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.