Create Strategies for Place-Based Interventions.
Government agencies at the federal, state and local levels use their data in combination with PolicyMap’s authoritative and exclusive data to design strategies for place-based interventions. By providing governments with an instant geographic data infrastructure, PolicyMap makes consolidated plans, Opportunity Zone development, disaster preparedness and community engagement simple and seamless. Government agencies use PolicyMap daily to identify gaps in service, create more compelling grant applications, and leverage additional funding opportunities.
At the USDA Rural Development (RD), PolicyMap is tracking progress and impacts of their rural housing investments across the nation. USDA RD chose PolicyMap’s Enterprise License solution to simplify and inform their work.
Louisiana Housing Corporation (LHC), a State Housing Finance Agency, uses their PolicyMap Subscription to develop scoring criteria for their Qualified Action Plan and prioritize investment decisions. LHC uses the Interactive Mapping Tool on LHC’s website to empower stakeholders to prepare better funding applications.
“The PolicyMap tool empowers our stakeholders by giving them 24 hour access to information about their community. As for our staff, we are able to have more productive community meetings and healthy conversations that demonstrates that we are aware of and understand the needs of the community.”
- Janel A. Young, Director of Policy and Strategic Initiatives
In Philadelphia, PolicyMap is powering the city’s effort to share its local data (and PolicyMap’s trove of preloaded data) across agencies in a single online resource, the PolicyMap Enterprise License.
“PolicyMap provides us with a greater capacity to make data-driven decisions, coordinate among city agencies and evaluate the impact of our programs.”
- Debra McColloch, Director, Office of Housing and Community Development, City of Philadelphia
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Create competitive grant applications
Whether you are applying for CDBG funds or making the case for financing the renovation of a public health facility, you can use PolicyMap to find the insights you need to make a compelling grant application. Create a quick market report or community health report for the area in which you work; layer data like housing burdens, socially vulnerable populations, spending patterns and access to fresh foods on multi-layer maps. Our data is continuously updated, and we’re always adding new, exclusive data to PolicyMap.
Leverage additional funding opportunities
Find other types of funding that is available in neighborhoods where you work to leverage with your funds, such as New Markets Tax Credits, Historic Tax Credits, and designated funding areas like Opportunity Zones and CRA Eligible Areas, as well as locations of certified CDFIs and potential non-profit partner organizations.
Identify gaps in service
Visualize your projects against our neighborhood data to discover underserved communities and make strategic decisions about future priorities to address those gaps.
Data for Government
PolicyMap curates and authors data crucial to government agencies, ranging from real estate sales to business vacancy rates to our exclusive Social Needs Index. Get neighborhood-level insights by pairing your own datasets with our analytics.
Exclusively on PolicyMap:
PolicyMap's expert data team uses advanced small-area estimate methodology to generate data at the census tract and zip code level, which gives insights into specific neighborhoods that aren't available with county-level data available elsewhere.
Good data, smart decisions.
We’ve curated all of the information you need about a place. PolicyMap organizes the data you need by the topics you care about:
Our sources
All sources are authoritative public sources or proprietary vendors.
Features
Government Solutions
Enterprise License
Enterprise licenses allow you to make PolicyMap available to everyone in your government agency or across agencies. Access is made available via login. Pricing is based on range of access, data and functionality.
Maps & Data for Your Website
PolicyMap can create branded mapping tools for your agency or city, interactive maps for your website and feed data directly into your platform.
Other Resources
Brochure: PolicyMap for Governments
Charting Progress: PolicyMap Democratizes Data Analysis
Land Lines, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy