Trinity College FYFO232: Invisible Cities Google Mash-ups

Problem Properties  (back to index page)

The Hartford cityscape is dotted with abandoned buildings; the purpose of this map is to link these buildings directly to their owners. The neighborhood organizing group HART - Hartford Areas Rally Together - has long fought to improve every aspect of life in Hartford. Their strategy with abandoned buildings is to offer to help owners rehab their properties. As a first step, however, HART sometimes needs to provide some motivation for the owners to act. Making their names and numbers public is one tactic, which we've multiplied and broadcast with this map. Ultimately, we hope to link addresses with the frequency of 911 calls, and from there document just how much it costs the taxpayers of the city to maintain these wrecks.
The Trinity Center for Neighborhoods (TCN) and United Connecticut Action for Neighborhoods (UCAN) in association with the Comprehensive Communities Partnership Program of the City of Hartford have developed a manual and supporting documents to assist in collecting data about these properties and working with the owners to get issues resolved. You can download these materials here. You can also download an excel file of the entire dataset here.

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Information on properties in Hartford (owner, address, sale date, etc.) is readily available through the Hartford Assessor's office (http://www.hartford.gov/assessor/). The specific properties listed on this page were identified as problems by Hartford Areas Rally Together (HART) (http://www.hartnet.org/hart/) and cross-referenced with 2003 data from the City Scan project funded by the United Way of Connecticut's Community Results Center (http://www.city-scan.com/).

Disclaimers

This website is part of at ongoing student project at Trinity College and is, thus, subsequent to additions, subtractions, and other alterations. Although all attempts are being made to present accurate and complete information, please recognize the variable nature of this work. If you are concerned that you are being unfairly represented on this site, please contact Rachael Barlow (860-297-4114) or David Tatem (860-297-2124).

Mash up created by: Jared Kazanovicz, Michael Miyashiro

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