Care & Quantitative Intimacy: Our Neighborhood-Centric Datasets
What a time it is to grow and sustain an ethics of care in this ‘struggle for existence’ enshrining social climate. This struggle for existence operates on the assumption that there are different groups of people in competition with each other, which spurs the logic of erecting and enforcing boundaries that effectively separate human beings into deserving in-groups and undeserving out-groups. On the other hand, an ethics of care takes an integrative view of humanity that links the satisfaction of basic human needs with an honoring of human dignity, a starting point for prosperity, and a cornerstone for establishing the conditions for peace.
Housing that is safe, decent, and affordable is one of these basic needs. And like our society, the current state of the relationship between households and the housing market is one that is complicated by the competing ethics of care and profit-maximization. As a natural optimist, I move with the belief that it‘s meaningful to cultivate more reason, more facts, and more good faith dialogue on establishing and maintaining fairness and justice in the household—housing market relationship. I believe that data in the hands of people who are willing to see and hear can make a significant difference that touches each of us positively.
Kiaspo’s Neighborhood-Centric Datasets service is geared towards providing housing professionals with quantitative intimacy. This means mobilizing facts and figures to gain a textured understanding of the social contexts that are impacting individuals and households. We use two primary frameworks to represent two distinct perspectives on neighborhoods. Our Housing Stability Framework centers neighborhood residents and their income capacity relative to market rate housing costs. Although a robust number of datapoints are provided and analyzed, the essence of datasets within this framework is revealing affordability dynamics, whether renting or home-buying, from the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) perspective and the neighborhood-level perspective. Our Core Socioeconomic Realities Framework centers the basic socioeconomic realities of the neighborhood. We offer basic, intermediate, and premium tiers for this framework, which allows patrons the option to expand their neighborhood outlook to attributes such as the social capital characteristics of households, built environment elements, and rudimentary aspects of housing affordability.
These datasets are offered in the ‘big plate’ spirit. We want our patrons to be full and satisfied with robust, reliable, and time-relevant data. To find out more about these offerings, sign up to keep in touch with us here.
