Providing rapid-response data to neighborhood leaders to drive neighborhood-specific interventions to address housing instability during the pandemic

The Foundation's Data for Healthy Communities initiative was designed to create the conditions in communities that allow all residents to reach their best possible health and well-being by: (1) strengthening the evidence base for how conditions of place impact health; (2) extending the use of data and evidence throughout the decision-making process, including policy; (3) using data collection and analysis to bring communities closer together by building the capacity of places to use data, develop leaders, and genuinely engage their community; and (4) developing norms, behaviors, and formal rules of interaction related to how data are communicated and used to address problems and initiate change in underserved communities.This funding will provide rapid-response data to neighborhood leaders to drive neighborhood-specific interventions that will address housing instability, formal and informal evictions, and other housing concerns in select neighborhoods in Memphis, TN. The project will incorporate data creation and use into local problem-solving, focusing on challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will provide insights into "data to action" processes that are central to Data for Healthy Communities. Deliverables will include: (1) a report on recommendations for identifying gaps and opportunities to build out policy responses to crises related to housing stability; and (2) an interactive map series with real-time eviction data and survey responses aggregated at neighborhood level.