ai-lab-for-cities-at-harvard/sgarcese-housing-dashboards
Housing dashboards, refreshes and briefs for any U.S. city or county (a state works too, with fewer comparisons) from Census ACS, BLS and HUD open data: demand and tenure, construction costs and labor, and federally assisted housing, compared with the surrounding region, state and nation.
Builds an interactive housing dashboard for any U.S. city or county (a state works too, with fewer comparisons) from federal open data: ACS demand and tenure, BLS construction costs, jobs and wages, and HUD assisted housing (Section 8, 202/811, public housing, vouchers, LIHTC), compared with surrounding jurisdictions, the state and the nation. Use when someone asks for a housing dashboard, housing needs snapshot, housing market profile or affordable-housing overview for a city or county, for example a housing dashboard for Fort Wayne or a housing profile for Marion County.
Writes a short housing conditions brief or memo for a U.S. city or county (a state works too, with fewer comparisons), with recommendations first and then demand, construction economy and assisted-housing findings, using the same Census, BLS and HUD data as the housing dashboard. Use when someone asks for a housing memo, briefing, one-pager, talking points or what the data says about housing in a place, with or without an existing dashboard.
Refreshes an existing housing dashboard made by build-housing-dashboard with the latest federal data releases (new ACS year, monthly BLS prices and jobs, annual QCEW and OEWS, HUD portfolio and Fair Market Rent updates), reports what changed, rewrites affected findings and republishes to the same link. Use when someone asks to update or refresh a housing dashboard, add the new ACS or new FMRs, or rerun it for the latest month.