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Current Research

HOUSED Lab is always developing new research, here we list the current projects and new ideas we are working on

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Street View Sensing

2024 | Research Methods | Housing

Together with Dr. Zhai and Ph.D. Student Haoming Qin, we are collecting high resolution Street View Images to better understand and refine our previous models for housing demolition perception and housing quality overall.

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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 - Phase 2

2024 | 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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Past Projects

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