Connections for the Homeless

I joined the advocacy team of Connections for the Homeless in the Summer 2022 as a Data and Visualization intern.

I focused the socio-demographic conditions of Evanston and all the northern suburbs of the Cook County. This helped me project and visualize how ethnicity and race intersect with homelessness. With the help of Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) data, I could visualize that household income of white residents is exponentially greater than any other race.

Using the same sources of data, I could visualize that renters in Evanston who are earning $34,999 or less are facing an extreme housing cost burden which in effect means that they are spending more than 50% of their income on the rent payment of the residential unit they are living in. Moreover, further analysis showed that as income increases the likelihood of facing a housing cost burdens decreases exponentially.