Housing Suitability Map

Finding a promising home is wasted effort if its location violates a non-negotiable need. Road noise, transit, crime, land use, and access exist as separate signals, but a buyer still needs one explainable way to decide where not to look.

A high average cannot cancel a deal-breaker

A location may perform well on four preferences and still fail one non-negotiable requirement. I rejected a single averaged score because it could hide that failure. The model applies hard exclusions first, then uses weighted preferences to compare only the locations that remain.

Screen the area, then inspect the address

I turned the model into a two-stage interaction: screen an area, then inspect an address. Overlays make broad risk patterns visible, selecting a point reveals its factors and source context, and adjustable profiles change the preference weights. A buyer can also draw a region to compare an area before spending time on individual listings.

Carrying the shortlist into the next investigation

The working public map supports the same risk inspection on desktop and mobile. Export carries selected locations and their reasoning into the next stage of the search, so the buyer does not have to reconstruct why an area passed or failed. The map helps decide where to investigate next; it does not estimate property value or guarantee safety.