2023 Open Data Challege Finalist - Housing Information Portal

<div><b>Participant: </b>Noah Urban</div><div><b>Affiliation:</b> Data Driven Detroit</div><div><b>Participant Insights:</b> &quot;<span style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'>We submitted the Housing Information Portal, through which we provide information on up-to-date housing and property conditions in Detroit's neighborhoods. The tool allows users to access a ton of data and statistics about housing and property in their neighborhoods, and over half of the indicators on its profile pages (sample page here:<a href='https://hip.datadrivendetroit.org/custom-profiles/genesis-hope/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'> https://hip.datadrivendetroit.org/custom-profiles/genesis-hope/</a>) are sourced from the City's Open Data Portal.</span><span style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'> </span><span style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><span style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'>To me, this represents a fantastic example of the power of Open Data. After demonstrating the Portal, we had one CDO tell us that he was able to get more relevant information about his neighborhood from ten minutes of using this tool than he had been able to get</span><span style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'> </span><span style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'>from entire summers of having interns working on data collection.</span><span style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'>”</span></span><span style='background-color:transparent; color:windowtext; font-family:&quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI_EmbeddedFont&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI_MSFontService&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:11pt; margin:0px; padding:0px;'> </span></div>