Clear My Record is a free, non-profit service to help you dismiss or reduce old convictions on your criminal record.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Justice tech

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

Planning4Informality is a website which acts as 'policy tracker', datatool and accountability Platform. It was designed to measure and critically assess eight South African cities' response to national targets set to upgrade 750,000 out of the total 1.2 million informal households to standards outlined in stages 2 and 3 of the Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme (UISP), part 3 of the National Housing Code. These cities are: Buffalo City, City of Cape Town, City of Joburg, City of Tshwane, Mangaung, eThekwini, Ekurhuleni, and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. Open Data Durban partnered with Isandla Institute to create this living tracker that enables journalists, researchers, local government, communities, and many other user groups assess where each South African metro is at in terms of housing provision and upgrading informal settlements, supporting evidence-based decision making for city housing policy.

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

• housing

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

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

Fannie Mae serves the people who house America. We are a leading source of financing for mortgage lenders and our financing makes sustainable homeownership and workforce rental housing a reality for millions of Americans.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

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

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

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Learn about the issues that are important to New Yorkers in your Council District and across the city, from potholes to affordable housing to the immigrant experience and beyond.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling

Trialling the involvement of citizens in decision-making at local government level through innovative models of deliberative democracy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

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

As the gears of federal government have ground to a halt, a new energy has been rocking the foundations of our urban centers. From Atlanta to Seattle and points in between, cities have begun seizing the initiative, transforming themselves into laboratories for progressive innovation. Income inequality, affordable housing, climate change, sustainable development, public health, participatory government—cities are tackling them all, bringing new urgency to some of the most vital questions of the day. Welcome to the age of big city progressivism! Cities Rising is The Nation’s contribution to the conversation.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

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

We co-design and deliver Time Credits programmes in partnership with local authorities, health, social care and housing providers, schools, businesses and voluntary sector organisations.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Pro bono and volunteer

Wenadata is a web-based, mobile-based and offline tool which gathers statistical data, and works with government, private sector companies and other institutions to help them collect opinions and help make better strategic decisions for citizens. The platform works as an integrated opinion platform where everyone contributes to a more informed, knowledgeable,participatory and supportive country by taking part in campaigns, polls and surveys on issues ranging from sport, politics, culture, housing, education and many more. By partiicpating in the campaigns citizens are rewarded through points which they can redeem for offers and they can also participate in paid surveys. It won the Maputo Seedstars in 2018.

• Adjacent Fields
• Challenges
• Diversity & Inclusion

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

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

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

New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

3d printed homes

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

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

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
• Access social benefits
• Emerging Tech Projects

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

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