Tenant Power

Monorepo for Tenant Power application, no longer under development but maintained for archival purposes. Superceded by who-owns-mass-frontend from mit-spatial-action.

The tool operationalized an entity resolution workflow using the dedupe Python library. that deduplicated landlords based on listed names and addresses. For anyone who's curious this is essentially the method used by Immergluck et al. 2020.

Repo Contents

• app: Frontend. Svelte/SvelteKit Typescript application. Originally written in vanilla HTML/JS/CSS.

• backend: Backend. FastAPI (Python) application built on top of a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database. Originally written in Express.

• pipelines: Data pipelines including trained dedupe model.

  ⚠️ Dead code alert! ⚠️ No attempt has been made to resuscitate pipelines for archiving.

References

Immergluck, Dan, Jeff Ernsthausen, Stephanie Earl, and Allison Powell. 2020. “Evictions, Large Owners, and Serial Filings: Findings from Atlanta.” Housing Studies 35 (5): 903–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2019.1639635.