Central Statistics Office (CSO) Data Visualisation Seminar

Dublin Castle, 12th September 2019

-Introduction to the

Dublin Housing Observatory (DHO)Data Navigator

Outline

• Background to AIRO, Maynooth University

• Collaboration with CSO

• Introducing the Dublin Housing Observatory (DHO)

• DHO Data Navigator

• Details on Viewer and Datasets

• Demonstration

• On-going developments

What is AIRO?

• AIRO is a research unit and spatial data website focused on improving evidence informed planning in Ireland

• Collects, analyses and provides evidence and tools to support better planning and decision making

• Public Good tools and website

• Funded research (EU)

• Consultancy/Research (Government Bodies)

• Who do we work with?

Government Departments

Regional Authorities, Local Authorities, Local Partnerships etc

Who we work with?

Collaboration with the CSO?

• Long history of working with the CSO Census Team

• MoU related to release of Census 2011 and 2016

• Development of Mapping Viewers to accompany Census publications in 2016

• All-Island Atlas (2012)

• All-Island Deprivation Index (2012)

Collaboration with the CSO?

• Long history of working with the CSO Census Team

• MoU related to release of Census 2011 and 2016

• Development of Mapping Viewers to accompany Census publications in 2016

• All-Island Atlas (2012)

• All-Island Deprivation Index (2012)

• POWCAR

Data Visualisation with Maynooth University

Data Visualisation with Maynooth University

Data Visualisation with Maynooth University

Spatial Planning in Ireland

Spatial Planning in Ireland (National)

Spatial Planning in Ireland (Regional)

Spatial Planning in Ireland (Regional)

Spatial Planning in Ireland (Regional)

Spatial Planning in Ireland (Regional)

Spatial Planning in Ireland (Regional)

Spatial Planning in Ireland (Regional)

Spatial Planning in Ireland (Regional)

Spatial Planning in Ireland (Local)

Spatial Planning in Ireland (Local)

Spatial Planning in Ireland (Local)

Background to the Dublin Housing Observatory (DHO)

• DHO is a new initiative within Dublin City Council - Housing and Community Services Department

• Lead by Dr Daithi Downey

• Mission Statement

• “make Dublin city an affordable and sustainable place to live by ensuring its housing and urban development strategy, policy and practice is underpinned by robust evidence”

Background to the Dublin Housing Observatory (DHO)

Primary Objectives:

1. Enable and support Dublin City Council’s provision of high quality social and affordable homes and sustainable communities;

2. Be a knowledge-exchange hub for policy design, analysis and implementation on housing and urban development;

3. Provide research and analysis to support evidence-informed decision-making in housing and related fields of planning, economic development, inclusion and integration; and,

4. Be a data navigator and objective source of information on the dynamics of Dublin’s housing system (Regional) and market for all stakeholders, the public and elected representatives.

Background to the Dublin Housing Observatory (DHO)

• Governance Arrangements – Advisory Board:

• Chair – Professor Kenneth Gibb

• Professor of Housing Economics at the University of Glasgow

• Director of UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence

• Director of Policy Scotland

• Vice Chair – Dr Declan Redmond, Housing and Planning, UCD

• Mr Cormac Halpin, Head of Census, Central Statistics Office

• Mr Colin Bray, CEO, Ordnance Survey Ireland

• Dr. Bernie O’Donohue, Research Manager, LGMA

• Ms Rosalind Carroll, Director, Residential Tenancies Board

• Dr Niamh Hourigan, HoD, Department of Sociology, UCC

DHO Data Navigator – AIRO & OSI

•DHO Technical Development

•Datasets and Indicators

•Demonstration

•Updates and Next Steps

DHO Data Navigator – AIRO & OSI

• New Strategic Partnership between AIRO & OSI

• AIRO to focus on research, analytics and insights

• OSI lead on backend IT and Mapping Infrastructure

• GeoHive to collaborate with a number of Microhives

• AIRO Microhive

• Dublin Housing Observatory (DHO)

• Environmental Sensitivity Mapping (ESM)

• Regional Spatial & Economic Strategies (RSES) Viewers

• National Planning Microhive

• MyPlan

ESM Mapping Viewer – AIRO & OSI

•Environmental Sensitivity Mapping (ESM)

•Strategic Environmental Assessment mapping outputs in 2 minutes

•Launch at Ireland’s Environment (2nd October)

DHO Data Navigator – Indicators & Datasets

• Public Viewer based on 4 Data Themes• Contextual Layers

• Zoning & Planning

• Rental Market, Sales and Property Valuations

• Census 2016 Key Variables

• Dwelling Completions & Developments

• Contextual Layers• Boundaries (CSO, OSI etc)

• Administrative and Political

• Local Services (Data.Gov.ie, NTA, DES, etc)

• Health, Education, Transport & Emergency Services

• Zoning & Planning (DPHCLG & MyPlan etc)• Development Plans, Local Area Plans

• Areas of Residential Phasing

• Areas Zoned for Residential Use

• Unfinished Housing Survey

DHO Data Navigator – Indicators & Datasets

• Rental Market, Sales and Market Valuations

• RTB Rental Index

• Standardised Average Rent

• Qtr Time-series at LEA level

• RTB Rental Market Profile

• Status of current tenancies in Dublin (June 2018)

• Landlord Type (Individual, Company, AHB)

• Type of Property (Detached, Semi-D…….Bed-Sit)

• Bedroom Number (1, 2, 3 and 4 plus)

• CSO Property Price Index

• Eircode Routing Key

• Mean, Median and Volume of Sales

• Property Price Register

• Address level data (No Eircode!)

• All Sales, New and Second-hand sales

• LPT Valuations (valid Nov 2019)

• Detached, Semi-D…….Apartments

DHO Data Navigator – Indicators & Datasets

• Census 2016 Key Variables

• Housing Tenure

• Housing Type

• Household Composition

• Housing Vacancy

• Year Built

• Housing Conditions

• Central Heating

• Water Supply

• Sewerage

• Key Socio-Economic Variable

• New Dwelling Completions

• CSO New Dwellings Completion

• Most accurate assessment of new dwellings

• ESB, GeoDirectory, BER……..detailed analysis

• Quarterly Update

• 2018 Total & New Dwellings since 2012

DHO Data Navigator – Demonstration

DHO Data Navigator – Next Phase

• Story Maps• ‘Homes and Housing’ Series

• Part 1: Private Housing Sector in Dublin

• Development of more detailed ‘Internal’ Viewer for key Housing administrators within 4 Dublin LAs• Hexagon or Esri Platform

• Internal datasets on mortgages

• Environmental standards of housing

• HAP, RAS, Rent Supplement

• Development of Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)

• GDPR

• Training and Workshops

• http://airomaps.geohive.ie/DHO

DHO Data Navigator – Story Maps

Thanks

Questions?

w: www.airo.iee: justin.gleeson@mu.ie

twitter: airo_mu

AIRO ‘Data for Decisions’ Training & Workshops

• ‘Data for Decisions’ Introduction to GIS

• Freely available Irish Spatial Datasets

• Open Source Software

• Practical sessions with QGIS

• Irish Planning Institute CPD accredited

• Over 350 participants

• Follow on support provided by the AIRO team

• Advanced Workshop

• Tailor made and in-house workshops available