Case Study: Isle of Wight Council improves housing affordability insight with CACI Paycheck and PowerBI

Isle of Wight Council shows ward-level housing affordability with CACI

The Isle of Wight Council, a unitary authority in the UK, faced a challenge in understanding local housing affordability to meet the needs of its permanent population. They needed to contextualize house prices and rent costs against local incomes while accounting for factors like second homes and a 'hidden homeless' population. To address this, the council partnered with vendor CACI and utilized its Paycheck data product.

CACI's solution involved using granular land registry and earnings data to create an interactive PowerBI dashboard that visualized true affordability at a ward level. This data insight was powerfully received, immediately highlighting critical housing issues for low-income residents and successfully informing developers on the right housing mix for planning approval. The vendor's work led to other council departments seeking similar CACI-powered data visualizations for their own areas.

Isle of Wight Council