Created by Dominic Strezo, Ryan Eckdale-Dudley and Jason Cleaver, the South Suburbs Housing Investment Tool analyzes more than 30 variables for each property that are used to rank redevelopment projects. The Illinois Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to adopt the model and use it as a template for other communities around the state with similar project scoring systems.

1. Be it known that the judges and sponsors of the
Illinois Open Technology Challenge
on this date
June 24, 2013
have awarded the efforts of
Dominic Strezo, Ryan Eckdale-Dudley, Jason Cleaver,
South Suburban Housing Investment Tool
for creating a tool that allows the people of the South Suburban Mayors and Managers
Association to geographically analyze, score, and rank projects.
We therefore confer the monetary prize of $15,000 to further the exploration and
development of this tool and to further the mission of the Illinois Open Technology Challenge
to bring governments, developers and communities together in a common mission to use data
to make lives better in Illinois.