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Topic: Data Analysis
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topics: Data Analysis, Housing, Transportation
Continuing our series digging into the H+T Index, today we highlight what we learned about who uses our most popular tool from a recent user survey. We received 117 survey responses. While that represents just a fraction of the H+T Index’s regular monthly user base — the tool is accessed more than...
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topics: Data Analysis, Environmental Justice, Policy
CNT and the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization counted trucks and buses throughout Chicagoland. The counts available through this open-source portal shine a light on the problem of high truck traffic in environmental justice communities.
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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Housing, Policy, Transportation
The main purpose of the H+T Index is to help users identify the most “location efficient” places across the United States by calculating the cost of housing as well as the cost of transportation to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the affordability of place. We learned through surveys...
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topics: Data Analysis, Environmental Justice, Policy
Is the Justice40 Screening Tool identifying the most disadvantaged communities?
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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Environmental Justice, Policy
The White House Justice40 Initiative aims to send 40% of dollars in federal infrastructure and environment programs to under-invested communities. But how do they measure that? We partner with frontline groups to monitor how well public investments line up with Justice40 goals.
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topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Policy, Transportation
The H+T® Affordability Index highlights location efficiency by using an “apples to apples” comparison of housing costs. What’s the Question? Users often ask why we use the median-income household in every block group in a metro area, pointing out that this misrepresents the actual costs for the...
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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Housing, Policy, Transportation
Where Matters reveals the hidden insights that support more equitable, sustainable communities in Northeast Ohio—and across more than 380 metros nationwide.
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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Environmental Justice, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Flooding, Water
A quantitative and qualitative look at urban flooding that visualizes flooding indicators and urban flooding locations in the Calumet Region of Cook County.
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topics: Data Analysis, Environmental Justice, Urban Flooding
CNT’s exploration of urban flooding CNT has worked on urban flooding for several years, focusing specifically on urban flooding because of the realities in Chicago and Illinois more broadly. FEMA's Flood Insurance Rate Maps create floodplains based on flooding from bodies of water. But based on...
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topics: Data Analysis, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Transportation
The Washington Transit Access Map allows you to look up information about the type of transit service available in any location in Washington State. The map is tool for advocates, planners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in understanding where transit is frequent and reliable,...