Solve your biggest Housing Planning challenges with Polco
Polco's platform addresses common hurdles faced by housing planning departments, helping you streamline processes, improve engagement, and ensure informed decisions that lead to more successful outcomes.
Understand community needs
Gain deep insights into housing needs by analyzing data and resident feedback, ensuring your plans meet the true demands of the community.
Build public consensus
Foster public support and participation with advanced engagement tools that allow residents to actively contribute to housing initiatives, ensuring buy-in from the start.
Navigate complex decisions
Use interactive simulations to visualize the impact of different policy options, enabling clearer, more confident decisions that account for trade-offs and community impact.
Manage data from multiple sources
Easily integrate and monitor housing data from various sources in one platform, giving you a complete, up-to-date view of the housing landscape in your area.
Ensure equitable housing growth
Use Polco's analytics to identify trends and gaps in housing access, helping you develop strategies that promote fair, sustainable development across your community.
Unlock powerful tools to shape the future of Housing Planning
From data analytics to interactive simulations, Polco equips you with everything you need to create informed, inclusive, and impactful housing plans. Explore the tools that make housing development smarter and more community-focused.
Housing Simulations
Polco’s Housing Simulations offer an interactive way to engage with complex housing policy decisions. These simulations allow you to visualize the potential impacts of different housing strategies, helping you and your residents understand the trade-offs involved in planning decisions. Through this tool, you can explore scenarios such as zoning changes, affordability measures, and density increases, all within a dynamic and interactive framework.
Benchmark Surveys
Polco’s Benchmark Surveys, including the National Community Survey (NCS), provide valuable insights into resident satisfaction with current housing conditions and the perceived need for new housing developments. These surveys cover key aspects of community life, such as housing affordability, availability, and quality. By analyzing this data, you can identify specific housing needs, understand community priorities, and shape policies that align with your residents' expectations.
Domain Dashboards
Polco’s Domain Dashboards integrate data from multiple sources to provide a real-time view of your community’s housing landscape. From tracking housing affordability and availability to monitoring trends in residential development, Domain Dashboards offer a comprehensive analysis of the factors that influence housing in your community. With Domain Dashboards, you can make informed decisions that support sustainable housing growth and ensure equitable access to housing across your community.
Custom Surveys and Polls
Every community has unique housing challenges, and understanding these requires targeted data collection. Polco’s customizable surveys and polls allow you to gather specific information on housing preferences, affordability issues, and development priorities directly from your residents. With Polco’s tools, you can quickly analyze this data and integrate it into your housing plan, ensuring that your strategies are both responsive and effective.
Engagement Tools
Public support is crucial for the success of any housing plan. Polco’s engagement tools, including online surveys, content posts, and live events, enable you to involve residents in the planning process, ensuring that their voices are heard and their concerns are addressed. By using these tools, you can create a housing plan that not only meets community needs but also enjoys broad public backing.
Strategic Housing Planning with AI
Polly’s Strategic Planning Expert offers tailored advice for developing and executing housing strategies that align with your community’s goals. Whether you’re focused on increasing affordable housing, managing urban growth, or improving housing quality, Polco AI provides data-driven recommendations that help you navigate the complexities of housing planning. By integrating insights from Polco’s Benchmark Surveys, and Community Analytics, Polly ensures that your housing plan is grounded in a deep understanding of your community’s needs and is poised for successful implementation.
Polco is trusted by 1,000+ communities nationwide
Join the growing number of cities, counties, and organizations using Polco to gain meaningful insights, make informed decisions, and build better communities.
More than 10,000 units of housing have been planned with Polco
500+ communities use Polco to make supported housing decisions
FEATURED REPORT
Make Informed Decisions with Confidence
Download your copy of "Make Informed Decisions with Confidence: Solving The Community Engagement Puzzle" today!
Real results: Success stories from our users
Polco isn’t just a tool—it’s a catalyst for transformation in communities nationwide. Our users have harnessed the power of data-driven insights to address challenges, engage residents, and make impactful decisions. Discover how Polco has helped other communities achieve their goals and see what’s possible for yours.