BNIA-JFI completed the first phase of research as part of a NNIP cross-site project examining the affects of foreclosures on children. This project identified both the number and characteristics of children affected by foreclosure in Baltimore City’s neighborhoods from the 2003-2004 to the 2008-2009 school year, providing a picture of the demographic, neighborhood, schools, and housing characteristics.
Little information exists about the children living in families facing foreclosure. Having well-grounded analysis raises the profile of how the crisis is affecting children and spurs local conversations about how communities can minimize the negative effects. To inform national and local policy, NNIP launched a cross-site project supported by the Open Society Foundations and Fannie Mae on the effects of foreclosures on the residential and school mobility of school-age children.
The Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance (BNIA) produced a report for the Executive Director of Baltimore’s Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative, Inc. (HNI, Inc.) that was used to guide the selection of new investment areas. HNI, Inc. targets neighborhoods for improvement that have a strong housing stock, and seem likely to rapidly improve if they receive an infusion of new investments.
Wednesday, January 1, 2020 to Saturday, January 1, 2022
The Community Innovation and Action Center (CIAC) worked alongside St. Louis City departments and the region’s largest home repair providers to shed light on a problem...
A team of researchers from CURA will produce a study of the potential impacts of a rent stabilization policy for the City of Minneapolis. The study will examine...
The cross-site project, Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis, aimed to help local stakeholders in Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. design more effective data-driven strategies to address the foreclosure crisis.
Project Tasks
Analyze the neighborhood and metropolitan market conditions to assess the risk of foreclosure, and the possible impacts expected by different types of neighborhoods.
Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (New York)
2011
The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and NYU's Institute for Education and Social Policy have been awarded a grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This work follows up on the research they completed as participants in the NNIP cross-site project on Foreclosures Effects on Children, funded by the Open Society Foundations.
BNIA-JFI provided a variety of data and resources to Public Policy students at Johns Hopkins University in their analysis of the impacts of the national recession on Baltimore’s neighborhoods. Results of the analyses were presented in a lecture series and covered by various media outlets. The final reports are being published by Johns Hopkins University.
The Oakland Community Land Trust has continued to scale with new properties coming online each month. We sold our first home and continue to expand our rehab and outreach work to make more permanently affordable homeownership opportunities available as soon as possible.
From a proprietary database purchased from Excensus we have the post-foreclosure address of approximate 3,000 households of the 30,000 foreclosures in Hennepin County from 2005-2008. We are using this data to examine the geographic distribution and housing types of post-foreclosure households and are considering expanding the data to surrounding counties.
CURA and the Federal Reserve Bank Minneapolis Branch co-hosted a conference in Minneapolis on Utilizing Data to Manage Neighborhood Change. The 100 participants included staff from nonprofits, city agencies, research organizations, and residents. Along with CURA’s nonprofit partners, Jeff Matson presented their newly released Housing Market Index for North Minneapolis during the opening panel. Kathy Pettit from the Urban Institute was the luncheon speaker, describing NNIP and telling the stories of how neighborhood data has been used to address housing issues by the Pittsburgh and Washi
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and the Federal Reserve Board are co-hosting an interactive conference in Baltimore, Maryland on creative uses of data and technology to promote public and private investment in transitional communities. The purpose of the convening is to bring together community stakeholders to discuss ways of using data to make more strategic neighborhood stabilization decisions given limited resources.
The Council was awarded the Innovation in Crime Mapping award at the recent Crime Mapping conference in Miami held by the National Institute of Justice (Part of the US Dept of Justice). The winning map showed how Urban Strategies Council analyzed both neighborhood housing and foreclosure trends and local crime patterns when considering how to implement our Community Land Trust as a strategy for neighborhood stabilization.
