. . . this comparison of housing affordability. . .
. . .And this pictorial diagram of the average living space per person in different large cities. which is quite striking:
My favorite visual, though, is the opening one, a great example of what Nicholas Felton calls photovisualization, or “photoviz” in his most recent book. We know that many people have a hard time bridging the gap between the unavoidable abstraction of visualizations and the realities that they depict or describe, so something like this is both informative and persuasive, particularly if we pair it with more orthodox graphs and maps, as it's the case in the NYT story:
