Alex Alsup – Land Parcel Data with Regrid

Introduction to Assessment Matters podcast 00:00Alex’s bio and big ideas 00:35Alex’s experience in parcel mapping, data collection, and tackling the Detroit property tax foreclosure crisisHow does land use and land taxation make housing so unaffordable in the US?What caused the Detroit property tax foreclosure crisis? 5:13Lack of consistent reassessmentDifficult to navigate bureaucratic poverty relief programsDifferences in homeowner vs renter experiencesPerverse incentives featuring speculative and delinquent landlordsWhat does the process look like to collect parcel data? 8:44Maximizing freshness, coverage, and depth of parcel dataIncremental progress over a decade with regular updatesData sourcesWhat Regrid did differently from past parcel data collection 12:01Specific focus on parcel boundaries and shapesBroadening access to historically obscure and idiosyncratic knowledgeCurrent R&D projects and interests: the Detroit Assessment Gauge 13:31comparing assessed values to US Census tractHelping improve transparency and public trustProviding the public with the technical language for assessmentsHow to see more of Regrid 17:42Regrid's websitePromoting data access via Data With Purpose: