Use cases · Housing

Which homes in town are rented year-round, address by address?

A housing plan counts from surveys and averages; the deeds, the cards and the rental permits name the homes one at a time.

Each green house is a home the deeds show rented year-round, found by its address.

A three-decker in Worcester, Massachusetts

A three-decker in Worcester, Massachusetts · photograph by John Phelan, CC BY 3.0

To carry upstairs

One sentence for the manager, three for the housing committee

Manager’s sentenceArtifexAI connects the deeds and the rental permits to the assessor’s card on each home, and the housing plan starts from a list of addresses rather than an estimate, and the town keeps that list with every page behind it.
Board’s three sentencesOur housing plan counts rented and affordable homes from surveys, because no office has the hours to walk the deeds and the cards together. In one coastal Massachusetts town, one office asked one question in 2024, and the Board of Health, the water and sewer department, the town manager and town committees now ask from the same records, with every answer opening to the page it came from. The first step asks us for a copy of the records our IT contractor already knows how to make and one public session, and the first answer comes back in about a week, before any contract.

Massachusetts statewide housing plan, February 2025; 222,000 year-round homes sought by 2035 · MACDC, December 2025; 163,000 low-rent homes lost statewide from 2012 to 2022, counted by Census proxies rather than by address

In one town

Ten years of deeds, and what one town asked of them

One coastal Massachusetts town asked what ten years of its deeds say about how long people stay and whether the town is turning seasonal; ArtifexAI is building that answer now from the registry’s own entries, owner by owner, with each line pointing back to the deed it came from.

Ten yearsof deeds, one owner’s years after another
Year-round or seasonalby what the deed and the card say, home by home
Every linepoints back to the deed it came from

One street over ten years; each bar is one owner’s years, green where the home is year-round and grey where it is seasonal.

See how one town found its rentals address by address.

The rentals case is the nearest case to this desk, since the homes in it were matched from the same deeds and cards a housing plan starts from; a question sent from here goes to a founder, who replies.

The rentals case studyA question for ArtifexAI