Time for Artificial Intelligence in Housing
With financial support from the Global Mission Fund of HFHI, Habitat Macedonia is making another innovative step forward – integrating artificial intelligence into data-driven services based on the national registry of apartment buildings and apartments. The initiative is aligned with HFHI’s new global strategy, particularly with the strategic priority: Transforming Housing Systems, and the operational focus: Investing in research to increase impact through data and evidence. At the same time, the initiative supports both national and European climate goals.
The new project includes a quantitative and qualitative expansion of the registry of residential buildings in Macedonia. It aims to enrich the registry with new attributes, expand its coverage to additional municipalities, and introduce a dynamic, interactive model that will enable policymakers and local authorities to design effective housing strategies. At the same time, it will support the private sector, property management companies, and citizens in taking steps toward optimal and sustainable investments in order to improve the quality and functionality of the housing stock in the country.
Artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies are an exponentially growing driver of societal development, generating new knowledge and enabling automated and adaptive value creation. Their effectiveness is based on the use of large and diverse datasets as a foundation for learning and for transforming information into intelligent decisions.
The national registry of apartment buildings and apartments is an initiative of Habitat Macedonia launched in 2015 and has been functioning for several years as a digital platform that includes technical, socio-economic, and energy-related data. It currently covers 5,100 buildings with 154,000 apartments across 37 municipalities. The upgraded registry will serve as a replicable and sustainable model for improving the quality of the housing in Macedonia, with a potential to complement the smart digital tools of the One-Stop-Shop concept - an independent project of Habitat Macedonia supported by the European Union’s LIFE programme.