Develop technologies to help people access affordable housing.
This project seeks to develop innovative technologies that can help people access affordable housing. The goal is to create solutions that can make the process of finding and securing affordable housing easier and more accessible. This could include developing applications, websites, or other digital tools that can help people search for and apply for
Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median, as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index. Most of the literature on affordable housing refers to mortgages and a number of forms that exist along a continuum – from emergency homeless shelters, to transitional housing, to non-market rental, to formal and informal rental, indigenous housing, and ending with affordable home ownership. Demand for affordable housing is generally associated with a decrease in housing affordability, such as rent increases, in addition to increased homelessness.