ABSTRACT
The expanded scope of the cost-revenue methodology as it is presented in this chapter is two dimensional. First, a series of additional cost-revenue impacts are entertained, and on the basis of specific assumptions, broad concepts have been reduced to operational procedures which are placed into an expanded impact equation. In the second dimension of the cost-revenue/benefit methodology, the framework of analysis is expanded from a cross-sectional format to a longitudinal one. The bulk of such expanded analyses rests on relatively untested concepts and assumptions; thus the task of this discussion is to document them adequately. An immediately apparent impact of introducing new housing into a community relates to the personal incomes attendant to its occupants. Prototypical expenditure patterns are generally developed based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Expenditure Survey for 1972–1973. The most recent survey was completed in June 1974 and published in 1976.
