DataKind New America Housing Loss Analysis Tool

A Command Line Interface (CLI) that allows users to ingest eviction, foreclosure, and tax lien data and outputs statistical summaries and geolocation data.

Python CLI Usage Instructions

1. Ensure your data format is configured based on the required specification
   1. This Google Sheet presents the data requirements
   2. This Example Directory shows a populated version of the format with random addresses
2. Download Python 3.8.10 here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3810/ and follow the instructions to install Python
3. Navigate to the New America Housing Loss Tool here: https://github.com/datakind/new-america-housing-loss-public.git
4. Click Code and Download Zip to download the code
5. Unzip the zip file in the directory of your choice
6. Open a terminal or a command prompt and navigate to where the code was downloaded (note: this directory will end with new-america-housing-loss-public-main)
7. Change directory to the cli using the command cd cli
8. If you are running Windows, you will need to run the following commands to install dependencies:
   1. py -m pip install whl/GDAL-3.3.3-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl
   2. py -m pip install whl/Fiona-1.8.20-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl
9. Run the following commands to install dependencies:
   1. For Mac/Linux, run python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
   2. For Windows, run py -m pip install -r requirements.txt
10. Run the tool against your data:
    1. For Mac/Linux, run python load_data.py /path/to/input_data/
    2. For Windows, run py load_data.py C:\path\to\input_data\
11. The output will be available one level up from your data directory in a folder called output_data
    1. The analysis_plots directory contains time series and correlation analysis of your content
    2. The data_summaries directory contains a summary of evictions/foreclosures by geocode (enriched with American Community Survey (ACS) data)
    3. The full_datasets directory contains all eviction/foreclosure geocoded records
    4. The mapping_data directory contains a geopackage (.gpkg) file that can be examined using QGIS

Structure

• cli/ - code to run the DataKind New America Housing Loss Analysis Tool