomes.

In both cases, the metro that emerged as the closest peer did so in a clear way. Both ‘crossed the finish line’ with plenty of distance between them and second place. This provides us with a great opportunity to explore a series of comparisons between our core metros and their closest peers.

Peer Metros in Housing Stability: Part II The content and blogging home for Kiaspo, an organizational research consultancy.

By putting the data first and establishing an objective criteria, we were able to identify the true peer metros of Louisville and Atlanta when it comes to housing stability...

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Peer Metros in Housing Stability: Part I The content and blogging home for Kiaspo, an organizational research consultancy.

We're excited to reveal the housing stability-focused peer metros for Louisville and Atlanta. It was too much data and information for one post, so we're breaking it up into two parts.

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Today was a busy one, but I'm happy to get things set up for sharing some new and innovative data on the true housing stability peers for Louisville and Atlanta.

It was too much for one post, so we have a two-parter coming up for our subscribers. 🙏🏾❤️

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Atlanta's Peer Metros in Housing Stability: Black Population Percentage Throughout our journey so far, there has been a clear pattern where Atlanta’s peer metros have shown themselves to be rather loosely tied to Atlanta. This sense of looseness stands out even more when ...

This final measure confirms that what makes Metro Atlanta unique is its overall population size, its socioeconomic profile, and the percentage of its Black population.

We dig into this, making sense of how these metrics stood alone and interwove to produce our list.

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Louisville's Peer Metros in Housing Stability: Black Population Percentage The final metric that we put to use in the quest to find Louisville’s peer metros in housing stability is Black population percentage. Similar to the MSA population metric, this one is a more indirect...

The fifth and final measure we used to find Louisville's peer metros in housing stability was Black population percentage.
We made a few notes on the complex legacy that this metric accounts for and how its range of values compares to the other metrics.

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Atlanta's Peer Metros in Housing Stability: Poverty Rates The pattern that ties Atlanta with its peer metros with respect to poverty rates is a familiar one at this point. To quickly recap, the pattern has been two peer metros being relatively close to the A...

There's been a consistent pattern so far where two of Atlanta's peer metros have values close to the Atlanta value on a particular measure and the remaining metros have values that are relatively far. This pattern continues with poverty rates.

It'll all make sense...

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Louisville's Peer Metros in Housing Stability: Poverty Rates The fourth metric that we used to identify Louisville’s peer metros is poverty rates. This is a pivotal measure of housing stability and a reliable indicator of the limitations in the current opportun...

Poverty rates are pivotal measures of housing stability and reliable indicators of the limitations in the opportunity structure...
Check out how Louisville and its peer metros relate on this metric.

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Overall, these findings indicate that the metrics we’ll share later this week play a consequential role in the story of which metro areas are the most apples-to-apples comparable to Louisville and Atlanta.

In our blog series, we have covered three measures out of the total five, namely: 1) MSA population, 2) median home values, and 3) median household income.

PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF LOU & ATL'S PEER METROS COMPARISON (HOUSING STABILITY) LOUISVILLE Final Proximity MSA Population MHV MHI Preliminary Proximity 1 2 1 4 2.3 2 1 1 2 1.3 3 3 2 5 3.3 4 4 3 1 2.7 5 5 4 3 4.0 ATLANTA Final Proximity MSA Population MHV MHI Preliminary Proximity 1 2 2 2 2.0 2 1 4 4 3.0 3 4 1 1 2.0 4 3 3 3 3.0 5 5 5 5 5.0

So far—after identifying the five metros that are in closest proximity to Louisville and Atlanta—we have noted some interesting patterns when comparing the metric-by-metric preliminary results to the final results.

Atlanta’s Peer Metros in Housing Stability: Median Household Income In our previous post, we mentioned how signs are indicating that Atlanta is a unique metro, especially in comparison to Louisville. This finding emerged from looking at the expansive range of values t...

In Atlanta, we continue to see evidence that it is a unique metropolitan area when it comes to housing stability. Evidence suggests that its peer metros in this respect are connected to Atlanta in a relatively loose way.

We will certainly look closer at this...

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Louisville's Peer Metros in Housing Stability - Median Household Income The third metric in our analysis that we used to find Louisville’s peer metros was median household income, which powers housing affordability. Among Louisville and its peers the range of values is ti...

We noticed a tight range of values for Louisville and its peer metros along the median household income metric.

Given the pivotal role that household income plays in housing stability this is interesting and promising for benchmarking processes.

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