Various organizations and agencies collect data that may be relevant to this problem. A small amount of data has been compiled and a link to an Excel spreadsheet with four worksheets of data is provided and summarized below. You are not required to use this data; that is, you may choose to use none, some, or all of this data and/or any additional data sources you may identify while working on this problem. Data sets in the real world are often incomplete or contain holes. Be sure to cite all resources used.


Download the spreadsheet of data on availability and cost of housing, population size, homelessness rates, and income levels for each of the regions.

If you use this data, please cite it as follows:
A Tale of Two Crises, MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge, curated data, https://m3challenge.siam.org/kdfrldh/.