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Kevin Potthast

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Amongst the ongoing economic decline of the Northend of Lafayette, Indiana, the community has faced many challenges: neighborhood retention, housing deterioration, and safety concerns. These issues pose a threat to the community well-being, as well as the livability factor - referring to the "environmental chances" of life (Veenhoven, 1999). This can be tied to the housing conditions in said environment. To evaluate the extent to which living conditions affect the quality-of-life in the Northend, the team conducted property condition surveys recording the housing conditions of the Hanna neighborhood - one of the many neighborhoods in the Northend. In this assessment, randomly-selected residential buildings in the neighborhood were examined based on criteria covering both the structural and property conditions, judged on a qualitative grading scale. Additionally, the team graded each street within the neighborhood on the quality of its public right-of-way. The thirteen criteria used here are also measured on a similar qualitative scale as the residential buildings. The data collected in this survey on the Hanna neighborhood will be analyzed to determine how the factors of livability regarding housing conditions affect the community well-being of the Hanna neighborhood. Furthermore, the data found in this study can be compared to similar livability studies previously conducted in other Northend neighborhoods. The combined results will allow the team to better understand the well-being of the entire Lafayette Northend community and provide community partners - the City of Lafayette and the Faith Community Development Corporation - further insights to make data-driven decisions regarding their neighborhood revitalization efforts.

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Purdue University / 2023

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Kevin Potthast