NeighborhoodInfo DC will continue its tracking of foreclosure activity in Washington, D.C., and the region in 2012. The data we provide are used by local government agencies, community-based nonprofits, and legal assistance providers to help homeowners and renters who are at risk of losing their homes because of foreclosure. We plan to expand our data tracking to include indicators for the foreclosure mediation program implemented in the District of Columbia late last year.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
February 13, 2012
WEWS Channel 5 news did a feature on NEO CANDO and the Poverty Center's work related to foreclosure and vacancy in Cuyahoga County. Both Dr. Claudia Coulton and Mike Schramm were interviewed for the story.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
March 1, 2012 to June 30, 2012
As a follow-up to our earlier work in South Pittsburgh's Hilltop communities, the PNCIS will be collecting data to develop a better understanding of the mortgage characteristics of properties recently in foreclosure. This information will be matched to HMDA loan-level records to develop an understanding of property owners facing foreclosure in the Hilltop. Our partners at NeighborWorks will use this information to target and refine counseling efforts in these communities.
With support from the Baltimore Homeownership Preservation Coalition, BNIA-JFI collects and provides data on all mortgage foreclosure filings within Baltimore City. Use of the map allows for interactive display of foreclosure filings for each quarter starting in 2007 of foreclosure filings in each neighborhood within Baltimore City.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
March 6, 2012
The Poverty Center's Neighborhood Stabilization Team Web Application (NST Web App) was selected as a Leadership in Community Innovation Award finalist. Four finalist groups competed for the award which included $25,000, funded by Key Bank, to go toward continuing projects. While the Center did not win the final award, it was an honor for the NST Web App to be recognized and selected as a finalist.
Prince George’s County, Maryland, has been hard-hit by the housing crisis. Through the first three quarters of 2012, one of every ten homes in Prince George’s County received a Notice of Intent to Foreclose (NOI) which indicates the borrower is in default and must be filed before a servicer can start foreclosure proceedings. In 2011 nearly one in six began the process toward foreclosure. In the last three months in Prince George’s alone, over 30,818 families lost or faced the loss of their homes.
Wednesday, January 1, 2020 to Saturday, January 1, 2022
The Community Innovation and Action Center (CIAC) worked alongside St. Louis City departments and the region’s largest home repair providers to shed light on a problem...
In the fall of 2013, in collaboration with Children’s Mercy Hospital (CMH) of Kansas City, CEI was awarded grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...
An audience of 178 housing experts, government analysts, nonprofit leaders and others gathered for the second annual Charlotte Data Day. The day-long event, hosted by the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s Charlotte Branch in partnership with the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, included presentations and workshops focused on local, state and national housing data.
Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (New York)
November 13, 2014
Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City (NHSNYC) is honoring the Furman Center at its 2014 Benefit: Conversation, Cocktails, and Camaraderie on Thursday, November 13, 2014.
The Furman Center is honored to receive this recognition of our work, which in recent years has included research on the causes and consequences of foreclosure, the effectiveness of foreclosure prevention programs, and access to homeownership.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
November 9, 2015
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Using data from NEO CANDO, Michael Gareau Jr., director of law of North Olmsted, reported that foreclosures in the city have declined from 118 between January 1 through September 30, 2014 to only 65 during the same period of 2015. Gareau explained these findings to the North Olmsted city council on November 4 according to a Cleveland.com article.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
December 1, 2015
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Severance Town Center in Cleveland Heights went into foreclosure this past June. Dr. Mark Chupp, a faculty associate of the Poverty Center, participated in a public forum about the troubled retail property as reported by Freshwater Cleveland in "Cleveland Heights residents voice their ideas for a city landmark" on November 19, 2015.
Following the foreclosure crisis, Oakland faced a serious problem of an increasing number of vacant buildings. Vacant properties, particularly if not well-maintained, can negatively affect the safety and quality of life in a neighborhood and the resulting lower property values reduce the wealth of remaining homeowners. The acquisition of foreclosed properties by investors who either keep the property vacant to sell later and/or are irresponsible about property upkeep can produce similarly harmful neighborhood effects.
Wednesday, January 1, 2020 to Saturday, January 1, 2022
The Community Innovation and Action Center (CIAC) worked alongside St. Louis City departments and the region’s largest home repair providers to shed light on a problem...
