In just five months, 850+ residents engaged as Westminster’s Church Street team shifted from spreadsheets to real-time, data-driven engagement to build affordable homes in the community.

• housing

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Specific digital participation instances

Academic research project on algorithmic risk assessments mediating access to private renting, social housing, mortgages.

• housing

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Highlights from legislative theatre events in 2020 with GM Homelessness Action Network, the GM Combined Authority, and GM Housing First.

• housing
• homelessness

• Legislative theater

Algorithmic rent-price setting company

• housing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

taxem é um movimento que propõe uma mudança drástica na fiscalidade da habitação em Portugal, nomeadamente nas zonas urbanas, onde actualmente os preços da habitação estão incomportáveis para quem ganhe salários típicos de Portugal.

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Devolutos is a pro-bono project built by a collective of activists to map Lisbon's empty housing and encourage the government to tax their owners to prompt redevelopment.

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Crowdsourcing

Official government portal for open planning and housing data

• housing

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Open government data

A new AI tool aims to modernise council planning by replacing outdated paper systems with high-quality digital data, enabling faster, smarter decisions to support the government’s goal of building 1.5 million homes.

• housing
• land

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Urban planning

The Miami Affordability Project (MAP) is an interactive online map providing data on the distribution of affordable housing, housing needs, demographic profiles, and environmental resiliency in greater Miami.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Renters that received an informational postcard were 52% more likely to request an application for rental assistance and 24% more likely to submit an application than renters that did not receive a postcard.

• housing

• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the people
• Democratic Innovations

Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) is a collective impact project that brings together housing providers, researchers, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experiment with and learn about ways of effectively building community, social connectedness and resilience in B.C.’s fast-growing vertical communities.

• housing
• city
• social isolation

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Urban planning

Employing a broad definition of AI, this report represents the first known effort to comprehensively explain and quantify the reach of AI-based decision-making among low-income people in the United States.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities
• Good health and well-being

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Access social benefits

How AI-powered tenant screening hurts renters: Research paper by TechEquity Collaborative

• housing
• landlord
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Landlord database & interactive map to promote property ownership transparency in rental markets

• landlord
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data science for social good

Terner Labs scales critical housing innovations at the intersection of equity, affordability, and sustainability.

• housing

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

Our best-performing model can potentially help TSU find 59% more buildings where tenants face landlord harassment than the current outreach method using the same resources.

• housing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people

(with Isandla Institute)

• informal settlements
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

Gazteparte es el primer espacio digital para escuchar la opinión y las propuestas  de los jóvenes y trasladarlas a las instituciones públicas.

• housing
• youth

• Engagement tech
• Specific campaigns

• housing
• United Nations

We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. 

• Reduced inequalities
• electricity
• housing

Unlocking the potential of New York’s public spaces.

• city
• public space
• mental health

• Design

Resources and story-based campaign for tenants' rights in Slovenia

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Story-based campaigns

A service of the Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), here to help Illinois tenants facing housing issues

• housing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Bots

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Data visualization

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

• housing
• surveillance
• landlord

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Housing Courts Must Change! (HCMC) is a statewide campaign launched by the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition in 2020 to transform the courts across New York State (NYS) from an “eviction machine” to a place that holds landlords accountable, upholds tenants’ rights, and enables tenants to remain in their homes.

• housing

• Specific campaigns
• Civic maps
• Open justice

Join the thousands of renters rating and reviewing their landlord, letting agent and rental properties.

• housing

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

The aim of this study was to assess the current use of smartphones by the masons of the informal settlements of Iringa, Tanzania, and to identify pathways for improving their construction practices.

• informal settlements
• housing

• Peer-reviewed research
• Smartphones

The Welcome Alliance is an alliance of civil society organizations, foundations, state institutions and companies initiated by ProjectTogether. Our goal is humane, needs-oriented and sustainable integration and participation of all new immigrants in Germany.

• immigration
• housing
• Decent work and economic growth

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid

Dive into our Know Your City (KYC) portal, home to community-collected slum data from over 5,000 slums in more than 18 countries across the global south.

• housing
• Reduced inequalities
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

Use this free tool from JustFix to research your building and investigate landlords! We use property ownership mapping to identify a landlord's portfolio

• housing

• Civic data
• Consumer watchdogging

The mission of ANHD is to build community power to win affordable housing and thriving, equitable neighborhoods for all New Yorkers

• housing

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Все про ОСББ в Україні

• housing

We help essential professionals buy homes.

• Decent work and economic growth
• housing

• Fintech for good

Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt

• housing

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.

• housing
• Airbnb
• civic features

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A Roof is a solution for identifying accommodation spaces to help refugees who arrive in Romania and need help immediately.

• Ukraine
• refugees
• housing

• Resource matching and sharing

The Affidavit Assistant helps you collect information for your case

• apps
• housing

• Legal tech

Baltimore City Council Bill 19-0429 requires the Department of Housing & Community Development to post signage on vacant buildings that will identify owners so that they can be held accountable by the public.

• housing
• place-based

• Cameras

Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.

• guides
• housing
• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital literacy

The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate on their use of public data to further housing justice in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling

Technology for Housing Justice

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech

Open collaborative network for journalists and other researches, experts and engaged people working on housing across Europe

• housing

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms
• Solutions journalism

The Displacement Alert Map is a rich resource of more than a decade of key data on residential displacement in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit (PEU) proactively connects New Yorkers to key City services, like housing and healthcare.

• Good health and well-being
• housing

• Canvassing & Doorknocking