By National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Committee on Geography, Committee on Review of Geographic Information Systems Research and Applications at HUD: Current Programs and Future Prospects
The document describes strength functions of geographic details structures (GIS) and spatial research by way of HUD’s workplace of coverage improvement and examine for realizing housing wishes, addressing broader problems with city poverty and group improvement, and bettering entry to details and companies by means of the various clients of HUD’s information. It bargains a imaginative and prescient of HUD as a tremendous participant in offering city information to federal tasks in the direction of a spatial information infrastructure for the country.
Read Online or Download GIS for Housing and Urban Development PDF
Similar city planning & urban development books
Holding Their Ground: Secure Land Tenure for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries
Protection of land tenure for the city negative is speedy changing into one of many significant difficulties for constructing towns in Africa, Asia and Latin the United States. in keeping with large study this e-book offers and analyses the most conclusions of a comparative learn application on land tenure concerns. in response to broad case reviews, it offers a comparative viewpoint of land tenure at a world point.
The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000
Within the final 20 years, city facilities world wide have skilled huge, immense booms and busts as real-estate builders, monetary associations, and public officers first poured assets into actual redevelopment, then watched because the industry collapsed prior to booming back within the Nineties. during this broadly revised version of her extremely popular town developers, Susan Fainstein examines significant redevelopment efforts in long island and London to discover the forces in the back of those funding cycles and the function that public coverage can play in moderating industry instability.
United States Taxes and Tax Policy
Usa Taxes and Tax coverage supplementations and enhances the theoretical fabric on taxes present in public finance texts utilizing a mixture of institutional, theoretical and empirical info. via including flesh to theoretical bones, this textbook presents perception into the behaviour of people in either the non-public and public sectors.
Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction
First rising in the beginning of the 20 th century, architectural reconstruction has more and more develop into an device to visually revive a protracted bygone earlier. This ebook offers with the phenomenon of meticulous reconstruction in structure. It argues that the politics of reconstruction cross a long way past aesthetic issues.
Additional info for GIS for Housing and Urban Development
Sample text
All federal agencies are required to work with the FGDC. 5 The concept of a framework and a clearinghouse ensure that data now being developed are made available to many users. The National Geospatial Data Framework is designed to be a collaborative effort. 1). The framework data represent the best available data that are certified, standardized, and described according to a common standard. They provide a foundation on which organizations can build by adding their own data. 6 The appropriateness of the various spatial data can then be determined from their metadata descriptions, which are required for all datasets included in the Clearinghouse.
5 • American Housing Survey: provision of national and metropolitan estimates of housing conditions and zoned data. • Policy Development: research leading to improved policy in support of mission goals. • Research and Evaluation: post-program evaluation for fair housing programs, assistance programs, and mortgage market assessments; and mapping of racial and economic segregation, and mapping. S. Bureau of the Census; Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac home mortgage data collections; and the State of the Cities Report6 from which HUD creates value-added products on employment, education, and other indicators of urban quality-of-life.
Cost is generally higher with higher data quality. Unfortunately, data error is impossible to entirely eliminate, and it will always exist. Therefore, it is important for an organization to maintain a balance between cost and quality. The objective in this case is to “manage” rather than try to eliminate the error by acknowledging some degree of uncertainty through various statistical means (Aronoff, 1989). The above synopsis of the 13 datasets shows that there are rich sources of data that can be utilized for housing research; however, it reveals three issues.