Data Visualization Science Fair about Housing Affordability in Boston

May 13, 2024 - 9:45am

Location

MIT College of Computing. 51 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

Series

Housing, Community, and Economic Development

Mobility

Urban Science

WHAT: More than 120 undergraduate and graduate students (30 teams) showcasing their interactive data visualization projects about housing affordability in Greater Boston shown in a science fair format

WHERE: Lobby of Building 45, MIT College of Computing. 51 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

WHEN: Monday, May 13th, 2024, 9:45am-11am

Light refreshments will be served

Thirty interdisciplinary student teams from across MIT have been working hard to showcase pathways forward for housing affordability in Boston. Their work has been informed by our partner organization, the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission (MAPC), and many of the projects have a direct relationship with state-level policies, such as the Affordable Homes Act and the MBTA Communities Act, that have been proposed to ameliorate the housing crisis.

Projects include interactive dashboards, scrolling narrative stories, transportation games about:

Speculation in the Boston housing market
Housing supply - how to build more, denser, lower-cost homes
Upzoning
Public transportation and housing density
Evictions and housing insecurity
Rental markets

This is a great chance to meet talented students active in visualization, design, and policy. For more information about this year's course, please visit: https://vis-society.github.io