Housing Data Hackathon Planning Meeting

• What we'll do
WHAT: A planning meeting to prepare for a bigger event or process/series of events that will use existing data sources (e.g. Assessing, SEC, City Census, US Census, OCPF) to try to answer questions like: • Who owns properties?
• What are the drivers causing housing values to rise?
• What type of housing do we have available and are the composition and uses changing?
• What types of properties are likely to be bought by a speculative investor? This will be a planning meeting to look at the datasets, think about questions, and then think about a format for a hack-a-thon. We can determine, for example: Should it be something where people are sitting in one room? Or, should we make a cleaned, linked dataset public and challenge people to develop findings, then meet to share out those findings and talk about next steps? WHERE: Argenziano School Cafeteria (290 Washington Street)

WHO: Data/transparency experts and advocates, housing industry experts, and anyone else who is interested!

CO-HOSTS: Aldermen Elect Stephanie Hirsch and Will Mbah, data expert (and writer/artist) Tim Devin, MIT City Planning Graduate Students, Alex Bob and Liz Haney, and James O'Keefe. Note - please bring a laptop if you are able.

• What to bring
Ideally a laptop and charger

• Important to know