## Open Housing Monitoring
Giles Dring, ODI Leeds Associate
[Innovation in Monitoring Housing Delivery](https://futurecities.catapult.org.uk/2018/07/02/innovation-in-monitoring-housing-delivery/)
CPC Blog Post 2nd July 2018
> ...we have been somewhat dismayed by the paucity of publicly available data on land holdings and build out rates.
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* Blog post by Nissa Shahid, about 12 months ago
* Quote from Oliver Letwin's report
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Can we do better?
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# Prototype Hypothesis
_Interpret → Link → Report_
We can use Open Data to count housing completions
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* We worked with Stef / Euan / Tom to shape a prototype
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...and maybe some other interesting stuff as well
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Lots of interest in e.g. affordable housing
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* Call for data sources
* Identified Planning Consents and Council Tax Registrations - Leeds Open Data (Data Mill North)
The ideal →
* Easy to infer properties planned
* Perfect matching to schemes
* Council Tax registrations tally
# The hard stuff
* **Cross-referencing**
_Difficult to match events reliably_
* **Geo-location**
_Datasets often have minimal geospatial content_
* **Extracting meaning**
_e.g. counts from planning applications_
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# The future? Some potentials...
* Deliver into a local authority
* Add further event sources
* Educate the community on licensing of address/geo data
* Define standards for 'event publication'
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Standards could include:
* Linking planning proposals to others
* Adding property breakdown to planning publication
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## Want to know more?
[Open data foundations - building a housing tool](https://odileeds.org/blog/2019-06-19-open-data-foundations-building-a-housing-tool)
