{"id":1006582,"date":"2020-09-21T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1006582"},"modified":"2025-05-12T09:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:39:30","slug":"5-maps-you-and-your-team-should-see","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/5-maps-you-and-your-team-should-see","title":{"rendered":"Five maps you (and your team) should see"},"author":6461,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[588281,585551,268131,34821,646351],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-1006582","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-air-quality","tag-covid-19","tag-living-atlas","tag-policy-maps","tag-racial-equity","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"Esri Maps for Public Policy offers tools and maps to help tackle the world's biggest problems. Check out 5 maps that give us a look into how. ","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Maps communicate information more effectively than words ever could. In today\u2019s political and environmental climate, we look to spatial data<\/a> for answers and direction when facing issues like COVID-19 or racial inequity. But it can be challenging to find and share a custom set of maps without some GIS background. Luckily the Esri Maps for Public Policy site<\/a> makes this easy for anyone to do in a matter of minutes, covering a wide range of public policy and current day issues. The site offers access hundreds of layers, maps, and more to help tackle the biggest problems of 2020 (and onward).<\/p>\n

With so many maps and so little time, you might be wondering what are five maps that you (and probably your coworkers and family) should see to help during these challenging times?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Using the Esri Maps for Public Policy site, I created this collection of five maps<\/a> covering topics related to racial inequity, the COVID-19 pandemic, and air pollution. Enjoy the links and graphics below, or follow along by opening the link to the collection and finding your own area on each map.<\/p>\n

Where are there racial disparities in home ownership?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Racial inequity is a pressing issue that many governments and organizations are trying to combat. Systemic racism shows up in ways that may not have been considered. For example, this first map<\/a> containing U.S. Census Bureau<\/a> American Community Survey data<\/a> shows us that home ownership is not created equal. At a county-wide view, we can see that White householders<\/span><\/strong> generally have higher home ownership rates than Black householders<\/span><\/strong>. Patterns such as these help us better understand some of the ways that inequity impacts the Black population across the US.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1006592,"id":1006592,"title":"Homeownership","filename":"Homeownership.png","filesize":276143,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/5-maps-you-and-your-team-should-see\/homeownership","alt":"","author":"6461","description":"","caption":"","name":"homeownership","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1006582,"date":"2020-09-14 23:03:16","modified":"2020-09-14 23:03:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1009,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":244,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":404,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1009,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-1536x807.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":807,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1009,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-826x434.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":434,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1009}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

On a positive note, if you search for a city such as Philadelphia, you can see pockets of green circles, which have higher homeownership rates for Black householders. This may show where the paradigm is shifting in a more equitable direction, yet also highlights that we have a long way to go to reach true equity.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1006612,"id":1006612,"title":"Homeownership Philly","filename":"Homeownership-Philly.png","filesize":363335,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-Philly.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/5-maps-you-and-your-team-should-see\/homeownership-philly","alt":"","author":"6461","description":"","caption":"","name":"homeownership-philly","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1006582,"date":"2020-09-14 23:05:01","modified":"2020-09-14 23:05:01","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1009,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-Philly-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-Philly.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":244,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-Philly.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":404,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-Philly.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1009,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-Philly-1536x807.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":807,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-Philly.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1009,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-Philly-826x434.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":434,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Homeownership-Philly.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1009}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/webmap\/viewer.html?webmap=f0866cb108a7404dad035bb27cf8fe2d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Try searching for your city in the search bar of the collection<\/a> to see how the pattern of homeownership looks in your area.<\/p>\n

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Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) Neighborhood Redlining Grade<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Another way to understand systemic racism is to look at the past. How have historical decisions and patterns created the unequal opportunities we see today? In the 1930s, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) was created in the New Deal Era and trained many home appraisers. The HOLC created a neighborhood ranking system infamously known today as redlining. Zoom in to one of the 143 cities shown in this map<\/a> to better understand how these policies created division and discrimination. This tragic reality of the past has engraved spatial and social patterns that we still see today in the first map we saw.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1006622,"id":1006622,"title":"Redlining","filename":"Redlining.png","filesize":209591,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/5-maps-you-and-your-team-should-see\/redlining","alt":"","author":"6461","description":"","caption":"","name":"redlining","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1006582,"date":"2020-09-14 23:05:39","modified":"2020-09-14 23:05:39","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1009,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":244,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":404,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1009,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-1536x807.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":807,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1009,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-826x434.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":434,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1009}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/webmap\/viewer.html?webmap=063cdb28dd3a449b92bc04f904256f62"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1006922,"id":1006922,"title":"Redlining Detroit Popup","filename":"Redlining-Detroit-Popup.png","filesize":219264,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-Detroit-Popup.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/5-maps-you-and-your-team-should-see\/redlining-detroit-popup","alt":"","author":"6461","description":"","caption":"","name":"redlining-detroit-popup","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1006582,"date":"2020-09-15 02:37:24","modified":"2020-09-15 02:37:24","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-Detroit-Popup-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-Detroit-Popup.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-Detroit-Popup.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-Detroit-Popup.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-Detroit-Popup-1536x864.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-Detroit-Popup.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-Detroit-Popup-826x465.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-Detroit-Popup.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Redlining-Detroit-Popup.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

To learn more about the layer and the background of redlining, visit this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information about how to use GIS to analyze racial inequity, check out any of the following resources:<\/p>\n