Teaching-City---Hackathon-Kickoff---Website.pdf

The document provides information about a hackathon event in Oshawa focused on rental housing issues. It emphasizes the importance of safe and affordable housing, outlines the various challenges faced in the local rental housing market, and discusses the government's roles in addressing housing issues. The local context of rental housing in Oshawa is highlighted, including statistics on renters, major property issues, and challenges faced by both renters and landlords. The document also details the city's efforts to address habitability through property standards enforcement, rental housing licensing, registration of two-unit houses, and licensing of lodging houses. It presents challenges and projects for the hackathon participants to work on, such as improving access to rental housing, identifying rental properties, promoting responsibility among renters and landlords, and educating them on their rights. The document also mentions opportunities for developing solutions, sources of data available for the hackathon, event logistics, submission guidelines, judging criteria, judging process, list of judges, prizes, what will be provided during the event, and what participants need to bring.