Use Case
Housing & Real Estate
Navigate the market with a deep understanding of community resilience and climate risk factors. Target resources, increase returns, and reduce risk, with cutting-edge data and mapping software.
Get quick answers to critical housing questions at the state, county, and city level
Rental Assistance & Foreclosure Prevention
Target rental assistance and other subsidies to vulnerable communities.
- Where are small-unit landlords located who are most at risk in high social vulnerability and economically stressed communities?
- How might the need for rental or mortgage assistance change with weekly unemployment numbers?
- How can we focus outreach to communities that are under-represented in the rental or mortgage assistance application pool (relative to level of need)?
Scenario Planning & Policy Advocacy
Measure the impact of zoning and other policy changes.
- How many affordable housing units can be created under zoning or regulatory changes in my region?
- Where should we place new housing to increase access to transit and parks?
- How many more housing units could we accommodate if we replaced single-use commercial strip development with mixed-use buildings?
- How do our land use decisions impact environmental justice?
Housing Finance
Evaluate community resilience and climate risk to score real estate investments nationwide.
Generate a detailed profile of property, population, and value.
- Which multi-family housing sites have the highest potential return on social bonds?
- Which real-estate sites pose the highest portfolio risk based on potential for sea level rise, wildfires, storm surge, or flooding?
Site Selection
Compare affordable housing sites across a variety of social vulnerability and climate risk criteria.
- Where on publicly owned land can affordable housing be optimally sited based on access to transit, social vulnerability, and economic stress?
- Where should we place new housing to avoid environmental hazards? How do these choices address environmental justice issues?
- How do land use choices impact our climate action goals (emissions, energy and water use)?
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