Blight Expansion Vector Analysis

Urban decay does not spread uniformly. This dataset maps the directional relationship between Shreveport's established Low-Low assessor value cluster mass — the geographic core of concentrated low-value, low-investment properties — and each of the 1,741 parcels currently carrying an active legal notice but not yet formally adjudicated.

For each pre-adjudication parcel, the dataset records its bearing and distance from the LL cluster centroid, an urgency score combining elapsed legal notice time, LISA spatial quadrant, and cumulative violation count, and an escalation velocity derived from the observed rate of inspection stage progression. Parcels burning through escalation stages quickly at close range to the LL core represent the highest near-term acquisition and intervention risk.

The bearing distribution is not uniform: 85% of pre-adjudication parcels lie to the south-southeast of the LL cluster centroid, tracing an active expansion corridor that aligns with the city's documented pattern of southward decay diffusion. This directional signal is not available from individual parcel records — it emerges only from the spatial relationship between the cluster mass and the pipeline.