2. Online Data and Mapping Platform
• Contains over 15,000 geographic indicators
• Sources are both public and proprietary as well
user uploads
• Continually updated by a team of data analysts at
TRF
• Made available through the online tool
www.policymap.com; through a Data API and
through “widgets”
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3. Data
Demographics • Education • Incomes •
Unemployment Rates • Jobs • Wages • Political
Boundaries • Crime • School Districts • School
Performance • Vacancy • Home Sales • Housing
Burdens • Mortgages • Housing Investments • Tax
Returns • Transit Access • Food Access • Obesity •
Uninsured Populations • Government Designations •
www.policymap.com/our-data.html
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4. Data
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Data is:
• Public - Census, ACS, FBI, IRS, HMDA, BLS, CDC,
USDA, HUD…
• Proprietary- home sale, school performance and
transit data
• Secure – data loaded by users (generally
organizational or local data)
• Available for the nation at smallest geography
possible, preferably block group or census tract or
address.
5. PolicyMap
• We built PolicyMap first as a tool to help TRF and
its own clients better understand their own
markets.
• We opened it up to the public and created a self-
sustaining business model for the online tool that
allows users to access part of what is available for
free and additional data/tools with a subscription.
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6. Who Uses PolicyMap?
• Financial institutions (CDFIs and Banks)
• Federal agencies such as the Federal Reserve, HUD and
the EDA
• State Housing Finance Agencies
• Local governments – particularly housing agencies
• Community development organizations (and the
foundations that support them)
• Real estate industry
• Universities/students
• Consultants
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7. Why do they use PolicyMap?
• Visualize where they have made investments or
loans or grants; understand what those markets
look like and how they are changing.
• Strategically think about where they need to make
investments in the future based on market
conditions, need or government program
requirements.
• Obtain data for reporting or grant application
requirements.
• General neighborhood research.
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8. Why Relevant for Today’s Discussion?
• PolicyMap could be an additional data resource for
showing other potential partners/resources in a
geographic area:
Government designations like CRA or NMTC eligibility
could mean partnerships with financial institutions;
Government designations like CDBG eligible tracts or
high NSP3 scores could mean available local
government dollars for housing;
Health resources such as retail based health clinics;
Neighborhood anchors such as schools, libraries, non-
profit organizations.
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