1. Vacant and Distressed Property and Community Health and Safety
April Hirsh Urban
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development

2. Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development Research and data innovations to strengthen communities and families

3. Research Products
Access all: and-lead-exposure/ Full Report- includes detailed methodology, literature review Online report- interactive, shortened, excludes detailed methods, aimed at policy makers Interactive map- view data/map layers, download data

4. Methods- TCI City-wide Survey
Start with 2015 TCI city-wide (Cleveland) vacancy and condition survey
Each property in the city of Cleveland is observed, surveyers measured vacancy, graded condition, measured a number of other factors
Going to provide a visual example of our methods. Orange dots represent properties surveyed. Blue dots represent vacant properties.

5. Optimized Hot Spot Analysis
We used optimized hot spot analysis to help answer our questions about the relationship between vacancy, property condition, crime, and lead exposure.
Going to provide a visual example of our methods. Orange dots represent properties surveyed. Blue dots represent vacant properties.

6. Optimized Hot Spot Analysis
We used hot spot analysis to find geographic concentrations, or clusters, of vacancy, condition, crime and lead exposure.
The tool helps find clusters by calculating the distance between points, in this example, blue points, and comparing it to the overall distance in the study area. Finding hot spots- where there are clusters of points, and cold spots, where there are absences of points.

7. Methods- Tabular Comparison

8. Methods- Time Line Observed lead exposure Observed crime incidents
Observed vacancy and condition
January 2015
December 2015
June 2015
October 2015

9. Data Sources
Property vacancy and condition- Western Reserve Land Conservancy Crime incidents- address level incidents from Cleveland Department of Public Safety Lead exposure- elevated blood lead level (5 mg/dL or greater) in children under 6, address level, from Ohio Department of Health* *Lead data provided by the Ohio Department of Health. This should not be considered an endorsement of this study or these conclusions by the ODH.

10. Within the scope Beyond the scope
Spatial patterns of vacancy, distress, crime, and lead exposure Hot spots, cold spots Tabular overlap of crime and lead exposure with vacancy and distress
Character and nature or the relationship
Anything beyond the time point of the study

17. Findings Are also vacancy hot spots 61.7% of EBLL hot spots
65.4% of all violent crime hot spots
83.2 % of homicide hot spots
76.2% of aggravated assault hot spots
75% of weapons violations hot spots
Are also vacancy hot spots

18. Expectation: Co-occurance increases with hot spots of vacant, distressed properties

21. Are vacant ABC hot spots
61.9% of EBLL hot spots 64.2% of violent crime hot spots 82.0% of homicide hot spots 77.7% of weapons violations hot spots 74.1% of aggravated assault hot spots
62.9% of EBLL hot spots
60.3% of all violent crime hot spots
78.7% of homicide hot spots
63.1% of weapons violations hot spots
69.2% of aggravated assault hot spots
Are vacant DF hot spots
Are vacant ABC hot spots

22. Conclusions
Vacancy is heavily concentrated on the east side Hot spots of violent crime are often also hot spots of vacant properties Spatial patterns show merit in considering characteristics of the physical environment in health and safety programs and targeting

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April Hirsh Urban
Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development