Hello Jaema,

Did you look at the actual study? I was interested enough by your question to take a look myself: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/assets/pdf/about/fels-report.pdf

Apparently they collected home values from the Philadelphia Department of Records and Board of Revision of Taxes. Since you are in Oakland County, you could aggregate this information from the Register of Deeds office yourself. (They charge you for documents, and all that is recorded is the mortgage amount, which may be less than the homes' values.) An easier and more cost effective option would be to look at Trulia.com and Zillow.com to see estimated values of homes on a map. If your library is friendly with anybody that is a realtor, they could pull real estate comps from the surrounding homes to give you more precise data.

Best of luck,

Steven

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 11:32 AM Jaema Berman via Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,
As part of promoting the idea of a new location for our library in Addison Twp., I am researching the relationship of housing values as they relate to proximity to a public library. Would anyone know a source for this data. I have found an article on the ALA website as regards to Philadelphia, but alas, that seems like a bit of a stretch.

Best always,
Jaema

Jaema Berman
Library Director
Addison Twp. Public Library
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