Project Goal
Utah has a housing affordability crisis. Policy-makers and the state and local level are working to ensure that all Utahns have access to safe, affordable, and stable housing. The goal of this effort was to visually display and track key housing metrics to help inform future policy making and the impact of those policies.Business Problem Solved
The housing policy space includes a broad range of stakeholders from the private, public, non-profit and general public sectors. Effective policy-making has been difficult when there is disagreement about the facts. This new tool helps move the debate forward to focus on solutions.
Technology Implemented
We used ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online for data management and visualization and built the Housing Metrics Dashboard using ArcGIS Experience Builder with multiple web maps.
Development Team Biography
Laura Hanson, GOPB: Laura was appointed in 2024 to serve as Governor Cox’s Senior Advisor for Long-Range Planning. She thinks about all the things needed to ensure Utah remains a great place to live (water, transportation, housing, energy, etc.).
Dejan Eskic, GPI: Dejan Eskic serves as the senior research fellow and scholar at the University of Utah's Kem C. Gardner He focuses on providing the best information to key decision makers, whether they’d be local or state officials, or executives of national development firms.
Jacob Adams, UGRC: Jacob is a data engineer who likes to figure out how to spatialize data and then automate the data update process.
Company Overview
GOPB: The Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget’s mission is to drive the best investment and use of Utah's resources by providing fiscal, economic, policy, and planning expertise.
GPI: The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, part of the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, prepares economic, demographic, and public policy research that helps Utah prosper. The Gardner Institute is Utah’s preeminent public policy institute and a vital gathering place for policy leadership and thoughtful discourse.
UGRC: The Utah Geospatial Resource Center is the state's map technology coordination office. We facilitate and encourage the effective use of geospatial information and technology through data aggregation, consultation, and custom development.