Low Income Housing

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Low Income Housing Single Moms

• UT Arlington Library
• GIS Workshop

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Mock ScenarioWeruta Foundation Funding

• Low-Income Multifamily Units
• Focus on Single Mothers

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Our Strategy??
Use Geographic Information Systems
Integrate Spatial Component
ArcGIS 9 (ESRI)
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Focus Area
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But Where to Get the Data?

• GIS is just a tool.
• Contains no Data!

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Data Sources

• U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
• U.S. Census Bureau
• Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs
• 2-1-1 Texas (United Way)
• Applied Geographic Solutions Datasets

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So, How Does GIS Work?

• Overlaying Referenced Data
• Query and Analyze Geographic Distribution
• Relate Datasets Based on Geographic Intersect

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Suitability Analysis

• Steps
• Rasterize (pixelize) values
• Reclassify all variables on a 1-10 scale
• Perform weighted average

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Pop In That CD!!

• Install Datasets to C/ Drive (default)