The Detroit Residential Parcel Survey, www.DetroitParcelSurvey.org, was a response to the urgent need for data on Detroit’s residencies, their structure, condition and vacancy, to report to and empower neighborhood stabilization activities.  Fifty University of Michigan students and Detroit residents worked in three-person teams to rate the condition of individual residential parcels on each Detroit street.

Media Genesis worked with the Detroit Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response (FPR), Data Driven Detroit (D3), and Community and Legal Resources (CLR) to create a web-based data display interface for the retrieval of the Detroit Residential Parcel Survey results.   Media Genesis designed and built the website, and developed the search functionality allowing users to easily learn about their neighborhood’s and city’s housing conditions.

www.DetroitParcelSurvey.org allows for wide-reaching access to a landmark survey of Detroit’s residential property, one that provides government officials, community organizations and individuals unprecedented access to the City of Detroit’s residential statistics.

Media Genesis is continuing to combine efforts with Data Driven Detroit to create an increasingly engaging and informative website, working to provide additional types of reports and detailed visualizations of the survey data. New functionality will include more extensive search capabilities as well as result-based graph generation.

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