Property Registration for Housing

A permissionless system that allows property owners to participate in housing programs.

Loxe Inc. Experienced team with developers and designers that deployed a shared housing app in 2021 that served hundreds of formerly homeless people in Los Angeles.

[IMPACT]

Loxe Inc. is proposing a dapp for property owners to register their property/properties for housing programs. These programs may include long-established voucher-based housing programs, time-sensitive temporary housing (to serve displaced people due to natural disasters, refugees due to war etc.), or the common rental market.

Four of Loxe’s team members have developed a shared housing application together before. Many unproven assumptions have been made by our client, a housing service provider; we want to do better this time by building with the actual stakeholders and without an intermediary. Thus, a research phase will prepend any software development.

We are planning to partner with the Landano team ( https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/381957 ) to leverage their research and work on land registration where applicable. We have had extensive contact with Nana Safo and Peter Van Garderen over many months and are confident that a meaningful collaboration that enhances the outcomes of our proposals to the benefit of the community is likely.

Likewise, the Homeless Hub proposal ( https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/367891 ) by Stephen Whitenstall and Vanessa Cardui - who we are working with on other initiatives - may provide additional perspectives on important property data or property owner data to capture.

With this proposal, we are addressing the following goal mentioned in the challenge brief:

• Dapp proposals should cover foundational Registry solutions, namely: Property Registration

Following a list of the challenge’s key metrics and how this proposal might affect them

• Number of proposals: +1
• Proposals CA ratings: Hopefully a 5.0
• Diversity of Dapp's use cases: No funded property proposal for housing purposes as of now
• Proposers commercial approach and negotiation strategy with different Governments: Privatizing housing - especially to make it more efficient - is in the interest of budget-constraint governments
• Participation of Cardano's Local Community Centers: Initiated contact w/ a Cardano-friendly hub in Denver that serves the homeless population
• Participation and/or partnerships with other international organizations: Certainly possible through our advisors (e.g. Ambassador Rhodes)
• Number of countries covered, contracts signed: Unknown at the moment - governments don’t have to sign anything for their citizens to use this solution
• Proposers lead time on field research, Dapp development and implementation: While we want to spend time on additional research, it is likely that our research to this point will be validated and thus the lead time will be fairly short
• Dapps impact on social/financial inclusion: Very positive
• Dapps impact on economic development: Good

Because we have built a successful shared housing app before and our team includes several award-winning Plutus pioneers, the risk is very low.

[FEASIBILITY]

May - June 2022:

• Insight sharing with teams in adjacent space (e.g. Landano, Homeless Hub)
• Additional requirements gathering - focus on property owners
• Start of UX design

July - August 2022:

• Finalize UX
• Visual identity and design of frontend
• Prep development team

September - December 2022:

• Development culminating in mainnet launch

• UX design $4k/mo, 4 months: $16,000
• Frontend/graphic design $4k/mo, 2 months: $8,000
• 2 Fullstack devs $4,000/mo, 4 months: $32,000
• 1 Frontend dev $3,200/mo, 2 months: $6,400
• 1 Plutus dev $4,000/mo, 1 month: $4,000
• Project management $4,000/mo, 8 months: $32,000

Matthias Sieber, Eli Selkin, David Bradley and Tori Breitling designed, developed, and maintained a shared housing application (named AROYO) and accompanying questionnaire app for a large housing service provider (LA Family Housing) in 2020 through 2021.

While hundreds of people that were facing housing insecurities found suitable shared housing with the help of our apps in the first year, we identified many unnecessary bottlenecks in the processes imposed by our partner. The team is excited to build a more impactful and flexible solution that addresses the global housing crisis from different angles. The team is supported in project management, development, and establishing government connections where appropriate by additional members of Loxe Inc. Some of the team members are listed below. We reserve the right to make adjustments in the team configuration at any time.

Matthias Sieber

• Lead Engineer for AROYO - a shared housing project in 2020/2021
• Professional Software Engineer for over 20 years
• Recommendation Engine Specialist
• Plutus and Prism Pioneer
• CEO Loxe Inc.

Eli Selkin

• Sr. Software Engineer for AROYO - a shared housing project in 2020/2021
• Professional Software Engineer for over 10 years
• MS in Computer Science, specializing in Machine Learning
• Plutus and Prism Pioneer
• CTO Loxe Inc.

David Bradley

• Frontend Engineer for AROYO - a shared housing project in 2020/2021
• Professional Software Engineer for 3 years
• Specializes in React development using Tailwind CSS

Tori Breitling

• UX designer for AROYO - a shared housing project in 2021
• Product/UX designer for over 20 years

Victor Corcino

• Co-creator of AIM Community Tools (CA/vCA Tools, Voter Tool)
• Experienced Project Manager
• MSc Specialization in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Plutus and Prism Pioneer
• COO Loxe Inc.

Ganesh N.

• Professional Software Engineer for over 8 years
• Plutus and Prism Pioneer
• Gimbalabs PPBL Team Member
• BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering
• Has lead development of large scale applications

Ambassador Steve Rhodes

• US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Zimbabwe
• Professor of Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peace Building

[AUDITABILITY]

We will measure the progress of this project for community auditability based on our milestones. Internally, we assess our progress formally weekly with retrospectives and sprint planning.

A successful implementation of the project has a positive impact on abating the housing crisis.

More tangible goal: 100 properties listed after 3 months of launch.

This proposal is an entirely new proposal.

SDG Rating

Sustainable cities and communities.