SAVI

The Polis Center and its SAVI team recently released Indianapolis's full Racial Equity Report Card.

Racial disparities persist across many sectors in Indianapolis, according to a newly released data snapshot of the city’s 2024 Racial Equity Report Card.

A new report card from SAVI at the Polis Center at IUPUI seeks to grade Indianapolis on racial equity measures. WFYIs Jill Sheridan spoke with SAVI research data analyst Aaron Olson about how this project differs from past efforts and how community members can get involved.

Legal experts say a new report on evictions in Indianapolis underscores the lack of protection for tenants. Researchers from Indianapolis-based community data center SAVI, found that properties with more health department complaints also had higher eviction rates.

A report, produced by the Indianapolis-based community data center SAVI, found that between January and June of 2022 roughly two-thirds of evictions came from large apartment complexes.

Staff at the Martin Luther King Community Center are concerned about calls to the police on Black teens using the center's facilities.

Newly released data found racial disparities in Indianapolis’s criminal justice system, creating a cradle to prison pipeline.

People with higher education levels tend to live longer, healthier lives. But some African American kids in low-income communities are faced with many barriers that keep them from receiving the education they need. But one man at a majority black neighborhood in Indianapolis hopes football can help keep kids in school and out of trouble.

The gap in life expectancy between different zip codes in the Indianapolis metro area is nearly 17 years, according to a new study by Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public health and SAVI, a community data center based at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

Food deserts exist across Indiana -- from large swaths of Gary to parts of Posey, Greene and Crawford counties farther south. And a new study from SAVI at IUPUI shows that more than a quarter of Black Hoosiers live in food deserts -- low-income areas without easy access to a supermarket.