Digital Spatial Data

Housing and Urban Development

Overview

This page contains information on housing and urban/community development related information sources.

Map above showing average 1-4 family house purchase loan. Source: FFIEC HMDA 2003, loans purchased by location of purchased house.

There are many other data sources related to housing. For example, topographic and planimetric data sometimes contains building information (building footprints), and property and parcel data are also another source for housing data. Please visit our Planimetric and Topographic Mapping and Parcels and Property Files websites for more information. Another important data source is US decennial censuses. US Census collects population and housing information every 10 years. Please visit our US Census Data website for more information.

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Enterprise Geographic Information System (EGIS)

The Enterprise Geographic Information System (EGIS) is an Internet application developed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI). The EGIS will provide users with easy access to mapping tools and HUD data to support housing and community development programs at the state, county, city, and neighborhood levels.

This Internet application will allow federal, state, local agencies, as well as the general public, to view various & current HUD housing and community development data. HUD housing and community development data are also downloaded as shapefiles from "Map Your Community" website. (Tip: "Download data" button is hidden in the "advanced toolbar" -- zoom in to the area you are interested in; some detailed datasets are only viewable/downloadable at a large scale.)

(Downloadable data descriptions)
Spatialcoverage: U.S.
Temporal coverage: N/A
Scale: N/A
Format: Shapefiles
Coordinate System: Geographic, decimal degrees projection (NAD 1983)
Access Constraints: None

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HUD Research Maps (R-Maps)

R-MAPS, a PD&R initiative, initiates a new series of HUD products designed to democratize housing and urban data, making the data more widely accessible and useful to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. The geographically coded data in these CD-ROMs are readable through most desktop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - will enable you to apply the powerful tools of spatial analysis to a wide variety of housing and urban issues in your locality and elsewhere throughout the united states. The AGSL has all three volumes.

 

Volume 1: Picture of Subsidized Households in 1998
It contains data on residents of the 5 million units that are subsidized through three major HUD housing programs.

Volume 2: Selected Research Data Sets for 1998 (AHS, GSE and HMDA, LITHIC, Picture of subsidized Households, State of the Cities)
It contains geographic files with program data on American Housing Survey, Government Sponsored Enterprises and Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, Picture of Subsidized Households, and State of the Cities. Additionally, it includes boundary files for the MSAs, central cities, and suburbs for the State of the Cities database.

Volume3: Selected PD&R Data Sets With Land View
It contains data sets for American Housing Survey, Enterprise Zone/Empowerment Community, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, Government Sponsored Enterprises, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, New Market Initiatives, Picture of Subsidized Households in 1998 and State of the Cities.

Spatial coverage: U.S.
Temporal coverage: 1998
Scale: N/A
Format: DBase tables and/or shapefiles 
Coordinate System: Geographic, decimal degrees projection (NAD 1983)
Access Constraints: None

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Comments for the AGSL? Send them to agsl@uwm.edu.