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Applying Opportunity Mapping to Social Justice
“Opportunity mapping” has been completed for many metropolitan areas and used by advocates to further fair housing and community development goals. The Kirwan Institute for the Study for Race and Ethnicity has completed opportunity mapping in a dozen metropolitan areas, often at the request of community groups and advocacy organizations interested in community development and fair housing. For more information on these projects and other mapping initiatives follow this link.
Selected Kirwan Institute opportunity mapping projects:
- Baltimore (Thompson v. HUD)
- Central Texas Opportunity Mapping Initiative
- Ohio Educational Asset Mapping
- Communities of Opportunity in the Chicago Region
- Neighborhood Opportunity and African American Males
Additional examples of using maps to inform decision making and advocacy:
- Assessing the relationship between race, poverty and health care resources in New York
- Assessing if the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program is supporting segregation
- Exploring Minority Business Development and Economic Conditions in Cleveland, OH
- Exploring housing need and access to opportunity in Columbus, OH
- Mapping health care investments, hospital closures and race in Ohio
