The Global Liveability Index, despite its name, mostly overlooks such factors as whether people can afford shelter
The EIU uses 40 individual metrics to gauge a city’s livability, all of which are given relatively equal weight in calculating a city’s final score.
Affordability is similarly an empirical figure that wouldn’t be hard for the EIU to calculate; they would simply need to compare average housing prices against average incomes. But the livability index ultimately uses empirical data for only a single category: weather.Article content This might be why affordability — Vancouver’s foundational issue for the last 20 years — may not actually find its way into the livability index at all. Instead, there’s simply a category called “availability of good-quality housing” whose qualitative ranking contributes only about three per cent to the final score.Article content
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