The Housing & Urban Development Dashboard in Google Sheets tracks 16 KPI cards across 6 tabs, driven by 16 native slicers and 16 pivot-fed charts. The sample programme it ships with covers 500 projects, $5,419,472,000 of investment and 31,242 housing units at an average of $173,468 per unit. Setup takes under 10 minutes — paste your own project register over the Data sheet and every pivot, chart and Top 5 panel recalculates.Housing & Urban Development Dashboard in Google Sheets Template
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🔑 Key Features of the Housing & Urban Development Dashboard
🏗️ Built on native pivot tables and slicers. Every chart reads a pivot table parked to the right of its page rather than a chain of SUMPRODUCT helper formulas, so the file stays fast as your project register grows past a few hundred rows.
🎛️ Four slicers per analysis page. Overview filters by Month, District, Project Type and Status. Districts filters by District, Program, Month and Funding Source. Projects filters by Program, Project Type, Project Manager and Income Band. Funding filters by Funding Source, Income Band, Permit Type and Month.
📐 The sample data is a full capital programme. 500 projects spread across 8 districts, 9 project types, 8 housing programs, 6 funding sources, 5 income bands, 6 permit types and 10 project managers — enough dimensional spread that every chart is meaningful before you touch it.
📈 Deliberately unfiltered KPI cards. The four KPI cards and the At a Glance list on each page use SUMIFS and COUNTIFS against the Data sheet, so they always report programme-wide totals. The charts, pivots and Top 5 panels are slicer-aware. You see the whole and the slice side by side.
🔎 A record-level Search tab that returns all 16 stored fields for any Project ID, so a question about one scheme never means scrolling the raw register.
📦 Auto-expanding to 1,000 rows. Pivots, slicers and formulas already span row 1001. Need more? Open the Apps Script file, raise DATA_ROWS, re-run main().
📦 What’s Inside the Housing & Urban Development Dashboard
Page 1: Overview — City-Wide Housing Programme
The programme-level page. KPI cards show Total Investment ($5,419,472,000), Total Projects (500), Housing Units (31,242) and Avg Cost / Unit ($173,468). Charts are Monthly Investment Trend, Housing Units by Project Type, Investment by Funding Source and District Investment vs Projects. The right rail carries a Programme Snapshot (completion rate 43.0%, 62.5 avg units per project, 23.6 month avg build), Top 5 Districts by Investment, a Project Status Mix bar set and an At a Glance list.
Page 2: Districts — Neighbourhood Delivery
Where the money landed. KPI cards show Completed Projects (215), Avg Build in Months (23.6), Central Business investment ($652,032,000) and Avg Units per Project (62.5). Charts are Investment vs Housing Units, Investment by District & Program, Monthly Units Delivered and Projects by Status. The rail adds a District Snapshot, Top 5 Project Types by Investment and a District Investment Share bar set led by Eastside at 17.8%.
Page 3: Projects — Programme, Project Type and Manager Performance
Delivery accountability. KPI cards show LIHTC Investment ($1,065,862,000), Urban Infill Projects (61), Green Retrofit Investment ($475,800,000) and Largest Project ($43,710,000). Charts are Investment by Program, Project Type Investment vs Projects, Investment by Project Manager and Housing Units by Income Band. The rail ranks the Top 5 Managers by Investment and shows Program Investment Share, with LIHTC at 19.7%.
Page 4: Funding — Sources, Affordability Bands and Permit Mix
The capital-stack view. KPI cards show Federal Grant Investment ($1,184,284,000), Private Capital Projects (102), Unique Developers (191) and On-Hold Rate (7.4%). Charts are Projects by Funding Source, Income Band Investment vs Units, Investment by Permit Type and Monthly Project Volume. The rail reports investment per developer ($28,374,199), 2.6 projects per developer and a 55.7% public funding share.
Page 5: Search — Look Up Any Project by ID
Pick a Project ID such as HUD-0001 and the Project Details panel returns Approval Date, District, Project Type, Program, Developer, Funding Source, Investment, Housing Units, Duration in months, Project Manager, Permit Type, Status, Income Band, Month and Quarter.
Page 6: Instructions — How This Dashboard Works
A 10-point user guide covering the pivot-and-slicer architecture, how to clear a slicer, why the KPI cards stay unfiltered, how to swap in your own rows, how to push past 1,000 rows and how to recolour the theme from the palette block in the script.
Data sheet
One flat register of 500 sample housing projects with the columns every pivot depends on: Project ID, Approval Date, District, Project Type, Program, Developer, Funding Source, Investment, Housing Units, Duration, Project Manager, Permit Type, Status, Income Band, Month and Quarter. Keep the headers, replace the rows.
