Many municipalities utilize various reporting methods to address blight. Now in Baltimore, one housing advocate who also happens to be a systems and software engineer, seeing the need for better data created a new app called “Fight Blight Bmore”.
The app “identifies, reports, tracks, and analyzes blighted properties throughout the city.”
“The goal is for residents and communities to use the app for mapping blight in their neighborhoods, as well as track if those issues have been addressed. The data gathered is meant to support advocacy”
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