Nonprofit opens vast database to public

PolicyMap shows real estate, lending, demographic trends

By Matt Carter, Friday, July 11, 2008

A nonprofit organization that revitalizes communities by investing in affordable housing, schools and businesses is making the vast store of data it has amassed to guide its decisions available to the public through an online data mapping tool, PolicyMap.

PolicyMap is an outgrowth of the work of The Reinvestment Fund, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that has considerable expertise in gathering and analyzing data, including statistics on home sales, lending practices and demographics.

Click here to read this article on Inman News Friday July 11th, 2008.