U.S. Housing Affordability Tool

Deployment Site: atlas-housing-2.herokuapp.com

Project Team:

• Aaron Bini
• Michelle Erickson
• Michael Freeman
• Lizzie Goodin
• Michelle Srikhundonr

Project Pitch

The U.S. Housing Affordability Tool will provide users with a spatial visualization of the state of U.S. housing affordability for the average single family home, based on the national median income and the federal minimum wage. Additionally, users will be able to input their current salary to visualize in which U.S. counties they can afford to purchase a home, along with associated interest rates and mortgage data. The tool will pull data from the most recent U.S. census and include a complete list of economic assumptions.

User Stories

• As a user, I want to be able to see where I can afford to live based on my annual income.
• As a user, I want a visually appealing app that loads quickly and is intuitive to use.
• As a user, I want to know how I compare economically to others in my geographic area.

Developer Stories

• As a developer, I want a single page app that loads quickly and simulates multi-page apps.
• I want to make calls to multiple APIs so that the app is robust and delivers value to users.
• As a developer, I want the app to be visually appealing and easily interpretable by users.