Quantify housing affordability in your area
Understand how and where housing stress is affecting your residents, and how the market is supplying and affecting affordability. Devise local strategies for meeting needs with appropriate housing types.
housing.id is an online evidence base created specifically for your LGA to help you influence and advocate for your community's housing needs, and monitor progress toward strategic planning goals.
Local government has the insight to be most effective at facilitating the delivery of the right housing at the right time in the right place.
Empower councils to influence their local housing story
Understand how and where housing stress is affecting your residents, and how the market is supplying and affecting affordability. Devise local strategies for meeting needs with appropriate housing types.
Much of the housing data available through other sources is typically only provided at the LGA level. housing.id presents a growing number of datasets at a sub-LGA level, enabling Council to accurately target their effort and resources to the relevant community.
Collaboration is core to the way we do business. Your subscription gives you direct, ongoing support from the housing experts behind the tool: from training and briefing sessions to ad-hoc advice over the phone.
A subscription to housing.id is a third of the cost of the average housing study. It is also more cost-effective than undertaking this analysis internally, saving on staff costs and expensive data purchases.
Housing studies from consultants are generally static snapshots in time, quickly out of date – especially in terms of housing affordability. housing.id is updated every 6 months, allowing you to monitor and respond to change.
Council staff don’t often have the time to become statistical experts, especially in the complex housing space. Don't spend weeks swimming in Excel spreadsheets; get the data you need in seconds via an easy to use online platform.
Inconsistent information creates confusion. housing.id is a consistent and comprehensive evidence base accessible for all: Council staff, Councillors, community housing providers, developers and other partners, plus residents and community groups.
housing.id presents a clear story of housing supply, demand and affordability in your community. Information is prepared using best-practice frameworks and definitions from academia and government, such as Housing Need (AHURI) and NSW and Victorian affordable housing income brackets.
See what types of housing different types of households in your community consume and understand how well your current housing stock is supplying residents with the right housing. Deep dive into affordable housing and understand how demand in our most vulnerable groups is changing.
Answer the important questions
Understand how many different sized homes are affordable for locals in different income bands and household types. See how this is changing over time.
Sourced from our partners at PropTrack, housing.id features regularly updated sales and rentals information. Reduce data costs by leveraging our partnership.
Maps are a great way to tell a local story. Get spatial insights for topics such as housing stress and building approvals. No need for complex GIS systems.
We’re committed to helping local governments address housing effectively. housing.id is regularly improved based on new data sources and feedback from users at the frontlines.
Plan, deliver and monitor local housing
housing.id gives you the evidence to understand the local demographic and economic determinants of housing supply and demand, so you can create more informed strategy.
It's easy for strategies to be "set and forget". Monitor the real-world impacts of actions and get timely insights into how your strategies are working in the changing housing environment.
housing.id has been designed from .id’s extensive experience building evidence bases that local governments use to liaise with and advocate to state government and other agencies.
There are strong links between the demographic and economic characteristics of your community and their housing preferences. housing.id highlights mismatches between current supply and the profile of current and future forecast residents.
Understand the gap between housing supply and demand. Make land-use decisions and work with developers to deliver housing where it is most needed in your LGA.
Get council, community housing providers and developers on the same page. Having an online evidence base for housing means council staff, community housing providers, developers and other partners can work together from the same data.
We'll work with you to understand the problems you're trying to solve, demonstrate the tools and make sure housing.id is the right solution for you.
We do all the work to process the data and put your site live. We'll let you know the moment its ready to use.
Once the site is live, you can organise one of our housing experts to deliver training to staff to ensure you get the most out of your new resource. (Training is included in the subscription cost.) We can also deliver briefings for different audiences, from councillors and executives to developers, housing providers and community groups.
housing.id is an ongoing service. We keep you up-to-date as new data and features are added to the site, and we're only ever a phone call or email away to help you get the most out of it.
An overview of the roles council can play to improve housing affordability and support those who are struggling in the housing market.
A look at the different issues that make up Australia's "housing crisis" and the need for local nuance in responses; the roles local government play in addressing these issues; and a demonstration of housing.id.
housing.id has been designed to give the council and other organisations a reliable and consistent evidence base for significantly less than cost of than one-off consulting reports and internal data wrangling. With a higher upfront cost and lower ongoing costs, the pricing structure is designed around the way council often budgets housing project, incentivising ongoing monitoring of a strategy's impact. Contact our team.
Like all .id information tools, housing.id monitors are publicly accessible, ensuring council, housing providers, developers and the wider community are able to work from the same evidence base.
A subscription gives you direct access to the experts behind the tool. In addition to training sessions we can always be contacted for ad-hoc advice via phone or email.
Sales and rental market data are updated every 6 months. Building approvals are updated more frequently. Census data is updated promptly after each Census and modelled out to stay relevant between Censuses.