LSI builds accessible data tools that translate rigorous research into place-based investment strategies, with tools that lawmakers, state officials, investors, and mission-driven organizations can run in minutes, for any community in the country.
Why LSI Builds Tools
The American Dream does not live in a national average. It lives in a specific county, congressional district, employer, or parcel. Every major LSI research initiative answers a question that lawmakers and mission-driven leaders will ask: How many renters in my district are paying more than half of their income in rent? How many businesses in my state are about to change hands? What does a full-time job actually pay in my county, relative to what it costs to live there? Our data analytics addresses those questions for any zip code, district, or employer, ensuring that every investment or policy solution is driven by the needs of the place it serves.
LSI Tools
Data product
20,000+ local reports, 52 data points each.
A local view of the economy: financial security, housing supply, renter wealth, employee ownership, and job quality. Searchable by state, congressional district, county, or municipality.
Open 535 InsightsData product
A place-based score of renter financial precarity.
A composite index ranking all 33,000+ U.S. zip codes on the financial position of their renter households: cost burden, income insufficiency, rent-to-income growth gap, renter churn, and housing quality. Built to power the National Renter Wealth Coalition and to underwrite the LSI Housing research agenda.
Open the indexData product
Every major LSI publication, as a live data query.
The interactive companion to LSI's flagship research. Every major report ships with a dashboard that lets readers filter by state, district, industry, or demographic, export data, and cite the underlying figures at the geography that matters to them.
Open the dashboardsHow We Build
We ship every tool with a methodology note and fully-documented data sources.
We strive to answer questions at the level where actions are best tailored to real-life needs.
America is rural, suburban, and urban; coastal, mountain, and plains; red, blue, and purple. LSI tools are built to serve every county and congressional district in the country, with the same methodology and the same level of detail, regardless of geography.
LSI tools and their underlying data are open-source and available for organizations working to advance economic mobility, opportunity, and resilience for communities.
