Hacking the housing market: Tech teams use open data to help people find affordable homes - GeekWire

"Phrases like 'housing vouchers' and 'senior accessibility' aren’t commonly heard at a weekend hackfest. But those words were the focus of one of Seattle’s largest open data hackathons ever — a unique event hosted by Zillow and the University of Washington this weekend.  More than 200 developers spent most of the past 72 hours at Zillow’s downtown Seattle headquarters for 'Hack Housing,' an event that encouraged teams to use public government data to build solutions that help people find affordable and accessible places to live — specifically first-time homebuyers, senior citizens, and low-income renters.  The judges awarded the $10,000 first-place prize to SmartMove, an app developed by Tim Lebell, Jake Grajewski, and David Puerto that determines the best place to live based on proximity to a person’s most-visited locations, like a workplace, the grocery store, and other places critical to their daily lives ..."