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Tools & Data

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Deadbeats Damage Their Neighbors

by Casey Thomas and Patrick Kerkstra Mar. 9

See the effects of tax-delinquent properties on your neighborhood and home.

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A License to Blight

by Casey Thomas and Patrick Kerkstra Mar. 9

Tax delinquent landlords and speculators are the biggest source of blight in Philadelphia.

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AVI assessments vs. sale prices

by Neil Budde Feb. 22

Analysis of sale prices vs. AVI assessments allows you to see how neighborhood may affect variances.

Projects

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Land
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What to do with cheap land: How about nothing?

by Isaiah Thompson Mar. 15

Critics say that by putting too little value on land, the city is making it easy for owners to sit on vacant lots – which are often a blight to the neighborhood – indefinitely.

Litter

Trash wins big in Bloomberg Mayors Challenge

by Emaleigh Doley Mar. 14

Houston’s ambitious ‘One Bin for All’ plan seeks to build a better way of coping with bad trash behavior – by making it easier for people to just toss their stuff and not have to think about it.

Open Government
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City crime data now distinguishes between “murders” and other “homicides”

by Isaiah Thompson Feb. 4

The data has been amended to include three, not one, categories of “homicide.”

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