HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS SYSTEMS INTELLIGENCE FOR MUNICIPALITIES
Forecast.
Model. Plan.
Karto turns the housing and homelessness data you already have into a costed, defensible plan—showing what your community needs, which investments could change the outcome and what it will take to fund them.
Build the numbers behind the plan—and the case for funding it.
FORECAST
See what is coming.
Forecast homelessness over ten years using local data.
See what happens if current conditions continue—and how different assumptions change the outlook.
MODEL
See what could change it.
Model prevention, shelter, supportive housing, deeply affordable housing, mental-health supports and substance-use supports.
Compare interventions, timelines and investment levels. Model housing need across the continuum and compare your community with similar municipalities.
PLAN
See what it will cost.
Purpose-built for deeply affordable housing.
Model every project—and your full housing pipeline—over thirty years, including capital, debt, operating subsidies, repairs and government funding.
See what your municipality can afford—and plan your ask to other levels of government.
ARCHER · HELPSEEKER’S AI PLANNING ASSISTANT
Cutting-edge AI, safely.
Archer is built into Karto to help your team explore scenarios, compare options and interpret results.
CANADIAN EVIDENCE
Built from real Canadian modelling work.
HelpSeeker has completed housing and homelessness modelling with more than 100 communities.
That work includes:
Municipalities Under Pressure and Municipalities Under Pressure: One Year Later, produced with AMO, OMSSA and NOSDA using data from all 47 Ontario municipal service managers.
Protecting Northern Ontario for 1.3 cents on the dollar, developed under the leadership of NOSDA and CMHA Ontario.
COMPATIBLE
Use the data you have.
Whether it lives in HIFIS, another administrative system, a database or spreadsheets, Karto can work with it.
HelpSeeker helps prepare the data and set up your first model. No system replacement required.
A free Housing Needs Assessment in 2027.
INCLUDED AT NO ADDITIONAL COST
Every subscriber will receive a Housing Needs Assessment incorporating relevant 2026 Census data as it becomes available.
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION
$16,500
per year
Includes onboarding and every Karto capability.
OPTIONAL ADD-ON
Expert Support Tickets
$250 per month
Get HelpSeeker analyst support for custom analysis, briefing notes, council presentations or funding applications.
Discounts are available to Ontario service managers through HelpSeeker’s partnership with OMSSA.
ON THE ROADMAP
What comes next.
These capabilities are planned for Karto. They are not live tools today.
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Project future housing need and compare how different supply options change the housing gap.
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Track changes in affordability, supply and demand using new public datasets.
See what Karto can do with your data.
Request a demo account or book a working session using a question your team is already working on.