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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.

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GIS and Housing: Principles and Practices discusses one of the challenges that has not been addressed by Geographic Information Science thus far: how can we use GIS to deal with the complex issues underlying the housing crisis? This book provides GIS technicians and analysts with an overview of US housing challenges and examples of how to effectively integrate spatial thinking to address housing policy questions, while simultaneously introducing housing policy analysts to advanced GIS concepts and techniques to create livable neighborhoods that include housing alternatives beyond the single family. Through numerous examples, the authors advocate for a collaborative approach that encourages professionals, policymakers, and analysts, across different ideological and political perspectives, to confront the multifaceted housing crisis.

Features:

• Examines the historical aspects of housing provision, societal attitudes, demographic shifts, and government policies


• Bridges the gaps between housing professionals and GIS experts, facilitating an interdisciplinary approach to address the housing crisis


• Explores different challenges that are facing urban, suburban, and rural neighborhoods in different US regions


• Provides professionals with the necessary tools for informed decision-making


• Proposes solutions that leverage the integrative capacity of GIS to address established housing issues.


• Advocates for denser housing alternatives to address issues of affordability, supply shortages, and homelessness

This book is intended for graduate students and professionals in housing, community development, urban planning, architecture, and GIS, and anyone curious about learning more about the American housing crisis.

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

In development, all markets are local. Other words, know and understand the location before undertaking development. If you don?t 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 (who?s there; explaining population and its attributes). Developers need that information.

Scott Lefaver

Owner/Managing Member, Cabouchon Properties, LLC

This book explores both the evolution and current state of housing issues, such as availability and affordability and offers important guidance on why an understanding of spatial relationships is vital when developing strategies for mitigating these concerns.   The authors explore the capabilities of geographic information systems (GIS) concepts, tools, and methods and how they can be leveraged to manage, analyze, visualize, and communicate actionable knowledge that supports decision making and policies related to housing.  This book is a valuable resource for housing researchers, analysts, and policymakers.

Kevin Mickey

Director, Professional Development and Geospatial Technologies Education, The Polis Center

The authors supply a critical missing angle in America?s fractious national and local debates about housing: visual data. Through detailed graphs and charts interspersed with historical photos and maps, they elegantly capture historic changes in how we live, where we live, who we live with, in how much space, and how much it costs -- and also explain how we may use this information to decide how to live in the future.

Nicole Gelinas

Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

GIS and Housing is a highly-readable, solutions-oriented book that uses a geo-spatial lens to grapple with the connections between US housing crises and broader socio-economic trends. Further, it encourages the use of GIS as a tool for housing data analysis and meaningful community engagement in policy development and implementation

Oksana Mironova

Senior Policy Analyst, Community Service Society of New York

Tartalomjegyzék:

1. Why Geography Matters in Housing  2. Social, Demographic, and Technological Shifts and Their Impacts on Housing  3. Contemporary Design Adaptations and Policy Interventions  4. Data for Housing Research  5. GIS Analysis and Visualization  6. Directions for Future Research  7. Conclusions