CommunityScale

Central Indiana Regional Housing Study

Launched while working at Stantec, CommunityScale is partnered with Stantec Urban Places to complete a regional housing study that includes housing market investigation, needs assessment, and gap analysis to provide communities and stakeholders across the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization’s 8-county jurisdiction with current context and insights for better and more collaborative planning and policy development.

The project leverages big data sources and machine learning techniques to identify challenges and opportunities across the metro area’s housing landscape and present findings at the regional and county levels of detail.

The product of this work will be presented as the first critical step for the IMPO in a new role as a regional leader for housing policy discourse, planning, technical assistance, and policy innovation.

Jeff Sauser

Jeff Sauser, co-founding Principal at CommunityScale, has over 10 years experience leading urban design and planning projects for public and private sector clients in complex urban contexts across the country. His work emphasizes the role of housing policy and production in driving economic development progress and creating opportunities for socioeconomic mobility across the community. He is particularly interested in applying emerging big data resources and AI tools to help clients and communities plan smarter and more proactively.