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Baltimore's Problem with Vacant Houses: A Workshop

Baltimore's Problem with Vacant Houses

What do you know about vacant houses? Baltimore City has over 16,000 vacant homes that contribute to a wide range of challenges for Baltimore residents and neighborhoods. Are they "eyesores" that all need to be torn down? Or historic buildings with potential for reuse? Bring your questions and ideas to a free workshop on vacant housing in Baltimore dedicated to exploring this important issue facing Baltimore's historic neighborhoods.

This gist is a place to share data we are gathering for the workshop and experiment with visualizations using bl.ocks.org, D3 and related tools.

Data

Here are the tables I have transcribed and am using for visualizations/analysis:

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Year Baltimore Region Baltimore City Anne Arundel County Baltimore County Carroll County Harford County Howard County
1955 (Total Number of Firms) 2777 2249 99 242 100 65 22
Births 817 476 83 154 48 34 22
(Deaths) -949 -743 -41 -88 -41 -25 -11
Moves To 619 502 16 87 4 4 6
(Moves From) -619 -573 -7 -38 -6 -3 -2
1965 (Total Number of Firms) 2645 1911 150 367 105 75 37
Source County Number of Firms Destination County
Anne Arundel 1 Baltimore City
Baltimore County 6 Baltimore City
Carroll County 3 Baltimore City
Harford County 0 Baltimore City
Howard County 1 Baltimore City
Baltimore City 11 Anne Arundel
Baltimore County 0 Anne Arundel
Carroll County 0 Anne Arundel
Harford County 0 Anne Arundel
Howard County 0 Anne Arundel
Baltimore City 65 Baltimore County
Anne Arundel 0 Baltimore County
Carroll County 1 Baltimore County
Harford County 0 Baltimore County
Howard County 0 Baltimore County
Baltimore City 2 Carroll County
Anne Arundel 0 Carroll County
Baltimore County 0 Carroll County
Harford County 0 Carroll County
Howard County 0 Carroll County
Baltimore City 1 Harford County
Anne Arundel 0 Harford County
Baltimore County 0 Harford County
Carroll County 0 Harford County
Howard County 0 Harford County
Baltimore City 3 Howard County
Anne Arundel 1 Howard County
Baltimore County 1 Howard County
Carroll County 0 Howard County
Harford County 0 Howard County
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