Slumlords

Post date: Aug 19, 2016 10:20:22 AM

DESCRIPTION: “A client of [orgnet] -- a small, not-for-profit, economic justice organization [EJO] -- used social network analysis [SNA] to assist their city attorney in convicting a group of "slumlords" of various housing violations that the real estate investors had been side-stepping for years. The housing violations, in multiple buildings, included raw sewage leaks, multiple tenant children with high lead levels, eviction of complaining tenants, utility liens of six figures.

DATA FORMAT: UCINET, .csv

DATA: Set of matrices of ties between real estate agents, businesses, persons, and properties, corresponding to the step-by-step analysis described here http://www.orgnet.com/slumlords.html

1-mode matrix 5x5 real estate transactions

2-mode matrix 11x5 owners by properties

1-mode matrix 11x11 person by person, relations are common ownership of properties

1-mode matrix 11x11 person by person, relations are family ties

1-mode matrix 13x13 person by person, relations are family ties

2-mode matrix 13x9 person by business and properties, relations are business affiliations/ownership

1 mode matrix 9x9 business/property by business/property, relations are having affiliated persons/owners in common

SOURCE/AVAILABILITY: Available at http://www.orgnet.com/slumlords.html and reconstructed at Manchester.

KEYWORDS: Financial crime, fraud, social welfare