Sydney Jones, Philadelphia code violations dashboard#36
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User Persona:
Primary User
This dashboard was built as a tool for Philadelphia City Councilmembers to visualize code enforcement implementation within their district.
Needs
Councilmembers and their teams can see the spatial distribution of violations across their district overlaid on top of a choropleth of different neighborhood characteristics. They can filter by year, severity of violation, case status, and other metrics.
Motivations
This tool can help elected officials choose areas to target for resource infusion. Ideally, the tool would be used as a preventative measure to help guide decisions on targeted outreach for home owners and tenants in need of home repairs. The most common violations are for overgrown weeds and exterior maintenance, issues that can be addressed with relatively low-cost solutions that may be inaccessible to different residents due to economic, mobility, and temporal constraints, among others. Providing residents with assistance before they interact with code enforcement can help to prevent the excessive issuance of violations, costly fines and fees, and the potential health problems common with living in substandard housing.