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InforWorks: Neighborhhod Profiles


  
Produced as part of the Leadership Memphis Class of 2010 curriculum, these profiles provide a quick snapshot of each neighborhood's identifiable geography, assets, demographic trends, school performance, housing condition, crime trends and social issues. These profiles will serve as a baseline for our upcoming online information service, InfoWorks Memphis.


Neighborhhod-by-Neighbor: Summary of Findings
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A summary of residential property condition in Memphis,Tennessee using data collected from February 2008 through January 2010. Produced by CBANA at The University of Memphis in partnership with the Problem Properties Collaborative, Blue Crush, and The City of Memphis, 2010.

By Tk Buchanan, Dr. Phyllis G. Betts, Jackson Gilman, and Robert Brimhall.


Housing and Neighborhoods Baseline Analysis: Strategic Planning for Community Development In Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee
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Following a series of focused discussions with community development stakeholders in Memphis, the Greater Memphis Partnership (the Assisi Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, the City Division of Housing and Community Development and the Neighborhood Redevelopment Steering Committee/Community Development Council) selected EDAW Associates to work with the Partnership to develop a strategic plan to guide community development in Shelby County for at least the next four years. The Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action (CBANA) prepared this baseline analysis for use by EDAW and the Partnership, 2008.

By Dr. Phyllis Betts with assistance from Carol Gothe, Adam Foster, and Tk Buchanan.


Appendix for: Housing and Neighborhoods Baseline Analysis, Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee 115 mb > Please right click and choose "Save Target As" to save to local disk.

  
Complete appendix with tables and maps to accompany Housing and Neighborhoods Baseline Analysis: Strategic Planning for Community Development In Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee. 2008.

Prepared by the Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action (CBANA).



It Takes a Village: A Working Report on Community and Neighborhood Assets and Indicators for Early Childhood Well-Being and School Readiness in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee
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Developed in collaboration with the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership of The Urban Institute and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. CBANA (Phyllis Betts, Director) is the Memphis NNIP School Readiness and Early Grade Success Cross-site Initiative affiliate. In partnership with: the Center for Urban Child Policy at the University of Memphis, The Urban Child Institute, and the Shelby County Office for Early Childhood and Youth, 2008.

By Dr. Phyllis Betts.


Fixing Broken Windows — Strategies to Strengthen Housing Code Enforcement and Related Approaches to Community-Based Crime Prevention in Memphis
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This systematic study of code enforcement policies and procedures was produced with cooperation from the City of Memphis and the Office of Code Enforcement. A Publication of the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission, 2001.

By Dr. Phyllis Betts, with assistance from Tk Buchanan and Bonnie Binkley.