Students in ENV 359 collaborated with the staff of the Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative to provide estimates of the total number of workers cottages in the City of Chicago. Workers cottages have historical architectural significance and also continue to provide a base of more affordable housing stock. Workers cottages are often torn down in neighborhoods undergoing gentrification. The teardowns provide a way to build larger and more expensive housing stock. The initiative has done visual surveys of several neighborhoods to do censuses of workers cottages. Students combined the census data with property tax information to use machine learning techniques which estimated the total amount workers cottages in the city of Chicago. The students produced R notebooks that explained their code and also recorded online presentations which were provided to the community partner.
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