Partnership proposal · for partners, funders & advocates

Put California's affordable-housing data to work

A living directory of properties, availability, and the organizations behind them — refreshed and audited daily, not scraped once and left to rot.

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housing listings tracked
availability, AMI, vouchers, accessibility
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organizations profiled
developers, builders, funders
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party relationships mapped
who built, owns, and manages each property
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automated updates + audits
funding, jobs, renames, news, photos
The problem

Affordable-housing data is fragmented and goes stale fast

It lives in scattered TCAC spreadsheets, agency PDFs, and one-off developer sites — out of date the moment it's published. That friction slows everything downstream: placing people in homes, researching gaps, and making the case to funders.

Why we're different

Most “housing databases” are one-time scrapes. Ours is a living system.

The reason data goes stale is simple: most directories are scraped once and never truly maintained. We built the opposite.

Typical housing databases
  • Built from one-time website scrapes and manual spreadsheets
  • Months — or years — out of date
  • A flat list of listings, nothing connected
  • Riddled with duplicates, dead links, and missed renames
  • Breaks silently when a source site changes, and quietly rots
Affordable Housing Partners
  • Continuous automated pipelines from authoritative sources
  • Refreshed and audited every single day
  • Listings + organizations + how they all connect
  • Deduplicated, resyndication-reconciled, contact-verified
  • Monitored and self-healing, with daily integrity checks
What we built

One living source for the whole field

Affordable Housing Partners brings California's properties, their availability, the organizations behind them, and the relationships between them into a single structured, searchable directory — and keeps it current automatically.

Always current

The automation engine

This isn't a static report that rots. Daily automated pipelines keep the data fresh with near-zero manual upkeep — so what you see today reflects the field today.

  • Funding deadlines from Grants.gov + the CA Grants Portal
  • Job postings crawled from developers' own career pages
  • Property renames and rehab resyndications reconciled
  • Industry news ingested continuously
  • Building photos and contact details enriched
Runs every day
Funding sync
new grant + tax-credit deadlines
Careers crawl
fresh jobs across member developers
Rename reconcile
properties tracked through rebrands
News + photos
kept current automatically
What it does

Core functions

Listings search

Filter by AMI tier, bedrooms, vouchers, ADA accessibility, and geography — down to the unit.

Organization profiles

Track records, unit counts, and contact paths for every developer, builder, and funder.

Funding tracker

Open grant and tax-credit deadlines, auto-synced from Grants.gov and the CA Grants Portal.

Property histories

The full developer → owner → manager ledger for each property, including rehab resyndications.

Careers board

Affordable-housing jobs, auto-crawled from member developers' own career pages.

Industry news

A continuously-ingested feed of California affordable-housing news and milestones.

See it in action

Use-case scenarios

Pick a role to see what changes when the data is live, connected, and current.

Supportive-housing case manager

Without a live database

Spends hours cold-calling properties and combing stale lists to find one open, voucher-accepting, accessible unit for a client who needs housing now.

With Affordable Housing Partners

Filters the live directory by location, voucher acceptance, AMI, and accessibility — and gets a current shortlist in seconds.

Less time searching, faster placements.
How we'd work together

Integration options

Use it as-is, or wire the data into your world. Pick the depth that fits your network.

Data feed / API

Pipe structured, current listing and organization data straight into your existing tools and dashboards.

Co-branded portal

A directory experience carrying your brand, scoped to your network or region.

Embeddable search

Drop our search into your own site so members and clients find housing without leaving you.

Built to be trusted

Security, audits & privacy

Current data is only useful if it's also dependable and responsibly handled. Here's how we keep it that way.

Daily audits & data integrity

Every dataset is rebuilt and re-verified by automated jobs each day, with integrity checks that stop bad or empty source data from overwriting good records. Every run is logged.

Security

Served over HTTPS/TLS with hardened security headers, on a managed Postgres database with row-level security. Admin actions sit behind authenticated, role-based access.

PII & privacy

The public directory is built from public records and public business contacts — no tenant or applicant data. Where individuals use personal tools, that data is private to each user, protected by row-level security, never shown publicly, and never sold.

What's next

A roadmap we'd refine together

These are the directions we're building toward — and the priorities a partner's needs would help shape.

1
Supportive-housing matching engine — match clients to available, eligible units automatically
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Real-time availability signals from property managers and waitlists
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Eligibility and voucher matching layered onto search
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Expansion beyond California to additional states
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AI-assisted natural-language search across the full dataset
The ask

Let's explore a partnership

We're looking for partners to pilot this with their network, integrate the data, and help fund its expansion — with a supportive-housing matching engine as a clear, fundable first milestone.

Start a conversation

or email outreach@affordablehousingpartner.com