Research from
NEO CANDO
and the Mandel School's
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development has become a critical part of a local effort to address the housing crisis in Cleveland. On February 13, TV reporter Joe Pagonakis provided a behind-the-scenes look at recent foreclosure figures in northeast Ohio.
Read the NewsChannel5 report.
The Plain Dealer refers to and analyses data regarding
"The Changing Face of Poverty," a Briefly Stated report by the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, at the
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, at
Case Western Reserve University.
The
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at
Case Western Reserve University released a report entitled
The Changing Face of Poverty in Northeast Ohio
which details the increase in poverty across the region.
"The depth of this recession has pushed people over the edge," said Dr
Claudia Coulton
, Co-Director of the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
in "
The new poor: Situational poverty on the rise locally
" in
The News-Messenger
of
Fremont, Ohio. The story cites that according to the
U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 saw the highest number of people living in poverty since the first reports were published over half a century ago and that 12.2 percent of residents of
Sandusky County (where Fremont is the county seat) live at or below the poverty level. Suburbs and more rural areas are showing the fastest rise in poverty, according to the
Brookings Institution, and many of these people have little experience in dealing with the situation. Read the
December 3, 2011 article and continue below.
A study by the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
based on 2008 data concluded that children who had been enrolled in pre-kindergarten programs sponsored by
Cuyahoga County scored better in kindergarten readiness than children who attended other programs or did not attend preschool. This study is mentioned in a
November 27, 2011 article in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer
. Read "
Cuyahoga County invests in preschool, while Cleveland schools cut programs
" and continue below.
Associate Professor David Crampton recently appeared on WCPN-90.3 to talk with local officials after Cuyahoga County social workers placed an 8-year-old boy in foster care. The 200-pound third grader was removed from his home because many believed the boy’s mother was neglecting his health needs. Crampton was interviewed by Sound of Ideas host Mike McIntyre, who provided details of the case, along with special guest Sumana Narasinham, MD, director of Healthy Kids/Healthy Weight program, University Hospitals; Shakyra Diaz, policy director, Ohio ACLU; and Patricia Rideout, chief administrator, Cuyahoga County Department of Children & Family Services.
Michael Schramm
, MA, a research associate and analyst/programmer at the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
will be presenting at the
Strategic Data-Use to Stabilize Neighborhoods conference
in
Baltimore, Maryland on December 6, 2011. The conference is presented by the
Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Schramm, who is also the Director of Information Technology and Research at the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation (often known as the
Land Bank) will be presenting
Using Data to Drive Neighborhood Investment along with:
Ira Goldstein, Managing Director for Policy,
The Reinvestment Fund, Philadelphia; Karla Henderson, Group Executive of Planning and Facilities,
Detroit Mayor's Office;
Danielle Lewinski, Director of Planning and Technical Programs,
Community Legal Resources, Detroit; and
Frank Ford, Senior Vice President, Research and Development,
Neighborhood Progress, Inc., Cleveland. They will discuss and give their perspectives on how
Cleveland,
Detroit, and
Philadelphia address new and promising ways of disinvestment by using data, mapping, and community engagement.
Graphing data from
NEO CANDO
,
WCPN Ideastream reports that "
after a brief respite, the number of foreclosures in Ohio are rising again
" according to the
Mortgage Bankers' Association. NEO CANDO, the Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing, is a social indicators data warehouse and research platform run by the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
. The graph generated using NEO CANDO data shows the third quarter of 2011 saw nearly 400 more foreclosure filings in
Cuyahoga County than the second quarter. Read the
November 21, 2011 report by Cleveland area
NPR affiliate
90.3 WCPN and
download the .mp3 of the broadcast.
CBC News
journalist
Paul Hunter recently visited
Cleveland to investigate how the city is combating the ongoing foreclosure crisis. Hunter met with Gus Frangos, president of the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation (often known as the
Land Bank), who illustrated the severity of the situation with a map showing the more than 15,000 properties in Cleveland suffering foreclosure, generated with data from the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
's
NEO CANDO
(Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing). Watch the video "
On the Road Ahead: Cleveland
" from November 14, 2011 at
CBC News The National
or below.
NEO CANDO is one of the tools being utilized by residents of the
City of South Euclid
to fight the blight of vacant and foreclosed houses as mentioned in "
South Euclid left with responsibility of dealing with vacant homes: Your Turn
" in the
Sun Messenger
. NEO CANDO, the Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing system, is developed by
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
. South Euclid is using NEO CANDO to track and map trends in foreclosure as one of its many tools to combat the crisis. Other methods the city is employing include fostering strategic partnerships, working with
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People (ESOP), and utilizing the
Cuyahoga Land Bank. Read the
November 4, 2011 editorial in the
Sun Messenger.