📊 Housing & Urban Development Dashboard vs. an Excel Build vs. Procore / Yardi Voyager
| Feature | Housing & Urban Development Dashboard (Google Sheets) | Microsoft Excel dashboard build | Procore / Yardi Voyager |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | $9.99 one-time ✅ | $60-200 for a comparable template, or days of build time | $375-1,200 / month, quoted per portfolio |
| Platform | Browser, any OS, no install ✅ | Desktop Excel or Microsoft 365 licence | Vendor cloud with onboarding project |
| Setup time | Under 10 minutes ✅ | 30-60 minutes to relink pivots and charts | 4-12 weeks of implementation |
| Real-time team collaboration | Native, unlimited editors ✅ | Co-authoring only on OneDrive / SharePoint | Yes, priced per named seat |
| Mobile access | Google Sheets app ✅ | Excel mobile, slicers are awkward | Dedicated app ✅ |
| Customisable fields | Edit any column and re-run the script ✅ | Editable, but pivots must be rebuilt | Configurable by an admin or the vendor |
| Share with a link | One Drive link, view or edit ✅ | Send a file or a OneDrive link | Guest seats usually billed |
| Project-level record lookup | Built-in Search tab, 16 fields ✅ | Needs a XLOOKUP block you write | Yes ✅ |
| Year-1 cost at 5 users | $9.99 ✅ | $60-200 plus Microsoft 365 seats | $4,500-14,400 |
For housing teams that want district, programme and funding visibility without an enterprise implementation, the Housing & Urban Development Dashboard sits in the sweet spot.
👥 Who This Template Is For — and Who It’s Not For
✅ This template is built for:
- Municipal housing and community development offices running 50-1,000 projects a year
- Affordable housing developers and CDCs tracking LIHTC, Housing Trust Fund and Section 8 pipelines side by side
- Urban planning consultants who report district-level delivery to a council or board each quarter
- Housing nonprofits and grant managers who need a funding-source and income-band split without buying a platform
- Programme managers who already live in Google Workspace and want one shared link, not emailed files
❌ This template is NOT for:
- Teams needing construction scheduling, RFIs, submittals or daily site logs — that is Procore’s job, not a spreadsheet’s
- Agencies that must file directly to a regulator from the system of record, with an audit trail and role-based permissions
- Portfolios above roughly 10,000 project rows, where a warehouse and Power BI will serve you better
- Anyone who needs tenant-level rent rolls, lease accounting or property management ledgers
⚙️ How to Use the Housing & Urban Development Dashboard
- Open the PDF in your download and click the Make a copy link to create your own editable copy in Google Drive.
- Open the Data sheet and read the 16 column headers before changing anything.
- Replace the 500 sample rows with your own projects, keeping the headers exactly as they are.
- Return to the Overview tab. KPI cards, pivots and charts recalculate against your data automatically.
- Click any slicer in the FILTERS strip to filter that page. All four charts and the Top 5 panel move together.
- To clear a filter, open the slicer and choose Select all. Slicers are per page, so each tab keeps its own view.
- Use the Search tab to pull the full record for a single Project ID.
- To change colours, edit the palette block at the top of the Apps Script file and re-run main().
💼 Real-World Use Cases
Maria manages a city housing office with eight districts. Every month she filters the Districts page to one neighbourhood, screenshots Investment vs Housing Units and Monthly Units Delivered, and drops both into her council pack — the numbers her committee argues about are the same ones on the shared link.
Devon runs a 40-project affordable housing nonprofit. He uses the Projects page to compare LIHTC against Housing Trust Fund and Inclusionary Zoning spend, and the Housing Units by Income Band ring to prove that low and very-low income units are holding their share as the pipeline grows.
Priya is a planning consultant with three municipal clients. She keeps one copy of the dashboard per client, uses the Funding page to show each of them their public-versus-private split and on-hold rate, and bills for the analysis instead of the spreadsheet plumbing.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
What KPIs does the Housing & Urban Development Dashboard track?
The Housing & Urban Development Dashboard tracks 16 KPI cards across four analysis pages: total investment, total projects, housing units, cost per unit, completed projects, average build months, LIHTC and Green Retrofit investment, urban infill projects, largest project, federal grant investment, private capital projects, unique developers and on-hold rate.
How long does setup take?
Under 10 minutes. Click the Make a copy link in the PDF, open the Data sheet, and paste your project register under the existing headers. Because the Housing & Urban Development Dashboard uses pivot tables rather than hard-coded ranges, no chart needs relinking afterwards.
How many housing projects can it handle?
Pivots, slicers and formulas in the Housing & Urban Development Dashboard already cover 1,000 data rows, so you can paste up to row 1001 with no edits. To go further, open the bundled Apps Script file, raise the DATA_ROWS constant and re-run main().
How does this compare to Procore or Yardi Voyager?
Those platforms manage construction execution and property accounting and start around $375 per month. The Housing & Urban Development Dashboard is a $9.99 one-time reporting layer for programme, district and funding analysis. Many teams run both, using the dashboard for board-level reporting.
Why do the KPI cards ignore the slicers?
By design. The KPI cards and At a Glance list in the Housing & Urban Development Dashboard use SUMIFS and COUNTIFS against the Data sheet so they always show programme-wide totals, while the charts, pivots and Top 5 panels respond to slicers. You read the whole and the slice at once.
Can I change the colours and branding?
Yes. The Housing & Urban Development Dashboard is generated by an Apps Script whose palette sits in one block at the top of the file. Edit the ink, accent and gold values, re-run main(), and every header, KPI card and chart series in the workbook repaints.
Do I need any add-ons or macros?
No. The Housing & Urban Development Dashboard runs on standard Google Sheets features — native pivot tables, native slicers, built-in charts and SUMIFS. There is no add-on to install, no marketplace approval to request and nothing to enable.
👤 About the Author
Built by PK — Microsoft Certified Professional with 15+ years of Excel, Google Sheets, and Power BI experience. Founder of NextGenTemplates, reaching 300K+ subscribers across YouTube channels (@PK-AnExcelExpert, @NextGenTemplates, @NeoTechNavigators). Every template is hand-built and tested before release.
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