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County of Simcoe launches new Affordable Housing Dashboard

December 5, 2024   ·   0 Comments

By Brian Lockhart

The County of Simcoe has launched its new Affordable Housing Dashboard.

This tool is designed to help users explore and understand housing trends within their community through a comprehensive selection of population insights and affordable housing metrics available at the local municipal level.

“The launch of the Affordable Housing Dashboard marks yet another significant step forward in our commitment to informed decision-making in regard to affordable housing,” said County Warden Basil Clarke. “By providing accessible and comprehensive data, we empower our community to better understand and address the housing challenges we continue to face. This dashboard will prove extremely useful in helping everyone in the County to gain a better understanding of our housing market.”

The Affordable Housing Dashboard aims to support elected officials, civil servants, media, local service providers, academics, and residents in answering critical questions about the local housing continuum.

By providing access to key data indicators, the dashboard helps users assess the health of the housing market through the following questions:

1 – Is the supply of housing keeping up with demand?

2 – How affordable is housing?

3 – How much choice is there in the housing market?

4 – What is the level of Core Housing Need?

This dashboard is a County-specific replication of a previous design by the Community Data Program.

The dashboard is now live and can accessed at: http://open.simcoe.ca.

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