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LOC? Market Analysis for Downtown Redevelopment <br />CONSULTING City of Centerville Economic Development Authority <br />April 3, 2023 <br />6.2 Word Cloud from Community Input on Current Housing Needs <br />What types of housing does Centerville need? <br />Senior living <br />Centerville <br />city <br />housing options <br />options One townhomes <br />renta[Apartments homeSafFordable <br />Low incomesingle famity homes Single <br />single level <br />senior <br />single family housingNonelarger <br />Higher end communitytown Condos <br />Number of mentions <br />fewer anomemeā–  more <br />3 23 <br />Source: Informal Community Survey, 3-20-2023; City of Centerville; LOCI Consulting LLC <br />0 31.5% work from home almost all of the <br />time. <br />Housing Questions <br />Figure 6.1 (on the previous page) shows how <br />respondents ranked current housing options in <br />the City of Centerville. Figure 6.2 above shows a <br />word cloud of responses when asked what types <br />of housing Centerville needs. <br />Word clouds are visualizations created from open- <br />ended responses. It takes frequently used words <br />from the responses and presents them with the <br />more frequent words in larger fonts. The word <br />Page 181 <br />cloud provides a way to summarize themes from <br />the responses. <br />Admittedly, these visualizations are not perfect. <br />Small variations in the word can often show up <br />multiple times. And words can show up where the <br />writer is expressing the alternative opinion. A <br />quick review of the word "apartments" in some of <br />the open-ended responses found that in a few <br />cases the actual response was "no apartments." <br />In general, respondents are satisfied with <br />housing options. The majority (61.2%) ranked <br />the options either four or five stars. <br />