Lab 4: Housing Affordability
Skills Acquired: Calculated housing affordability in Vancouver and Ottawa Experimented with varying methods of reclassification for housing affordability data (natural breaks, equal interval, standard deviation, manual breaks) Classified Vancouver and Ottawa into affordability zones, ranging from “affordable” to “severely unaffordable” Learned about rules governing the delineation of Census Tracts (CTs) in Canada Classifying Housing Affordability: A Good Proxy for Livability? What are the housing affordability rating categories? Who determined them and are they to be ‘trusted’? (You have seen in the previous map how different classification breaks produce very…read more