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Housing Forecast App

Housing Forecast is a housing planning tool for communities in the US: an out-of-the-box dashboard highlighting local housing trends and needs with interactive maps, charts, and guiding text. Housing Forecast is meant for curious residents, researchers, planners, developers, financial professionals, and policymakers alike.

For each place, Housing Forecast considers demographic and employment trends, evaluates existing and planned housing supply, and identifies misalignments between available units and resident needs. Each Housing Forecast concludes with a local housing production target: an estimate of how much housing a place would need to build to accommodate projected growth and reduce supply strains that make housing less affordable. Charts include sources and methodology, and are updated on at least an annual basis as new data is released.