Commentary: Beaufort County’s housing crisis merits more attention — and action

Luca Gattoni-Celli advocates for more home construction to reduce prices in South Carolina's most expensive housing market.

By: Luca Gattoni-Celli

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: November 9, 2026

Words: 801

Last Updated: 11 hours, 53 minutes ago

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Beaufort County constitutes one of our country’s most unaffordable housing markets, worse than major U.S. metro areas including greater Boston, Denver, and Washington, D.C.

The median home costs 6.6 times the median income in the Hilton Head Island metropolitan statistical area, according to 2025 data mapped by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

By that metric, the only less affordable housing markets on the East Coast are Cape Cod, South Florida, and metro New …

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