Sponsor: Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Recovery Programs
The ARPA Impact Indicator StoryMaps, are an interactive resource designed to provide residents with insights into the impact of the $641 million American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds allocated to Baltimore City. The tool offers a view of Baltimore’s conditions at the neighborhood level prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a series of StoryMaps, residents can explore indicators such as vacancy trends, housing affordability, home rehabilitation, employment levels, the digital divide, and capital investments.
Sponsor: The National Science Foundation
This multi-university project will create novel methods, answer open empirical questions and provide research-based guidelines for the design, development, deployment and evaluation of a privacy-respectful toolkit to identify and characterize the multi-factorial challenges typical of complex trips often times endured by low-income residents in Baltimore City; and to drive bottom-up, crowdsourced-informed actionable solutions via community conversations and a decision support system. This research is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1951924 to the University of Maryland