Newsletter: July 2024

FEATURED POST

Mapping Homelessness: Visualizing Trends and Challenges

In the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision backing anti-camping laws, which significantly impacts homeless individuals across the nation, PolicyMap’s U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Homelessness data update comes at a crucial time. This refreshed dataset provides essential insights into homelessness, helping communities and policymakers better understand and respond to the ever-evolving challenges faced by homeless populations.

ON THE BLOG

Updates to FBI Property and Violent Crime Data

Discover the latest updates to our FBI Property and Violent Crime data on PolicyMap. Due to changes in the data collection process, we have retired city and county estimates and introduced revised state and new MSA data. PolicyMap encourages users to learn more about the background of this data and the changes implemented in how we present it.

Addressing Diversity in Clinical Research: Data for Alignment with New FDA Guidelines

The FDA will soon require BioPharma companies and Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) to meet new diversity requirements in clinical trials, ensuring studies are inclusive and representative of all populations. This policy update, coupled with increasing awareness of disparities in clinical research access, underscores the urgent need for a more equitable distribution of research opportunities. Learn how PolicyMap can support the move toward greater inclusivity.

CUSTOMER STORY

Purpose Built Communities

Working with dynamic local leaders, Purpose Built Communities cultivates and supports a network of collaborative partners who invest in community-led projects, uplifting the legacy and vision of long-time residents. this nonprofit relies on PolicyMap to understand neighborhood demographics and context, measure initiative impact, and provide essential context for fundraising and grant applications.

Rhode Island Foundation

As one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the United States, the Rhode Island Foundation has a long track record of addressing a wide variety of needs within the state. The organization’s proactive mission drives equity, supports community growth, and serves as a steward of civic capital for Rhode Island. PolicyMap supports these efforts by enabling Foundation staff to evaluate the needs of communities and invest in impactful initiatives more thoroughly.

The HUD homelessness data has been updated to 2023. This data shows homeless estimates as captured in a single point-in-time count.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen) is now available on PolicyMap! The EPA EJScreen includes environmental indicators, socioeconomic indicators, and EJsupplemental indexes that summarize how environmental indicators and specific socioeconomic indicators interact in the same location.

The FBI Violent/Property Crime and Hate Crimes datasets have been updated.

The HUD Qualified Census Tracts (QCTs) and Difficult Development Areas (DDAs) dataset is now updated to 2024.

BLS QCEW data has been updated to 2023.

Valassis has been updated through Quarter 1, 2024. This is a refresh of all the data and updated to 2024 zip code boundaries. All the historic years are re-mapped to 2024 zip code boundaries to assist users with comparisons over time. The update also includes the 2022 vintages of block group, census tract, county boundaries, and the new 2023 Metro Areas.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) & Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Environmental Justice Index is now available on PolicyMap.

The Census LEHD – Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data has been updated to 2021.

EPA’s Environmental Justice Mapping and Screening Tool (EJScreen) has been updated to 2024 on PolicyMap. EJScreen was developed by the EPA to help identify areas with potential environmental justice concerns.

We are committed to our promise of curated, cleaned, standardized, and always updated data. We’re posting real-time updates on our website and X (formerly known as Twitter).

Published Research
Explore scholarly works from students anesearchers using PolicyMap.

A biobehavioral observational study to understand the multilevel determinants of cardiovascular health in Black women: the BLOOM Study protocol published in National Library of Medicine

Neighborhood Measures of Inequity and Visual Impairment and Blindness published in ARVO Journals

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Newsletter: July 2024

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