- voter registration,
- Fire Department
Government
Geodata/areas
- DETROIT WORKS DEMONSTRATION AREA:
- PLANNING CLUSTER: 3
- MASTER PLAN NEIGHBORHOOD: St. Jean
- NEXT DETROIT NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE:
- NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION AREA: Kettering
- Police precinct
Property and Planning
- Detroit Residential Parcel Survey
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Section 8 Housing:
- Section 8 Choice vouchers
- Section 8 housing locations (87 in total)
- Is this happening in Detroit? http://www.chicagoreporter.com/news/2012/07/home-evasion
- HUD Michigan audit
- Find out who buys foreclosed homes. www.infoalamedacounty.org, http://www.infoalamedacounty.org/index.php/news/whoownsyourneighborhood.html
- http://sitemaker.umich.edu/urpoutreachreports/all_reports
- http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/planning/students/student_work/
Environment
- The Greening of Detroit has a list (database? spreadsheet?) of where all their trees are.
Transportation
- Detroit Department of Transportation: Bus route data - http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/agency/detroit-department-of-transportation/
- SEMCOG has a fairly extensive set of data and maps about Wayne County: http://www.semcog.org/Data_and_Maps.aspx
- In October 2011, DDOT got ~$200,000 from the fed gov't to create a asset management system
Education / Detroit Public Schools
- Academic data per school (currently as PDFs) http://www.detroit.k12.mi.us/schools/reports/
- DPS Police blotter (the DPSPD is an accredited force)
- External evaluation of HHS and Ed Department programs
- Check accreditation reports of local colleges
- Go to local college board meetings
Nonprofits
- What's the best approach to local issues? http://blog.givewell.org/2012/07/20/some-history-behind-our-shifting-approach-to-research/
Arts
- Michigan Cultural Data Project from PEW.
Elections & Finance
- Michigan Campaign Finance Network
- Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
- Michigan Secretary of State Campaign Finance Database
- Wayne County Commission meeting minutes
Crime
- Scrape court cases from the federal system
- Manual for the Michigan District Court's Judicial Information Systems