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Data-Driven Organizing

Learn how the Pittsburgh Neighborhood and Community Information System, based at the University of Pittsburgh, is using data-driven strategies to prevent vacancy, address blight, foster recovery, and promote market restoration in Pittsburgh's Hilltop communities.

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Data-Driven Organizing

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  1. Data-Driven Organizing Information-Based Foreclosure Prevention and Response in Pittsburgh’s Hilltop Communities University Center for Social and Urban Research

  2. Pittsburgh Neighborhood and Community Information System • Community information system serving the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County since 2004 • Based at the University of Pittsburgh • Member of the Urban Institute’s National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership • Key partners include Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development and the City of Pittsburgh

  3. South Pittsburgh’s Hilltop • Historic working/middle class communities • Growing alarm over increased vacancy and blight • Foreclosures have had tremendous negative impact Hilltop

  4. Partners • Hilltop Alliance • NeighborWorks Western Pennsylvania

  5. Project Goals • Prevent Vacancy and Foreclosure • Address Blight • Foster Recovery • Distressed Sale: A sale of any residential property with a foreclosure filing in either year of or year prior to sale

  6. It all starts with research… • Who has recently gone into foreclosure? • Tenure • Loan characteristics • Buyer characteristics • Sale characteristics • Property location • Reason for foreclosure

  7. Prevent Vacancy • Use research to predict whom is at greatest risk of foreclosure • Target counseling efforts to highest-risk properties • Inform owners and tenants living in affected properties of their rights • Encourage those impacted NOT to vacate the property

  8. Address Blight • Closely monitor vacancy • Notify building inspectors and police when properties enter foreclosure or REO ownership • Evaluate existing large property owners for signs of portfolio distress • Monitor disposition of REOs • Due diligence on new buyers of distressed property

  9. Foster Recovery • Credit counseling and repair • Social services • Long-term community strategies • Vacant property and blight • Market restoration

  10. Requirements • Timely data • Community partners • Information intermediary • Good ideas stolen from Cleveland

  11. National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership • Data collection strategies • Effective practices in uses of information • Critical research • Networking

  12. Contact Us Pittsburgh Neighborhood and Community Information System University Center for Social and Urban Research University of Pittsburgh 121 University Place Pittsburgh, PA 15260 US 412-624-9177 E-mail: pncis@pitt.edu Project Website: http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/pncis.php Pittsburgh Urban Blog: http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/thepub.php

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