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

• Civic maps
• Justice tech

HousingMaps was the very first Google Maps mashup, created before there was a Google Maps API. It overlaid Craigslist apartment and housing listings on a map, for some 30 US cities plus London.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

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

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

The mission of ANHD is to build community power to win affordable housing and thriving, equitable neighborhoods for all New Yorkers. As a coalition of community groups across New York City, we use research, advocacy, and grassroots organizing to support our members in their work to build equity and justice in their neighborhoods and citywide.

• housing

Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

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

• housing

• Media
• Working groups
• Expert networks

We are a community of tech workers who believe that the tech boom can and should benefit every resident.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Pro bono and volunteer

We have been commissioned by Wheatley Group, a major provider of social housing, care and other services in Scotland*, to explore how they can engage better with their customers – facilitating customers to shape the services they receive. The Chartered Institute of Housing are also working with us on this project to ensure our learnings are spread into the wider housing sector.

• housing

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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
• cities

• Data visualization

What is your city doing to upgrade informal settlements?

• informal settlements
• housing
• cities

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government transparency

2020 UNDP initiative to assist the Republic of Vanuatu in the supervision of registration of electors and the planning and implementation of democratic elections for parliament, province, and municipal councils.

• Emerging tech
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

FixMyBlock aims to cut through the jargon and empower residents. Find out everything your landlords should be doing to keep tower blocks safe — and what to do if they aren’t.

• housing
• landlord

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

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

• housing
• surveillance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

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

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• cities

• Playbooks and design principles

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

ConsiliumBots uses technology and data to help people make important decisions by turning complex and underutilized information into virtual assistance and personalized recommendations across education, housing, and other areas of government programs. Research has shown that providing relevant information at the right time can make a significant difference in students' trajectory by reducing school dropouts and introducing education options with better job prospects. They have so far created 36 digital solutions to address information asymmetries, supporting 3.9 million parents, students, and teachers from over 7 countries in the region. Some of these digital solutions have now been adopted as national public policies.

• Access social benefits
• Behavioral economics programs

Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans

• cities

• Govtech
• Partner networks
• Smart Cities and sensors

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

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Report cards and audits

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 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

UkraineTakeShelter.com is an independent platform helping to connect Ukrainian refugees with potential hosts and housing.

• housing
• Ukraine

• Resource matching and sharing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artistic interventions

"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

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Все про ОСББ в Україні

• housing

We help essential professionals buy homes.

• Decent work and economic growth
• housing

• Fintech for good

Mapping data on economic security, housing, health, education and more in NYC

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Polétika República Dominicana is a group of civil society organizations and movements that work in different areas, including: health, housing and habitat, taxation, citizen security, transparency, childhood and adolescence, gender, and municipality.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive. Then, they will start getting notifications, assigned to one of six categories: alarms (emergencies), safety (e.g. meteorological warnings), breakdowns (e.g. water and sewage), housing estate (neighbourhood messages directed from individual housing estate councils), air (smog reports, exceeded dust particle limits, free communication), transport (road works, communication difficulties).

• apps
• cities

• Issue reporting

The 2020 documentary explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts, from racial justice, housing, climate change action and more. Wiseman's documentaries do not have a standard narrative arc, narration, or interviews, but are based on observation of day-to-day organizational life, in this case the activities of Boston's city government in fall 2018 and winter 2019. Much of the film follows Mayor Marty Walsh in activities such as meetings with aides, addressing business leaders about the impact of climate change on the Harbor, listening to veterans at Faneuil Hall on November 11, observing Thanksgiving Day at Goodwill Industries, and giving his state of the city address at Symphony Hall. A second major theme of the film is public servants helping people in need: the eviction prevention task force, another task force on economic advancement for Latina women, and an economic development adviser working with an ethnically-focused grocery store.[2]

• Govtech
• Shows and films

The People’s Bus is a bus formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island; it has been transformed with input from New Yorkers into a community center on wheels, with the purpose of engaging people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions
• Citizen Engagement

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
• Resource matching and sharing

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

Find help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The Affidavit Assistant helps you collect information for your case

• apps
• housing

• Legal tech

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

• Engagement 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

"A collaboration among several street artists and Carol Ott, proprietor of the Baltimore Slumlord Watch blog, the group has painted murals on about a dozen vacant buildings in the city so far this summer."

• housing

• Artistic interventions

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Heat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.

• housing

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Legal tech

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling

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