Vacancy Explorer
Tool for triaging and tracking vacant properties for litigation
Secure view for legal team
Created for the Vacancy Collaborative of St. Louis and Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, this tool compiles data from multiple city sources to create a color-coded, interactive map of the city's vacant properties.
- Scores and dynamically builds burden index for each property
- Intelligently identifies multiple-property owners
- Creates map layers for building types, business status, and owner location
- Includes both public and private versions
- Administrative console for managing secure access to case information
- Built-in Google street view of properties
- Dynamic, radius-based comparison to other properties based on crime, citizen complaints, and property valuation
- Auto-generation of legal petition text based on building code violations
- Listings of properties by neighborhood
Public view
Technical Points
- Built as single-page web app in Javascript/HTML/CSS with cloud functions programmed in Node.js
- Automated data collection pipeline and data processing to drive experience
- Uses Mapbox framework and custom-generated tilesets for smooth, responsive map experience
- Google Firebase suite used for database and authentication
- Imports cases directly from Legal Server via API
- Dynamic integration with Neighborhood Map