Improving Kids' Environment is a partner in the Citizen's Healthy Homes Initiative with the Concerned Clergy and the Citizen's Multi-Service Center.  As a partner, IKE wrote a Needs Assessment for the Kennedy-King Park Neighborhood on Indianapolis' Near Northeast Side.  The Needs Assessment was published on August 23, 2003. Back to Main Report

Indianapolis Citizen’s Healthy Homes Initiative

Kennedy-King Park Neighborhood Needs Assessment

Finding #5

54% of homes had more than one obvious code violations likely to cause homes to be abandoned

Using the rating system described above, CHHI found that 54% of the homes two or more serious code violations.  See Figure 4.  This combination makes it likely that the home is not only going to have hazards to residents, but the combination makes it more likely that the home will be abandoned.  The problem is most serious on Broadway, Cornell and Bundy streets.