A Step in the Right Direction: Chicago's Expansion of Vacant Building Registrations
Comparing the Chicago vacant building dataset with HUD/USPS data shows substantial differences in the number of units reported, although those may be largely the result of the differences in the reporting criteria for the two datasets. Despite the differences in reporting criteria, both datasets reflect the effects of decades of disinvestment and population loss that have been concentrated in lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color within the city, the disproportionate impact of the foreclosure crisis in those same neighborhoods, and the failure of those neighborhoods to b
