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September 24, 2007
Poverty Center Presentation at 2007 National Vacant Properties Campaign Conference
Michael Schramm, analyst/programmer at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, travels to Pittsburgh to present the following at the 2007 Vacant Properties conference convened by the National Vacant Properties Campaign and the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank:
The National Vacant Properties Campaign exists to provide everyone – individuals, advocates, agencies, developers, non-profits, and others – with information resources, tools, and assistance to support their vacant property revitalization efforts and recognizes NEO CANDO as a national model for neighborhood information systems that serve parcel data to the public.
NEO CANDO: Community applications of neighborhood information
This presentation describes the importance of parcel data to a land assembly/blight removal initiative partnership with 6 community development corporations, Neighborhood Progress, Inc, the Poverty Center at Case Western Reserve University, and the Community Advocacy Clinic at Cleveland State University.
NEO CANDO: An early warning system for at-risk properties
In this presentation, Michael describes how NEO CANDO parcel data are being used in the community as an early warning system to identify at-risk properties for purposes of intervention.
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