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Enter Redfin<\/h2>\n
Redfin answered the President\u2019s call to innovate through the White House\u2019s Office of Science and Technology Policy\u2019s open data event called, The Opportunity Project. Redfin<\/a> was among 12 companies working on the project.<\/p>\n Redfin combined White House opportunity data with innovation and a real concern for locating housing affordability to produce their tool, Opportunity Score. This tool includes information about the price of housing, but it also combines the White House opportunity data including data on home sales and rentals, mobility data from Walk Score<\/a> [rates the distance it takes to walk from point A to point B] and Transit Score<\/a> [rates how well a location is serviced by public transportation].<\/p>\n Using this information, Opportunity Score can pinpoint housing within easy reach of job centers of opportunities for employment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Redfin could have easily used this information to benefit only themselves, but instead, they decided they could do more with their ideas. Redfin Chief Economist, Nela Richardson, stated, \u201c[They] applaud the [Obama] administration or bringing the technology community to the table to talk about economic mobility in America. [Redfin] is hopeful that Opportunity Score and other tools from this initiative can help people make informed decisions about where they live and give more families the opportunity to thrive.\u201d If this isn\u2019t a tool born out of concern for others, I don\u2019t know what is. As our readers well know, economic mobility isn\u2019t determined by skill, education, or luck. Your actual ZIP code can play a role too and this is where Redfin\u2019s Opportunity Score wants to help.<\/p>\n It can identify neighborhood within a 30-minute walk, bike ride, or transit trip to employment centers where jobs pay $40,000 per year or more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As Richardson stated, \u201caffordability is a growing challenge, one [they] see firsthand as a real estate brokerage helping people buy and sell homes, but the price of a home or the cost of rent is only part of the equation. People want a home where they can have a reasonable commute to work, participate in the community, and access opportunities that can provide a better future for their children.\u201d Opportunity Score is the first step in using technology to determine where you should start looking for a home that suits these needs.<\/p>\n Kudos to Redfin for knocking the open data market project out of the park and selflessly creating a really useful, relevant tool. It will give Realtors\u00ae and homebuyers the ability to find affordable, practical housing in places that suit the needs and preferences of the homebuyer without endless amounts of time searching, showing, and narrowing down a seemingly endless list of potential homes.<\/p>\n Redfin has been innovating technology for a quite a while, but their latest innovation really blew us away and we think you’ll agree it’s applause worthy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335817,"featured_media":7198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[902,429,324],"class_list":["post-7197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","tag-economic-mobility","tag-housing-affordability","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/redfin.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7209,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions\/7209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Opportunity-Score-Screenshot-Seattle-SM\"](\"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Opportunity-Score-Screenshot-Seattle-SM.jpg\")
<\/p>\nWhy they wanted to create Opportunity Score<\/h2>\n
Access to the community<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n#RedfinOpportunityScore<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"