Our planning products
Scaling community innovation
CommunityScale is a pioneering urban planning and spatial data analysis company serving customers across the United States. We are committed to driving innovation in urban development and real estate by providing swift, accurate, and data-driven insights. Leveraging big data and state-of-the-art analytics, we help municipal and local governments, housing developers, and advocates understand and respond to complex housing needs more effectively and efficiently with a transparent and intuitive process.
Ideas
We research at the scale of community
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Climate tech and zoning: you want to do what!? where!?
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Income vs house price: How to calculate housing affordability
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Growth is a choice: How housing demand and policy interact to shape the future
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Thoughts on how Everett became a housing boomtown in the Boston area
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How to measure market demand with targeted housing market analysis
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Which places have the best cost burden performance?
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An empirical approach to quantifying and modeling housing preferences
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Having an impact on Massachusetts Housing Appeals Committee decisions as a witness
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How CommunityScale forecasts households by income group
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Tracking how truly unaffordable housing has become in the US
Our work
We collaborate with communities across the country
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Fall River Housing Market Analysis
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Dedham MBTA Communities Zoning
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Rhode Island Housing Needs Assessments
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Housing needs assessments for three Kentucky Buffalo Trace counties
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Lynn Rezoning
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Housing Needs Assessment for Harrison County, Kentucky
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North Attleboro Mixed Use Zoning (with Stantec)
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Central Indiana Regional Housing Study (with Stantec)
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Malden MBTA Communities zoning
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Everett Recodification