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 modern system that helps people learn about, apply for, and gain access to 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. 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

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

"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
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Все про ОСББ в Україні

• housing

We help essential professionals buy homes.

• Decent work and economic growth
• housing

• Fintech for good

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

Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt

• housing

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

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

"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

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

Alojamento para profissionais de saúde

• housing

• COVID
• Resource matching and sharing
• COVID Engagement Projects

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

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Housing

Project Homeless Connect connects San Franciscans experiencing homelessness with the care they need to move forward.

• homelessness
• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Housing

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 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

Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.

• homelessness
• housing

• Bots
• Emerging Tech Projects
• Access social benefits

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling
• Housing

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
• Graveyard

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Data visualization

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

• housing

• Media
• Engagement journalism
• Housing

The Land Access for Neighborhood Development (LAND) mapping tool visualizes the distribution of local institutional and government-owned vacant and underused properties.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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
• Help out

3d printed homes

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• 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
• Emerging tech

TenantsMap shows residential buildings with rent-regulated units throughout Manhattan and their volume of housing safety-related 311 service requests, which is updated daily.

• housing

• Data visualization
• 311 Systems

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
• translation

• Canvassing

Arizona Eviction Help makes it easier for tenants to learn about eviction hearings, identify potential defenses to useand create court documents to use.

• housing

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Neighborland is a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way.

• housing

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

DAP Portal is a comprehensive new research tool that includes dozens of datasets indicating harassment and potential displacement from New York City housing.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

BuiltWorlds is the premier research-driven network operating at the intersection of the built industry and technological innovation

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Housing

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 Displacement Alert Project uses data and information visualization tools to proactively identify buildings that are facing a high risk of displacement. With this information, community organizations, decision markers, and local residents can push back with outreach, education, organizing strategies, and policy change.

• housing

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

Balancing Act is a fun and easy way for residents to learn about public budgets and the choices their elected officials face in the budgeting process.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Technology for Housing Justice

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech
• Housing

We partner with market rate and not for profit land developers and service providers to make housing happen. Building at lower cost, higher quality, and in less time, we create real estate equity.

• housing
• real estate

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Housing