Community Investment

Source

Building Permits · vintage 2024 · refresh cadence: as-published

Direction of better

Higher values are better. Used to rank candidate towns/properties; higher score = stronger fit.

Default weight in Livability composite

20% of the Livability composite by default. Users can override this weight in their intake; the displayed score reflects the user's chosen weighting, never a fixed default.

Where the data lives

Tables: building_permits

Columns: [computed]

Input field: recentPermitCount

JSON-LD example

Every value emitted by ValiFit (in /api/v1, MCP responses, on-page JSON-LD) carries a propertyID set to this metric_id, so AI clients can resolve it back here in one round-trip.

{
  "@type": "PropertyValue",
  "propertyID": "livability.community_investment",
  "name": "Community Investment",
  "value": "example",
  "additionalProperty": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "composite",
      "value": "Livability"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "level",
      "value": "city"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "direction",
      "value": "higher_better"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "source_year",
      "value": "2024"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "fha_safe",
      "value": true
    }
  ],
  "valueReference": {
    "@type": "QuantitativeValue",
    "additionalType": "https://valifit.com/catalog/metric",
    "identifier": "livability.community_investment",
    "sameAs": "Building Permits"
  },
  "mentions": [
    {
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "@id": "https://valifit.com/sources/census-bps-building-permits",
      "identifier": "CENSUS_BPS",
      "name": "Census Building Permits Survey",
      "url": "https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/",
      "sameAs": "https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/",
      "creator": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "U.S. Census Bureau"
      },
      "temporalCoverage": "monthly"
    }
  ]
}