Center for Geospatial Solutions

The White House released a new call to action to create #AffordableHousing — and CGS is helping provide the data to build solutions! #WhoOwnsAmerica uses parcel-level data to help local governments and municipalities take a first step to better understand development opportunities for new housing. #HousingSolutions #UrbanPlanning #PublicLand Learn more about the analysis: https://lnkd.in/g7Ui_-ia

Congrats to Lincoln Institute of Land Policy on their new publication, City Tech! We're excited to continue working with you to put technology to work for the public good.

We're #hiring for a Program Manager! Join our Internet of Water team's work to help implement useful, socially relevant data sharing technology and practices in Uganda, Ethiopia, and South Africa. This position is based in the United States and will include domestic and international travel.

Accurate land ownership data is crucial for informing swift and targeted housing strategies. Jeffrey Allenby, GISP sat down with the Land Matters podcast to talk about the latest Who Owns America® analysis from CGS, and how it's helping local decision-makers across the country create more effective housing policy. Listen to the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy podcast: https://lnkd.in/g4Xu77DQ Check out the analysis here: https://lnkd.in/g7Ui_-ia #HousingSolutions #UrbanPlanning

“People think that available land is a limiting agent to our ability to meet our housing needs. And it’s just not true.” — Lincoln Institute President and CEO George McCarthy The Salt Lake Tribune’s Sofia Jeremias investigated how The White House’s recently announced actions to lower housing costs—which cite new research by our Center for Geospatial Solutions—will impact Utah. Read her piece: https://lnkd.in/eEtXkREG Dive into CGS’ research: https://lnkd.in/g7Ui_-ia

Better land data leads to better housing solutions — and with #WhoOwnsAmerica’s parcel-level detail, we’re able to bring new insights into discussions for municipalities, policymakers, and more. As the new The White House fact sheet calls for congressional action to curb corporate landlords, WHOA is helping municipalities defend their housing stock by beating institutional investors at their own game. WHOA gives local governments and community leaders access to parcel-level data to track who owns what property in their areas so they can make policy to defend local home ownership and construct new affordable housing. Explore the analysis yourself: https://lnkd.in/g7Ui_-ia #UrbanPlanning #HousingSolutions

#CalltoAction Does your community need more #housing? The White House is calling on state, local, tribal, and territorial entities, as well as transit agencies, public utilities, school districts, and other quasi-governmental agencies, and encouraging faith-based, community, and other non-profit institutions to consider whether land they hold might be suitable for the development of affordable housing. Based on new analysis, the Center for Geospatial Solutions at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy estimates the development potential of underutilized state and local government land located near transit at approximately 1.9 million units nationwide on over 276k acres of infill sites and surplus land. #Link to tool-check out your community! https://lnkd.in/eA3cHqB2 Top 5 States With Greatest Housing Development Potential: 1. #Massachusetts: ~25.8K acres 2. #Florida: ~20.8K acres 3. #Washington: ~15.9K acres 4. #Texas: ~15K acres 5. #California: ~14.6K acres U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation can offer technical assistance to help governments identify and repurpose land they own for housing, and HUD published a best practices guide that includes examples and strategies governments can deploy to repurpose their land for housing. shortages. Link to call to action: https://lnkd.in/ezv-7f_U Aaron Shroyer Chad Maisel Daniel Hornung Midwestern Governors Association National Governors Association United States Conference of Mayors NAACP National League of Cities Terner Center for Housing Innovation Bipartisan Policy Center NYU Furman Center Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Urban Land Institute Urban Institute Opportunity Finance Network Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) John Moon NDN Collective David Bowers Ford Foundation Jennifer Castenson

“Finding adequate shelter for our families is critical—and a government created by the people and for the people should not hesitate to find ways to put its own buildable land to work.” In his latest President’s Message, George McCarthy outlines a new analysis by the Center for Geospatial Solutions that demonstrates how the public, private, and civic sectors can together develop millions of units of desperately needed housing on affordable, available land. Learn how the US can address its housing shortage: https://lnkd.in/eypbnDJX

CGS is at #EsriUC2024! Meet up with some of our team members and learn about how CGS is using GIS to help changemakers address issues like housing affordability, conservation, and more! And whether you're at the conference or online, check out the virtual map gallery — and drop a vote for the map we helped develop to explore education and resource inequality. https://lnkd.in/gqCZCZBE Justin M. Madron Reina Murray Jeffrey Allenby, GISP

President George “Mac” McCarthy spoke to the National Association of Counties Board of Directors about Who Owns America this morning. He highlighted the expertise of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s Center for Geospatial Solutions and Claremont Lincoln University and how their collaboration can help counties understand the complexities and trends of homeownership in their communities. #NACoAnn #CGS #municipalleaders #changemakers #vibrantcommunities