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Northern Virginia & Blacksburg
Find Your Way Home.
Verified homes, shelters and rent help. Ask in plain words.
A Walkthrough of the Live Map
A recording of the map in use: switch regions, pick a neighborhood, open a listing. Open the live map to try it yourself.
What’s in the list
- 419verified housing and shelter records across Northern Virginia and Blacksburg
- 31emergency shelters
- 5legal aid services
- 75listings with a rent we could read
Counted from the verified list the app serves, as of October 25, 2026, after unverified, hidden and duplicate records are left out. These are records, not open beds or available homes: confirm with the provider. The list grows as we review more sources.
How Clear Home Helps
Search Near My Office
Closest homes with real drive and transit times.
Built with Google Cloud
AI
Gemma 4 26B
Writes every chat answer.
AI
Gemma 4 26B
Turns your message into filters, then writes the answer using only verified listings, streamed as it types. It also rereads listing pages and hides ones that are gone.
GPU
Gemma on Cloud Run
Our own L4 GPU: answers in ~3 s.
GPU
Gemma on Cloud Run
Gemma 4 runs on our private Cloud Run service with an NVIDIA L4 GPU. Thinking is off so replies start fast; if the GPU is asleep, the Gemini API answers instead.
Search
Gemini API
Finds new listings on the web.
Search
Gemini API
Searches the web with Google Search grounding for listings we don’t have yet. Only places in the search results are kept, and the map marks them “not verified”.
Maps
Maps JavaScript
The map, pins and Street View.
Maps
Maps JavaScript
Draws the map in the app with a pin for every verified home, so you can see where a place is before you call.
Maps
Places API
Finds “near my office”.
Maps
Places API
Finds the place you name (an employer, a hospital, a school) and the supermarkets, pharmacies and transit stops near a home.
Maps
Routes API
Real commute times.
Maps
Routes API
Drive and transit times from the closest homes to your place, and true walking times to the store. Real routes, not straight lines.
Cloud
Cloud Run
Hosts the site and the GPU.
Cloud
Cloud Run
Hosts the site in Northern Virginia (us-east4). Keys live in Secret Manager, and at most two copies run, so costs stay small.
Cloud
Cloud Build
Ships every release.
Cloud
Cloud Build
Every deploy builds a fresh container from our Dockerfile, so a pushed fix is live in minutes.
Open Source, on GitHub
clearhome
backend/advisor.py Gemma 4 chat, grounded in our list
backend/gemma_gpu.py Gemma 4 on our Cloud Run GPU
backend/nearby.py “near my office” with Places + Routes
backend/walkable.py walking times to groceries and bus stops
frontend/listing-map.js Google Maps with house pins
gemma/Dockerfile the 17 GB Gemma 4 GPU image
data/resources.json 430+ hand-verified records
backend/test_*.py tests that run offline
phonehseng / clearhome
Clear Home: verified affordable housing, shelters and rent help for Northern Virginia and Blacksburg, built with Gemma 4 and Google Cloud.
- Python + JavaScript
- Flask · Gemma 4 · Google Maps · Cloud Run
Ready When You Are.
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