GIS and Housing: Principles and Practices [Paperback]

GIS and Housing: Principles and Practices discusses how?GIS can enhance our understanding of complex housing issues in the United States and explains housing data analysis and the technical aspects of GIS management and functionality. Further, it explains how to integrate spatial thinking to address housing policy questions.

Silos keep advocates, philanthropy, and government from pursuing housing and development policies that meet the needs of historically disadvantaged communities in Black and Latinx neighborhoods. GIS for Housing offers advocates and policy makers a spatial analysis framework to guide the development of a just and equitable city for all.

Maria Cabildo

Director, Housing and Economic Opportunity, California Community Foundation

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In development, all markets are local. Other words, know and understand the location before undertaking development. If you dont understand location, money will be lost. Location is geographic. The authors of GIS and Housing explain the importance of geographic data related to location. Geographic data is not only physical, (what physically is at that location and surrounding areas) but cultural (whos there; explaining population and its attributes). Developers need that information.

Scott Lefaver