{"id":77802,"date":"2019-02-01T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&#038;p=77802"},"modified":"2022-08-24T13:37:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:37:55","slug":"enterprise-gis-helps-the-federal-government-compile-share-housing-data","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/enterprise-gis-helps-the-federal-government-compile-share-housing-data","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise GIS Helps the Federal Government Compile, Share Housing Data"},"author":1312,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10432,1041,1561],"tags":[921,341,158002,271,1281],"arcnews_issues":[47032],"class_list":["post-77802","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcgis-enterprise","category-collaboration","category-economic-development","tag-disaster-response","tag-economic-development","tag-hud","tag-mapping","tag-visualization","arcnews_issues-fall-2017","arcnews_sections-your-work"],"acf":{"short_description":"The US Department of Housing and Urban Development built a GIS web app to make its project information easily accessible.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has a mission to build durable, inclusive communities and provide quality homes for low-income families and individuals. In pursuit of these objectives, HUD collaborates with communities across the United States to establish job-generating economic development projects.\r\n\r\nTo meet high demand for information about these projects and make its data easily accessible, HUD works with Esri partner VSolvit to develop and maintain an enterprise GIS (eGIS). Building on the data it houses in ArcGIS Server, HUD can easily manage this data, generate intelligent maps, and create interactive web apps and dashboards.\r\n\r\nMembers of Congress often request reports from HUD to see how the department\u2019s money flows through their districts and to check up on local HUD projects. Recently, HUD launched the Community Assessment Reporting Tool (CART) to answer the frequently asked question, How is HUD investing in my community? Using any device, representatives\u2019 staff members can simply go to CART, type the name of a location into the GIS web app, and see the housing funds allotted to that community, the dollars spent on rental assistance, information on mortgage insurance programs and other insurance-related data, community development blocks, poverty levels, and more.\r\n<h2>From Hours, Days, or Weeks to Now<\/h2>\r\nBefore HUD launched CART, the department\u2019s staff spent many tedious hours manually creating reports. If a member of Congress asked to see entitlements in his or her district, a HUD field analyst would begin the process by asking local communities\u2019 planning and development offices for data on area HUD investments. Then, the analyst would pull up two additional data layers\u2014one that showed the area of the entitlement jurisdiction and another that showed the congressional district\u2014on a map to see where the two intersected. The analyst would populate that area with the entitlement data and, finally, send the map to the requester. This process usually took hours or days\u2014and sometimes even weeks."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":77822,"image_position":"left-center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Now, CART does all the work. Built with ArcGIS API for JavaScript, it automatically compiles the agency\u2019s program investments at five geographic levels: city, county, state, metropolitan statistical area (MSA), and congressional district. Drawing on the most recent data, the CART web app displays the information in a dashboard with a map, a chart, and a table. Users can jump from tab to tab to view the different ways HUD invests in a community.\r\n\r\nAnd CART isn\u2019t only a tool for congressional staff. It is public facing as well, accessible via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com\/\">HUD\u2019s eGIS Storefront<\/a>, a portal that makes the agency\u2019s authoritative datasets available and easy to find and that also houses all the department\u2019s external and internal apps.\r\n\r\nCitizens can use CART to see how much funding is available for projects in their neighborhoods, find out the occupancy of a specific public housing project, discover which HUD funds are available to their communities, and look up HUD investments based on congressional district. With access to this information, citizens can better engage with their representatives on matters that concern them and their neighborhoods.\r\n\r\nWhat\u2019s more, CART is available to each of HUD\u2019s 18 program offices and 64 field and regional offices. This enables staff at any location to access HUD\u2019s eGIS information and answer questions for stakeholders on behalf of the agency.\r\n<h2>Consistent Data, Future Development<\/h2>\r\nCART takes data from different sources, people, and agencies, such as the US Census Bureau, the American Community Survey, nongovernmental organizations, federal employees, and contractors. It also draws data from HUD\u2019s internal systems, such as the Inventory Management System, the Tenant Rental Assistance Certification System, and the Homelessness Data Exchange. Data providers update their contributed data quarterly, annually, or simply as needed.\r\n\r\nThe eGIS program team conditions this varying administrative data by geocoding it with time and space features. To ensure that map outputs and reports are consistent, all data must comply with HUD\u2019s standards. These requirements ensure that the data in CART is accessible and compatible with other data so that users can generate accurate analyses.\r\n\r\nTo make CART even more useful, the team is exploring new avenues for the app, such as how to summarize and visualize HUD program data for other geographic levels. Adding American Indian and Alaska Native jurisdictions, for example, would help people understand how HUD is investing in tribal communities.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, in giving demonstrations of CART to congressional staff, HUD employees have had the opportunity to think more broadly about how other enterprise-wide GIS apps could benefit the agency and its constituents. One possibility is disaster support. After a natural disaster such as a flood, various agencies and people want to know what HUD investments are in the affected area and which assets were damaged. Disaster recovery managers, for example, could use the analysis capabilities of eGIS to answer these basic questions, inform decision-makers about the situation, and help victims get back on their feet.\r\n<h2>Satisfying Stakeholders and Meeting Citizens\u2019 Needs<\/h2>\r\nWith CART, HUD can deliver better intelligence to all stakeholders and manage its funding more efficiently. HUD is now meeting Congress\u2019s need for information in an easy-to-understand format that is useful for allocating housing allowances, evaluating community needs, and communicating with citizens."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Enterprise GIS Helps the Federal Government Compile, Share Housing Data | ArcNews | Fall 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The US Department of Housing and Urban Development built a GIS web app to make its project information easily accessible.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/enterprise-gis-helps-the-federal-government-compile-share-housing-data\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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