Why it matters, infrastructure system
Housing stock
The dwellings people live in; grows through completed construction net of demolitions.
- Depends on
- 1
- Depended on by
- 0
- Metrics
- 0
Neighbourhood: what depends on it (left), what it depends on (right)
- Candidate
- Hypothesized
- Mechanism supported
- Causally supported
- Established relation
Systems that would feel a shortage
Downstream: what depends on it
Nothing stored depends on this entity.
Inputs it cannot do without
Upstream: what it depends on
Housing stock requires input Residential construction2 evidenceEstablished relation
Housing stock depends on Residential construction.
Mechanism
Additions to the housing stock are completed residential construction net of demolitions; there is no other way to add dwellings.
Evidence
- documentU.S. Census Bureau, New Residential Constructioncensus.govPermits, starts and completions.checked 2026-09-07
- documentHUD, U.S. Housing Market Conditionshuduser.govHousing supply, finance and affordability data.checked 2026-09-07
- Status
- established_identity_or_engineering_relation
- Reviewer confidence
- 0.99
- Stated strength
- 1.00
- Lag
- not stated
- Version
- curated_seed_v1
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-07
Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.
Measured, from the catalog
Linked metrics
No catalog metric is linked to this entity yet.
Named on the edges that depend on it
Substitutes
No substitute is named for this entity on any stored edge.
Derived from curated edges
Bottleneck centrality
- Score
- 0.00
- Downstream entities
- 0
- Direct dependents
- 0
Sum over every entity downstream (within six hops) of the strongest path weight to it, where each edge weighs its stated strength divided by one plus its named substitutes. A graph statistic over curated edges, not an observation. Computed 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC.
Curated paths this entity is part of
Chains
Names that resolve to this node
Aliases
- dwellings
- homes
- housing supply
- residential housing
slug housing, updated 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC