at the University of Texas at San Antonio
Current Research
HOUSED Lab is always developing new research, here we list the current projects and new ideas we are working on
Predicting Demolition orders
2023 | Research Methods | Housing
Together with Dr. Zhai, we use the power of AI methods to combine demolition records with Street View Images to predict demolition records.
We hope this will help to prevent future demolitions by targeting help to those households predicted to have a demo order in the future, as well as assess potential housing quality bias during the code-enforcement process.
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Big Data Gentrification Index
2023 | Research Method | Housing
We created a gentrification index from household-level residential mobility records from DataAxle.
This method is an improvement to traditional gentrification metrics that only use proxies of gentrification, by actually tracking residents that are replaced by others with higher-income paying higher prices for the same dwelling.
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Heat islands identification & prioritization
2023 | Applied Research | Environmental | San Antonio | CoSA
As commissioned by City of San Antonio, HOUSED lab is involved with other UTSA researchers from the SPUR and CURPR centers to provide the Office of Sustainability a ranking of the hottest areas of the city for future heat management and mitigation strategies.
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Neighborhood Change Dashboard
2023 | Applied Research | Housing | US | NALCAB
Sponsored by the National Association of Latino Community Assets Builders (NALCAB), HOUSED lab and CURPR are creating a national neighborhood change dashboard.
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Cool pavement evaluation
2023 | Applied Research | Environmental | San Antonio | CoSA
As commissioned by City of San Antonio, HOUSED lab is involved with other UTSA researchers from the Geography department, the SPUR and CURPR centers to provide the Office of Sustainability an evaluation of the cool pavement coatings placed in different areas of San Antonio.
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Westside Housing Physical condition assessment
2023 | Applied Research | Housing | San Antonio | Westside
HOUSED Lab is collaborating with Dr Angela Lombardi in helping the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center and the Westside Historic Neighborhood Association, to create a housing physical condition assessments of the properties predicted to have a demolition order in the future.
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Bexar County Eviction Dashboard
2023 | Applied Research | Housing | Bexar County
HOUSED Lab is collaborating with Texas Housers, to create a dashboard to showcase evictions records in Bexar County between 2018-2022
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