Introduction to Neighborhood Stabilization

Neighborhood Stabilization can be used to understand current property conditions, return blighted properties to productive use, and engage the public in neighborhood stabilization conversations.

It provides neighborhood stabilization program managers the ability to develop strategies that assist in the rehabilitation of properties that might otherwise become sources of abandonment and blight. The result can be used to rehabilitate, resell, or redevelop properties in order to stabilize neighborhoods and help to curtail the decline of property values in neighborhoods. Neighborhood Stabilization is typically implemented by planning departments, building officials, health and human services agencies, and other local government agencies that want to develop a location-driven approach to neighborhood stabilization.

The Neighborhood Stabilization solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you conduct property surveys, measure the fragility of neighborhoods, track blight, demolition activity, and publish a focused set of information products for citizens in your community.

Deploy the solution

This ArcGIS solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Neighborhood Stabilization requires the following:

  • ArcGIS Online
  • ArcGIS Pro 2.6 - 2.9 (Standard or Advanced)

Information products

Neighborhood Stabilization includes the following information products:

ItemDescriptionMinimum user type

Neighborhood Stabilization

An ArcGIS Hub site used by the general public to access blight complaints, track demolition activity, locate mortgage or housing counselors, and conduct property surveys

Not required

Blight Status Dashboard

An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by local government leaders to proactively monitor the status of blight complaints and efforts made to reduce blighted properties

Viewer

Demolition Tracker

An ArcGIS Instant Apps app used by the general public to track building demolitions and the financial cost to a community

Note:
This app is configured to use the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service to find addresses. This capability consumes credits.

Not required

Mortgage Counseling Locator

An ArcGIS Instant Apps app used by the general public to locate mortgage or housing counselors in a community

Note:
This app is configured to use the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service to find addresses. This capability consumes credits.

Not required

Tax Liability Calculator

An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by citizens to compute their estimated tax liability

Not required

Property Condition Survey

A Photo Survey app used by local governments to publish street-level photo collections, conduct property surveys, and automate the classification of property condition using ML/AI

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Neighborhood Early Warning

An ArcGIS Pro project used by data analysts to identify neighborhoods trending in a positive, or negative, direction and ultimately measure the fragility of neighborhoods over time

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When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get an ArcGIS solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The ArcGIS solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

VersionDescription
2.0 (Nov 2023)
  • A new Demolition Tracker app using the Nearby Instant Apps.
  • A new Mortgage Counseling Locator using the Nearby Instant Apps.
  • A new Neighborhood StabilizationArcGIS Hub site with updated indicators.
  • A new Blight Status Dashboard with indicators to color vision deficiency colors and accessible name for each element.
  • Fixed Tax Liability Calculator survey missing TaxLiabilityCalculator feature layer and TaxLiabilityCalculator_public hosted feature layer.
  • New maps with updated basemaps and symbology.
  • A new MortgageCounselingFacilites feature layer and MortgageCounselingFacilities_public hosted feature layer with Operational Hours field.
  • A new DemolitionSites feature layer that resolves an issue that prevents data with null values in the Status field to be appended to the layer (BUG-000147811).
1.0 (Nov 2020)
  • First release of Neighborhood Stabilization