New on PolicyMap this Month!
Additional Data for use in your NSP Application
- 120% of AMI: PolicyMap now has 120% Area Median Incomes (AMI) for 1 through 8 person families. Find these in the State & Local tab under HUD NSP Datasets Round 2.
- Updated USPS Vacancy Data: 1st quarter 2009 vacancy data from the US Postal Service is now available on PolicyMap. You can now track both the number and percentage of vacant units each quarter starting with the 1st quarter of 2008.
In just another day or so, you’ll also be able to access the new “Combined Index Score” that HUD just released as an update to the NSP2 NOFA requirements. This score represents the higher of the two indices currently provided by HUD for each census tract. To quote HUD’s correction:
“HUD is providing two foreclosure related needs scores at the Census Tract level, one that is based on the estimated number and percentage of foreclosures and another that combines estimated foreclosure rate with vacancy rate. Both scores rank need from 1 to 20, with 20 being census tracts with the HUD-estimated greatest need. For each census tract, the higher of the two index scores will be used to compute an average combined index score.”
Look out for an email from PolicyMap when it becomes available.
Remember, you can search the map by address, add an indicator, zoom in or out, and pan around to find your area of interest. Click on a shaded area of the map to see the value for that census tract. Maps can be saved as jpegs to pull right into your application. All of this is a free service of PolicyMap.
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