Housing
CommunityScale’s Housing Needs Assessment and related planning products have a number of use cases in different jurisdictions and for different required and voluntary planning efforts:
Comprehensive plan housing elements
CommunityScale’s Housing Needs Assessment report is customizable to meet your state’s comprehensive planning (general plan) reporting requirements. It will include pertinent demographic data and spatial analysis. We will collaborate with your team to identify and outline your community’s specific housing needs, including ideal locations, objectives, and strategies.
Massachusetts Housing Production Plans
A tailored version of CommunityScale’s Housing Needs Assessment meets the requirements of Housing Production Plan (HPP) submissions to the EOHLC. The HPP will feature essential data and identify constraints, and our team will assist in pinpointing your community’s preferred housing sites, objectives, and approaches to development.
Arizona Senate Bill 1162 Housing Study
A tailored version of CommunityScale’s Housing Needs Assessment meets the requirements of Arizona’s required municipal Housing Study, including the total need for additional residential housing units for rent and for sale in the municipality.
Connecticut Municipal Affordable Housing Plans
A tailored version of CommunityScale’s Housing Needs Assessment meets the requirements of Connecticut’s CGS 8-30j amended by Public Act 23-137 Section 55 that requires each municipality to adopt an Affordable Housing Plan once every five years.
Colorado Sustainable Affordable Housing Assistance
CommunityScale’s Housing Needs Assessment can satisfy the local needs requirements of Colorado SB 24-174.
New Jersey Mount Laurel Obligations
A tailored version of CommunityScale’s Housing Needs Assessment will work with processes and practices for towns to meet their Mount Laurel affordable housing obligations.
HUD Consolidated Plan
CommunityScale’s Housing Needs Assessments can be tailored to meet a HUD Consortium’s 5-year Consolidated Plan, including Needs Assessment (NA-10 Housing Needs Assessment) and Market Assessment report sections.
Private sector master plan support
CommunityScale’s Housing Needs Assessments provide private developers with comprehensive market and needs insights to establish robust housing programs and support project justifications for entitlement processes. Our model delivers detailed market data and analysis, enabling developers to pinpoint housing demands and tailor their projects to meet community needs. By leveraging our assessments, developers can strengthen their case for entitlement approvals with evidence-based strategies and clear alignment with local housing objectives.
Housing advocacy
CommunityScale’s Housing Needs Assessment equips housing advocates with data-driven insights essential for promoting equitable housing solutions. Advocates can utilize our in-depth analyses to highlight areas of critical need and push for policy changes or development projects that address housing disparities. With our report, advocates can bolster their arguments with solid data, helping to shape compelling narratives for change and rally support for meaningful housing initiatives.
Projects featuring housing planning
- Birmingham, AL: regional housing study
- Blue Hill, ME: Housing Opportunities on the Peninsula (HOOP)
- Greater Omaha-Council Bluffs: regional market value analysis
- Catawba, SC: regional workforce housing study
- Central Massachusetts: regional housing and transportation study
- Minneapolis-St Paul: regional housing nexus study
- Johnson County, IA: housing assessment study
- Pueblo, CO: consolidated plan and fair housing analysis
- Muskogee, OK: comprehensive housing study
- Stowe, VT: housing needs assessment
- Downtown Syracuse, NY: housing needs assessment and market study
- Apex, NC: housing plan update
- Upper Arlington, OH: housing market detailed analysis
- Honolulu, HI: affordable housing plan
- MACOG: regional housing study
- Home for All: Northern Kentucky housing strategies
- Kennebunk, ME: housing needs plan
- Lancaster, MA: housing production plan
- Greenfield, MA: housing plan
- Elkhart-South Bend: regional housing study
- Honolulu, HI: comprehensive housing plan
- Fall River, MA: Davol Street housing market analysis
- Alexandria, VA: housing needs assessment
- Rhode Island: statewide housing needs assessments
- Kentucky Buffalo Trace: three-county housing needs assessments
- El Paso, TX: Downtown + Uptown neighborhoods plan
- Harrison County, KY: housing needs assessment
- Central Indiana: regional housing study
- Northern Kentucky: housing data analysis
- Portland, ME: Bayside master plan
- Affordable housing developable land analysis
- Hammond, IN: downtown master plan (CNU award)
- Local Rapid Recovery Program
- Elkhart, IN: River District implementation plan (CNU award)
- Needham, MA: Northland development master plan
- Corporate ownership of single-family homes
- Rolling out new state-required multifamily zoning
Related reading
- Three phases of local housing action
- Why we focus on housing supply
- Housing shortage and equilibrium calculations
- How CommunityScale forecasts households by income group
- Working with household income, HUD Income Limits, MFI, and AMI
- Income vs house price: How to calculate housing affordability
- How to measure market demand with targeted housing market analysis
- An empirical approach to quantifying and modeling housing preferences
- How filtering helps with affordability
- Which places have the best cost burden performance?
- Economies of Scale, Housing, and Municipal Finance
- Housing Library
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Stowe Housing Needs Assessment
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Housing fingerprint visualizer
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Downtown Syracuse Housing Needs Assessment and Market Study
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CommunityScale in the news: Lone Tree and Hills housing expansion emerges in JoCo housing study
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Apex Housing Plan Update
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Kenton County Selects CommunityScale to Deliver Income-Aligned Housing Implementation Strategies and Action Plan
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CommunityScale in the news: Housing is focus of Stowe forum
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Federal and state push for transportation‑housing coordination
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CommunityScale to lead a Housing Assessment Study for Johnson County, IA
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City of Upper Arlington Housing Market Detailed Analysis
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Economies of Scale, Housing, and Municipal Finance
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Spotlight on Solutions: Celebrating Northern Kentucky’s Collaborative ‘Home for All’ Housing Strategies
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Why we focus on housing supply
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Honolulu launches new affordable housing plan
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Launching a Housing Needs Assessment for Downtown Syracuse