The
Brookings Institution
reports that Northeast Ohio has shown some of the fastest growth in the nation for the number of people living in extremely poor neighborhoods, a situation that Dr
Claudia Coulton
, co-director of the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, confirmed in
a November 3, 2011 article in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer
. Brookings' "
The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty: Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s
" looked at the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the country where at least 40 percent of residents were at or below the poverty level including 24,000 residents in "high-density" suburbs such as
Cleveland Heights,
Elyria,
Euclid,
Kent,
Lorain, and
Painesville. "Yes, this is exactly what we've seen," said Dr. Coulton about the report. "It [poverty] has hit the suburbs hard." Read more in "
Brookings report finds poverty-stricken neighborhoods jump dramatically in Cleveland area" in the
Plain Dealer and below.
Richey Piiparinen
, MA, MUPDD, research assistant at the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development was invited to be one of the guest bloggers at the
Living Cities Integration Initiatives
20th Anniversary event on September 27, 2011 at the
Newseum in
Washington, DC. Piiparinen contributed two entries during the event: "
Urban Decline: Can it be as simple as a lack of communication?" and "
The Future of Blue Collar Philanthropy". The eight guest writers from around the country were asked to blog their experiences and perspectives as public, private, and philanthropic sector leaders spoke about collaboration, innovation, and urban social change over the past two decades.
Dr
Rob Fischer
, Co-Director of the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, was contacted for the
Huffington Post
article "
The New Face Of American Poverty Is Often A Child's
". Fisher explained in the story that "as families cycle in and out of poverty, faith-based service programs tend to catch people who fall through the cracks of other safety nets."
The recently released
Spotlight on the Housing Market in Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor
by the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the
U.S. Department of the Treasury highlights the
Cuyahoga County Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) and its use of the "sophisticated mapping system" that is
NEO CANDO
(Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing) by the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development.
Dr
Cyleste Collins
, a research assistant professor at the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, is presenting at
Foreclosures and the Family: The Impact and What Works
by
Community Housing Solutions. This
Family Stability Initiative Conference is being held on Thursday, October 27 from 8:30am to 12:30pm at the
Dolan Center for Science and Technology of
John Carroll University in
University Heights, Ohio. Dr. Collins's topic is "
The Impact of Foreclosure on the Family". She is joined by co-presenters
David Rothstein of
Policy Matters Ohio and
John Ropar, director of the
John Carroll University Counseling Center.
The
Washington Post featured the
Cleveland foreclosure and vacant properties crisis with
"Banks turn to demolition of foreclosed properties to ease housing-market pressures" including the slideshow
"Cleveland could hold the future of the foreclosure crisis: Demolition"
. Slide 9 features a map of foreclosed properties in Cleveland that was created using data from the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
's
NEO CANDO
(Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing) by the the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corp (often known as the
Land Bank).
Richey Piiparinen
, MA, MUPDD, research assistant at the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
was
recently featured in the Friday Five Questions segment of
The Daily
, the digital newspaper of
Case Western Reserve University, on September 23, 2011. In addition to his work at the Center, Piiparinen writes for
Rust Wire, a regional blog dedicated to growth in the
Rust Belt, and helped start the urban art therapy and architectural reworking
W. 83rd Street Project. Learn about Rihey's
preferred music and books, his favorite things about CWRU and Cleveland, and more.
The
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
is updating its map series for the density of individual food stamp recipients in the
City of Cleveland and
Cuyahoga County from July 2000 through July 2009. Maps for 2010 and 2011 will be produced in the near future. Among its many functions,
NEO CANDO
(Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing) allows users to extract data across geography and time to examine trends such as food stamp enrollment. Neighborhoods in Cleveland continue to have the greatest percentages of individuals receiving Food Stamps. The greatest increases in the number of food stamp recipients, however, are found in Cuyahoga's suburbs.
Download maps for years 2000-2009 as a single PDF (full screen view). You can also watch a
video slideshow of years 2001-2008.
Michael Schramm
, MA, a research associate and analyst/programmer at the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
, presented at the
Data Driven '11
conference of
Community Research Partners on September 23, 2011 in
Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Schramm presented "
NEO CANDO: a Data-Driven Response to Foreclosure in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County
" (PowerPoint). According to a
Saturday, September 24 article in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, 2011 marks the first year in which all 41 counties in
Ohio that are reappraising or updating property values saw decline. Dr.
Claudia Coulton
, Co-Director of the
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
comments that "it hasn't turned around. The economy is still bad and people are still worried about their jobs and people are having difficulty getting loans to buy homes. We still have a stalled housing market." All though
Cuyahoga County will not conclude it's reappriasal until 2012, several other counties in
NEO CANDO's area re included:
Geauga,
Ashtabula, and
Summit. Read "
Property values fall across Ohio as every county undergoing reappraisal sees drop
" and more below.