Housing Planning

We help state and local governments evaluate existing investments and create equitable housing strategies. From financing to market analysis, program design, public engagement, and investment mapping, our team of housing experts are ready to support your vision.

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Assess and Plan for Your Housing Needs

Civix specializes in conducting data-driven and stakeholder-informed housing needs assessments and housing plans. Our team combines planning and data analysis with hands-on experience designing, running, and evaluating housing programs. This combination of expertise ensures that our plans are actionable and furthers our client’s housing goals.

Our approach includes:

Data analysis, mapping to highlight key indicators
Stakeholder engagement with key housing organizations
Evaluation of existing housing programs at all levels
Supply and demand analysis
Implementation grounded in HUD programs and other available funding sources
Understand housing needs and demand at all income levels

Fair Housing

Civix is an industry leader in the development of compliant Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing documents. We go beyond minimum federal requirements to incorporate Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) data and outreach principles to create actionable fair housing plans. Whether it’s data analysis, mapping, strategic community/public engagement, or document creation, Civix is ready to assist your community in furthering fair housing.

Consolidated & Action Plans

Our regulatory experts design and run HUD-funded programs across the country. With program compliance and data-driven strategic solutions in mind, we develop Consolidated Plans tailored to your community’s needs and priorities. This includes analyzing and summarizing demographic data, housing market trends, programmatic actions, departmental and subrecipient activities, and community resources.

Housing Needs Assessment, Studies & Analysis

We develop comprehensive housing assessments at the state and local levels. We blend our data analysis, planning, and HUD grant management experience to create implementation-focused housing plans. We synthesize complex data, create robust and equitable community engagement strategies, map market conditions and assets, and develop concrete actions for moving housing forward in your community.

Why Choose Civix?

The Right Team for Any Housing Challenge

We Maximize Housing Investments

The Civix team is made up of skilled practitioners and subject matter experts who specialize in providing clients with the information and tools needed to maximize community and housing investments.

Proven Experience Engaging Communities at All Levels

We understand how to structure small-scale and large-scale public engagement processes to inform fair housing and housing needs analysis. Our data experts translate data and community input into understandable and actionable housing plans.

Meeting Your Communities’ Greatest Needs

Resilience, Disaster Recovery & Mitigation Planning

Helping communities recover from disasters and increase their resilience to natural hazards, climate change, and pandemics

Data Analytics

Local, state, and national data that informs decision making, action plans, and program success

Housing Services

Design and implementation of programs serving communities’ most vulnerable citizens

Insights

From Our Team of Experts

Civix Elevates VP of Technology, Names Director of Cybersecurity

Calvin Simmons to Vice President of Technology and tapped John McGee as Director of Information Security.

Civix Experts Encourage CDBG-DR Grantees to Take Advantage of Early Access to Funding for Administrative Costs

HUD has extended a unique opportunity to grantees of the 2020 CDBG-DR allocation. They can now access funding for administrative costs earlier than usual.

Civix Shares Checklist for Meeting CDBG-DR Certification Deadline on April 8th

CDBG-DR grantees have a short timeframe to demonstrate they are prepared to administer the federal recovery funding.

Helping State & Local Governments Maximize Federal Infrastructure Funds

Billions of dollars will begin flowing into states’ transportation, broadband, utilities and other infrastructure projects now that President Biden has signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law.

With the Appropriation of $28.6B in Disaster Aid, Civix Provides Timeline for Managing Federal Funds

To help speed up recovery and leverage federal funding for greater impact, Civix experts developed an action timeline to guide state and local governments on what to do during three critical 30-day periods and beyond.

Making Resilience a Reality

In the midst of the devastating destruction wrought by Hurricane Ida a few weeks ago, there is some good news that dramatically demonstrates the powerful benefits of smart resilience planning and construction.

Governor Edwards, Pontchartrain Levee District, Officials Break Ground on Levee Project

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, representatives of the Pontchartrain Levee District (PLD), and federal, state, and local officials gathered Monday to celebrate a significant milestone.

Civix Experts Advise States to Get Ahead of Disaster Recovery Allocations

Tornadoes in Tennessee, mudslides in Oregon, wildfires in California, winter storms in Texas, hurricanes across the Gulf South… Dozens of federal disasters have been declared over the past year,

How Government Can Bridge the Innovation Gap

Since long before Dickens so wittily invented the “Circumlocution Office” in his 1850s serial Little Dorrit, government has been perceived as slow, overly complicated, and often nonsensical. Unfortunately, most people dread their necessary interactions with government. We on the inside appreciate

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