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CENTRAL Central Ann Arbor is defined by its proximity to the University and high percentage of student housing. Recent development has increased the number of large, high capacity, high rent, buildings adjacent to the Michigan campus. These “luxury” buildings, coupled with higher enrollment rates, have dramatically increased the price of housing across Ann Arbor—with the most drastic increases happening in Central Ann Arbor. This has led to an increase in housing insecurity and availability for even undergraduate students. With this shortage of affordable housing, graduate students, university employees, and residents have had to move farther towards the edges of the city to find rents low enough to afford. Outside of student housing, the residential neighborhoods in Central Ann Arbor are among the most expensive in Washtenaw County. The Angell and parts of the Bach neighborhoods feature some of the largest homes and mansions in Ann Arbor with many of them occupied by the highest paid and socially elite employed by the university.

NORTHEAST Northeast Ann Arbor is home to the University North Campus and thus is also home to an elevated level of enrolled-student occupied housing. The neighborhoods closest to the campus (The King and Northside areas) follow similar trends to those in Central Ann Arbor, with graduate students and lower paid Michigan employees moving West of the campus. Further North of the main student residential neighborhood housing becomes more family oriented, more suburban, and more expensive. The hilly, expensive suburbs are home to much of the city’s more affluent non-white population, specifically higher percentage of Asian residents than the national average.

NORTHWEST Northwest Ann Arbor features far less dense residential neighborhoods than the rest of the city. As the city approaches Scio Township, it reaches some of its most affluent neighborhoods. The Barton Hills, Wines, and Abbott neighborhoods are extremely wealthy, housing prices high as they near central campus. Prices only rise further as the area becomes more residential and affluent. As the city turns into suburbs and Scio, housing remaining spread and residential with lot size increasing. There are apartments and newer developments, but these expensive, amenity heavy apartments are few and far between the more ubiquitous country style homes in the area.

SOUTHEAST Southeast Ann Arbor is home to some of the most affordable housing in the city. As Ann Arbor approaches Ypsilanti, housing prices decrease drastically and the number of affordably priced housing options increases. The Bryant and Pattengill elementary school district contains modestly priced and smaller homes than the average Ann Arbor neighborhood, and has far more multi-family housing complexes and buildings. There is slight variation in housing prices as the city nears the Ypsi border, but Ann Arbor generally and drastically becomes more affordable the farther away from the city center, especially as one moves further south. Here, housing prices are the generally the lowest in Ann Arbor, with house value showing the least appreciation. Atop this, this area of the city features the lowest income to rent ratio present in Ann Arbor, meaning that despite housing prices being lower and more affordable, they are still higher than the average normal price range for the average income of its residents.

SOUTHWEST Southwest Ann Arbor housing is more diverse than that found in other areas of the city. The further South and more central areas of Southwest Ann arbor trend similarly to Southeast Ann Arbor—housing prices decrease and the number of affordable housing projects and buildings increases. However, the farther North and West one looks, the housing increases in both price and number of rooms, and begins to look more like the far more expensive, country-club suburban neighborhoods like Barton Hills and Abbott.