{"id":226077,"date":"2026-06-04T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/can-ai-make-housing-more-affordable-jacksonville-uses-new-technology-to-speed-permits-and-cut-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:45:11","slug":"can-ai-make-housing-more-affordable-jacksonville-uses-new-technology-to-speed-permits-and-cut-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/can-ai-make-housing-more-affordable-jacksonville-uses-new-technology-to-speed-permits-and-cut-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Can AI make housing more affordable? Jacksonville uses new technology to speed permits and cut costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/04\/can-ai-make-housing-more-affordable-jacksonville-uses-new-technology-to-speed-permits-and-cut-costs\/\">Can AI make housing more affordable? Jacksonville uses new technology to speed permits and cut costs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/04\/can-ai-make-housing-more-affordable-jacksonville-uses-new-technology-to-speed-permits-and-cut-costs\/\">https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/04\/can-ai-make-housing-more-affordable-jacksonville-uses-new-technology-to-speed-permits-and-cut-costs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 11:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.news4jax.com\">www.news4jax.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jacksonville is facing an estimated shortage of 50,000 affordable housing units, prompting a focus on expediting the permitting process through artificial intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<li>The city has partnered with SwiftGov, a Florida technology company, to use AI in reviewing development plans to comply with local codes and regulations.<\/li>\n<li>SwiftBuild.ai, SwiftGov\u2019s system, aims to reduce the lengthy, weeks-to-months permitting timeline to mere minutes by analyzing plans for compliance.<\/li>\n<li>After initial lower accuracy rates, AI is now achieving approximately 93% accuracy due to training with Jacksonville\u2019s local codes and regulations.<\/li>\n<li>AI will supplement human reviewers, providing a sufficiency review and potentially reducing initial review periods by 45 to 60 days.<\/li>\n<li>Supporters argue that time savings in permitting could significantly reduce carrying costs passed on to developers, buyers, or renters, thereby lowering housing costs and accelerating construction.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative is scheduled to start on June 15, with human reviewers retaining final authority for all permit approvals.<\/li>\n<li>AI implementation is being expanded to other Florida governments such as Walton, Pasco, and Hernando counties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can AI make housing more affordable? Jacksonville uses new technology to speed permits and cut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/graham-media-group\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto\/c_thumb,w_700\/v1\/media\/gmg\/N6EAPXM45ZAIPH7E72YKI2NVUE.png?_a=DATAg1iuZAA0","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-226077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226079,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226077\/revisions\/226079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}