ProxyAddress: Using Location Data to Reconnect Those Facing Homelessness with Support Services

Audio&visual, expanding design practices, Hildrey Studio, No Density, Politics and economics, Technology and fabrication

Built environment, Cultural agitator, Data usage, Database, Empowering society, Homeless, Housing market, Inclusivity, Local Awareness, london, New technologies, Political implications, Report, Social Inclusion, Society, United Kingdom, Urban Policy

With a shortage of public-sector housing, funding, and resource, the architectural profession stands uniquely placed to use its understanding of the built environment to help ensure those who live in it are not marginalised by it. However, housing remains central to the hardships of those most in need with the leading cause of the UK’s growing homelessness problem being the end of an assured shorthold tenancy.