About Us!

Our Mission:

At Greenhood, we help people find their ideal neighborhood, empowering users with accessible data, a robust search engine, and a focus on community and shareable information. We aim to be the the place for you to go from the beginning to the end of your neighborhood searching process.

Sheltersafe Team
Our Story
Greenhood was born from the realization that the process of how people look for homes is changing. Visiting her cousin in San Francisco, Cleo discovered that her cousin spent a lot of time on her own researching whether properties were climate resilient before deciding where to rent.
In the news, we've all seen the disasters that occur because of flooding, fire, wind, and heat. Extreme weather wreaks havoc and with climate change, the rate of disasters and damages to homes caused by flooding, fire, wind, and heat will continue to rise.
Because of this, it is not just enough to take measures to reverse climate change, we also need to work to become climate resistant. This means that the homes we choose to live in should be built to withstand climate change.
When the six of us met at Dartmouth, we decided to build a climate conscious tool to improve the experience of finding a place to live in our ever changing world.
Greenhood is helping to usher in this new climate conscious world by providing accessible data about a neighborhood's climate resilience alongside standard data about neighborhoods.
Meet Our Team
United by our passion to help you find a better home, we are a team of dedicated coders and visionaries.
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Data Sources
Extreme Heat

Sources: First Street Foundation. (2022, February 24). Heat Model Methodology. First Street Foundation. https://firststreet.org/research-library/heat-model-methodology

Flooding

Sources: First Street Foundation. (2024, February 24). Flood Model Methodology. First Street Foundation. https://firststreet.org/research-library/flood-model-methodology

Wildfire

Sources: First Street Foundation. (2022, February 24). Wildfire Model Methodology. First Street Foundation. https://firststreet.org/research-library/wildfire-model-methodology

Wind

Sources: First Street Foundation. (2022, February 24). Wind Model Methodology. First Street Foundation. https://firststreet.org/research-library/wind-model-methodology

Zipcode Data

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau. "Monthly Electricity Costs." American Community Survey, ACS 5-Year Estimates Detailed Tables, Table B25132, 2022, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2022.B25132?t=Health&g=860XX00US10455. Accessed on February 24, 2024.; U.S. Census Bureau. "Monthly Gas Costs." American Community Survey, ACS 5-Year Estimates Detailed Tables, Table B25133, 2022, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2022.B25133?t=Health&g=860XX00US10455. Accessed on February 24, 2024.; U.S. Census Bureau. "Annual Water and Sewer Costs." American Community Survey, ACS 5-Year Estimates Detailed Tables, Table B25134, 2022, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2022.B25134?t=Health&g=860XX00US10455. Accessed on February 24, 2024.; U.S. Census Bureau. "Educational Attainment." American Community Survey, ACS 5-Year Estimates Subject Tables, Table S1501, 2022, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2022.S1501?t=Education&g=860XX00US10455. Accessed on February 24, 2024.; U.S. Census Bureau. "Total Population in Occupied Housing Units by Tenure." American Community Survey, ACS 5-Year Estimates Detailed Tables, Table B25008, 2022, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2022.B25008?q=owner and renter&t=Owner/Renter (Tenure)&g=860XX00US10455. Accessed on February 24, 2024.; U.S. Census Bureau. "School Enrollment by Level of School for the Population 3 Years and Over." American Community Survey, ACS 5-Year Estimates Detailed Tables, Table B14001, 2022, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2022.B14001?q=schools&t=Owner/Renter (Tenure)&g=860XX00US10455. Accessed on February 24, 2024.; U.S. Census Bureau. "Median Earnings in the Past 12 Months (in 2022 Inflation-Adjusted Dollars) by Sex by Educational Attainment for the Population 25 Years and Over." American Community Survey, ACS 5-Year Estimates Detailed Tables, Table B20004, 2022, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2022.B20004?q=median earnings &t=Education:Educational Attainment&g=860XX00US10455. Accessed on February 24, 2024.; Li, Mao, Melendez, Robert, Khan, Anam, Gomez-Lopez, Iris, Clarke, Philippa, and Chenoweth, Megan. National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA): Parks by ZIP Code Tabulation Area, United States, 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119803V1.