An interactive study by Ahmadreza Samadi across 393 US metropolitan areas. It compares illustrative ownership cash budgets with HUD FY2027 two-bedroom gross rent estimates and Census ACS2024 median owner-occupied home values. These describe different housing populations, not matched properties or observed investment returns.

Edit assumptions, inspect separate HUD rent areas and owner-value sensitivity, and download the scenarios as CSV. The site includes methodology, source notes and attributed chart embeds.

Code and reproducible data notes: https://github.com/ahmadreza-smdi/rent-own-metro-study

The original code is MIT licensed; federal-source and font reuse qualifications are documented separately. CITATION.cff and quarterly refresh instructions are included.