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Planned Hard to Count Outreach Programs for 2020
This is the tenth blog post in an in-depth series exploring the history and future of the US Census. Explore our first post introducing readers to the history of the census and its importance. If you’re interested in other subjects related to the census, check out the...
Census 2010’s Hard to Count Outreach Efforts
This is the ninth blog post in an in-depth series exploring the history and future of the US Census. Explore our first post introducing readers to the history of the census and its importance. If you’re interested in other subjects related to the census, check out the...
Partnering to Better Understand Opportunity Youth in Detroit
Data Driven Detroit is excited to announce a partnership with Microsoft and The Skillman Foundation to test out a new approach to measure “Opportunity Youth” (OY). OY are typically defined as young adults 16-24 years old who are neither working nor enrolled in school...
School District Shopping in Metro Detroit
At D3, we spend a lot of time thinking about making data more useful to people who are making decisions, and sometimes we re-discover just how challenging that can be when we want to use data to make a decision in our own lives. Making a choice about where to live,...
Boom and Bust: Detroit’s Housing Construction Trends
The history of housing in Detroit has been told through historical accounts of rapid expansion and depopulation; of demographic change and racial segregation; and of “urban renewal” and displacement. More recently, though, narratives in media have centered on stemming...
Looking Toward the Future of Detroit’s Rental Housing Landscape
When looking for an apartment to rent in Detroit, there’s no shortage of places to look. From Craigslist, apartments.com, Zillow, to Trulia, they all have troves of information for a renter on a budget. But these are only pieces of Detroit’s rental housing, and Data...
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