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Monthly rental listings around the Obama Presidential Center, January 2020 through December 2025.
Cleaned 9,612-listing panel sourced from Zillow Research's public ZORI release, City of Chicago Rental Registry public data, and Craigslist scrapes governed by their robots.txt. The cleaned panel is in preparation. Until then, the upstream sources below produce the same raw data the paper draws on.
Zillow ZORI values redistribute under Zillow Research's public terms. Craigslist listings are de-identified beyond header fields.
The cleaned Rooted Forward replication archive for this paper is in preparation. Until it is released, every record below traces to a public upstream source. These are the same files we draw on, hosted by their primary publishers.
Zillow Research data portal (ZORI rent index)
Tract-level rent index downloads.
https://www.zillow.com/research/data/
Chicago Data Portal · Rental Registry
Search 'rental registry' for the active dataset.
https://data.cityofchicago.org/
Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul
Independent South Side rent indicators for cross-validation.
https://www.housingstudies.org/data-portal/
Files in the archive
opc-rent-panel-2020-2025.csv
9,612 listings with monthly observations, six years.
opc-impact-zone-tracts.geojson
Eleven-tract half-mile-ring boundary.
opc-did-analysis.R
Difference-in-differences specification.
opc-synthetic-control.R
Synthetic-control robustness.
License
Data CC BY 4.0, code MIT.
Provenance
The columns and types you can expect once the archive is live. Sample rows are intentionally omitted; we publish only verified records, not synthetic placeholders.
Schema · 5 columns · no sample rows
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| listing_id | text | Anonymized listing identifier |
| month | date | First of month |
| in_ring | boolean | Within the half-mile impact zone |
| bedrooms | int | |
| asking_rent_usd | numeric |
| Posted asking rent, US dollars |