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A Neighborhood’s Most Important Asset: Walkability
Walkability is becoming a major factor in the future of communities, as suggested by the New York Times’ coverage on the slowing growth of exurbs (or outer suburbs.) Recently released census data indicates that migration to the exurbs remains slow even as America...
Meet the Staff: Kat Hartman
Data Driven Detroit (D3) is proud to count among its staff a number of members with a history of doing data-driven and socially conscious work. Today we profile the work of Kat Hartman, one of D3’s Research Analysts and the head of our Communications Team. Hartman, a...
“Detroit’s One-Child School Readiness” Study Illustrates Tax-Payer Savings
On Wednesday, April 25th, The Fisher Foundation issued a report stating that Michigan tax-payers save $100,000 for every Detroit child that is fully prepared when they enter kindergarten. The “Detroit’s One-Child School Readiness Dividend” study calculated the...
D3’s Kurt Metzger at Warren/Conner’s Town Hall
On April 26, the Warren/Conner Development Coalition hosted a town hall meeting on City Council districts (“How Can the Council District System Facilitate the Change We Need in Our Neighborhoods?”). The town hall meeting’s goals were to educate local residents and...
Food Insecurity Across America
by Louis Bach, Communications Check out the food insecurity map created by Feeding America, which visualizes the USDA’s measure of households that lack access to nutritionally adequate food. (Food insecurity, in other words, means that a household sometimes goes...
County Health Rankings and Ratings
Would you have guessed that, by one measure, the healthiest county overall in Michigan is Leelanau? Now, thanks to the "County Health Rankings and Ratings," a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin's Population Health...
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