Indiana's Statewide Housing Dashboard
The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) is responsible for coordinating housing policy and programs across Indiana's 92 counties. To better plan for housing growth and change, IHCDA commissioned HR&A and HousingWeaver to build a statewide housing dashboard, giving every community in Indiana the data and resources they need to understand local conditions and take action.
The Challenge
Local housing officials, developers, advocates, and service providers across Indiana lacked a shared, accessible platform for understanding housing conditions at the local level — and the centralized resources to translate that understanding into policy and programmatic solutions.
The Approach
HR&A worked closely with local housing officials, developers, advocates, and service providers to understand what data mattered most to their work, then developed the platform accordingly. The Indiana Housing Dashboard integrates local housing inventory data with state-level market trends across all 92 counties.
Statewide dashboard with snapshot, comparison, and map views for all 92 counties.
The platform offers:
- Snapshot, comparison, and map views to explore housing trends at the state, county, and municipality level
- An automated housing needs assessment drawing on data across housing supply, demand, affordability, and economic trends — instantly generated for any county
- A toolkit to help users set data-informed housing priorities, with a library of land use, subsidy, and tenants' rights policies organized by priority area, plus a step-by-step guide to developing a local housing plan
Results & What's Next
An on-demand needs assessment any county can generate in seconds.
The Indiana Housing Dashboard now serves as the state's primary public resource for housing data, used by local officials, developers, advocates, and elected officials statewide to monitor trends, identify policy and programmatic tools, and build data-informed housing plans. By making housing data accessible and actionable, the dashboard enables practitioners to not only understand existing housing conditions but actively work toward improving them.