Housing / cities / sustainability
Urban Intelligence
Housing is not only a listing problem. It is a system of access, price, mobility, infrastructure and place.
From House Hunt to research programme
The listing is only one layer.
The original house-hunting idea becomes more useful when expanded into urban intelligence: understanding where housing exists, what it really costs to access, how people move to work and services, and how development patterns affect long-term resilience.
Housing
Supply, quality, rent, availability and the friction of actually finding a viable home.
Mobility
Commute time and transport access can matter as much as the monthly rent.
Resilience
Energy, water, heat, density and green space shape whether development remains livable.
Place data
Geospatial context connects housing with schools, work, infrastructure and public services.
Decision surface
A home sits inside a network.
Home
rent + quality
Mobility corridor
Transit
Work
Services + environment
Total access cost
Kenya as first case environment
Research from a real city, not an abstract map.
Nairobi gives the programme a concrete place to study rental access, informal and formal housing, transport trade-offs, data gaps and rapidly changing urban development.
Research questions
What does accessible housing actually mean?
Can housing recommendations account for transport cost and commute time instead of rent alone?
How should a city intelligence system work when listing, address and property data are incomplete or inconsistent?
What indicators can help identify areas where housing supply and infrastructure are becoming misaligned?
How can sustainability and resilience information become useful to ordinary housing decisions rather than remain specialist reports?