Civic Meetup #543: The Future of Housing is Intelligence, Not Listings, Not Showings
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Topic: The Future of Housing is Intelligence, Not Listings, Not Showings
The housing system is not broken because there are not enough listings. It is broken because there is no intelligence layer between the people who need housing and the people who have it.
Every platform we have built in the last twenty years starts the same way — here is a list, go find something. That model fails international students arriving with hard start dates. It fails military families with 30-day windows and no time to tour. It fails newcomers and protected arrivals navigating a market they have never seen. It fails the nonprofits and VA offices trying to coordinate dozens of placements at a time with spreadsheets and phone calls.
The future of housing does not start with a listing. It starts with a signal — a visa approval, an enrollment deposit, an offer letter, a set of PCS orders. Commitment data that tells us who is coming, when, and what they need before they ever begin to search.
Speaker: Bisola-Mariam
Bisola-Mariam or BM is the co-founder & CEO of Gida. Her work is at the intersection of housing, technology and social justice.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic meetups bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Interested in speaking at a future event, or know someone who'd be a great speaker? We'd love to hear from you:
https://link.civictech.ca/speaker-suggestions
Have a space that could host up to 80 civic-minded folks for an evening? Consider recommending your venue:
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Platform Sponsors
Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!
Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
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Civic Meetup #543: The Future of Housing is Intelligence, Not Listings, Not Showings
Topic: The Future of Housing is Intelligence, Not Listings, Not Showings
The housing system is not broken because there are not enough listings. It is broken because there is no intelligence layer between the people who need housing and the people who have it.
Every platform we have built in the last twenty years starts the same way — here is a list, go find something. That model fails international students arriving with hard start dates. It fails military families with 30-day windows and no time to tour. It fails newcomers and protected arrivals navigating a market they have never seen. It fails the nonprofits and VA offices trying to coordinate dozens of placements at a time with spreadsheets and phone calls.
The future of housing does not start with a listing. It starts with a signal — a visa approval, an enrollment deposit, an offer letter, a set of PCS orders. Commitment data that tells us who is coming, when, and what they need before they ever begin to search.
Speaker: Bisola-Mariam
Bisola-Mariam or BM is the co-founder & CEO of Gida. Her work is at the intersection of housing, technology and social justice.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic meetups bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Interested in speaking at a future event, or know someone who'd be a great speaker? We'd love to hear from you:
https://link.civictech.ca/speaker-suggestions
Have a space that could host up to 80 civic-minded folks for an evening? Consider recommending your venue:
https://link.civictech.ca/venue-suggestions
Come and be part of it!
For more info:
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