HUD Housing Inventory Count

Project-level housing inventory for 2012 to 2018.

hudexchange.info-hic-project-1

Resources

  • hic. Combined HIC, 2012 to 2018

Documentation

DUring the annual Point in Time Count, HUD also collects information about sheltered homeless, with detailed information about housing projects, including number of beds, occupancy, funding, and many other variables.

There is no formal data dictionary, so the dataset is lighly documented; the meaning of the fields is probably part of the HDX web application.

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HUD Point in Time Counts by CoC

Combined years of sheltered and unsheltered homeless counts, by CoC.

hudexchange.info-pit-coc-1

Resources

Documentation

HUD publishes an Excel workbook with sheltered and unsheltered counts, aggregated to CoC, for the whole country, for 2007 on. In this dataset, each year is in a seperate worksheet, and later years have more columns than earlier years, and most column names include the year as a suffix.

This data package combines al of these years into a single file, with normalized column names. Cells in years that don’t have a column that are in later years are filled with nulls, and each row is prefixed with the year of the file that the original row was sourced from.

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Homelessness Risk Tutorial

Data related to homelessness from an ArcGIS tutorial

arcgis.com-risk-3

Resources

  • resources. Homeless population, crime, and 311 calls by tract and community.
  • county_outline. County bountry outline
  • shelters_services. Locations and basic information for shelters and other services
  • homeless_population. Detailed homeless population data per tract.
  • risk_factors. Tract level neighborhood risk factors, probably from teh American Community Survey

Documentation

ESRI [publishes a tutorial for creating maps for analyzing homelesness](<http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/analytics/case-studies/la-county-homel essness-2-pro-workflow.htm>), with a link to the data used. Many of the data are from lahsa.org and economicrt.org, but the package also includes many other columns. The data download includes a .gdb file, which includes no documentation, although there may be documentation in the HomelessnessPkg.ppkx file.

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LA Homelessness Demographic Survey

Standardized Records from the Demographic Survey of Unsheltered Individuals

economicrt.org-demographic_survey-1

Resources

  • combined_survey. Combined survey data from 2011 to 2017, with all columns, naievely combined
  • multiyear_survey. Data from Demographic Surveys and HMIS Records 2011 to 2017, with a normalized subset of common columns

Documentation

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) conducts annual in-person surveys of the unsheltered homeless population in Los Angeles. This data package includes the standardized versions of the annual survey data for 2011 through 2017, combined into a single file (combined_survey) and another multi year file that was produced by UCLA, which includes only the common columns from the multi-year files. (multiyear_survey)

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California Notary County Codes

Numeric county codes used by California government.

sandiegodata.org-county_codes-ca-3

Resources

Documentation

These county codes are used in California Department of Education CDS identification numbers, and a variety of other places. They are different from the FIPS codes for counties used by the US Census.

These codes were scraped from a website.

Versions

  1. Initial version
  2. Added Census FIPS codes and Census county names
  3. Fixed error

Contacts

  • Wrangler

Eric Busboom, Civic Knowledge

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California Schools and Districts

California public schools, private schools and districts.

cde.ca.gov-schools-2.1.1. Modified 2022-06-17T15:44:42

Resources

Documentation

License

The source data, from the California Department of Education, does not explicitly reference a license, but since the top-level website for California indicates that data published on the State of California website is generally in the public domain, we assume it is in the public domain. Derived data included in this package is also in the public domain. Metadata in this package ( contained in the metadata.csv file ) is derived from metadata for the source package, and is also in the public domain.

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Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Sites, 2020

The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) provides federal funding to participating child care and adult day care centers, allowing the centers to serve nutritious meals to enrolled participants

cde.ca.gov-cacfp_sites-1.2.1. Modified 2022-06-15T17:58:35

Resources

  • cacfp_sites. CACFP sites, with location geocode and program type dummy variables

Documentation

California Department of Education CACFP sites file, with extra features, include:

  • Sites geocoded to Lat/Lon and Census tract
  • The program_types field is broken out into dummy variables
  • CDS codes are matched from the CDE schools list.

CDS Code Matching

There are 5 different methods for matching sites to schools in the schools file, each with its own code:

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San Diego Roads

Extract from the Sangis Roads_all file, for roads in San Diego city

sangis.org-roads-sandiego-1

Resources

Documentation

Contacts

  • Wrangler

Eric Busboom, Civic Knowledge

Packages

Accessing Packages in Metapack

import metapack as mp
# ZIP Package
pkg = mp.open_package('https://library-metatab-org.s3.amazonaws.com/sangis.org-roads-sandiego-1.zip')
# CSV Package
pkg = mp.open_package('https://library-metatab-org.s3.amazonaws.com/sangis.org-roads-sandiego-1.csv') 

resource = pkg.resource('resource_name') # Get a resource
df = resource.dataframe() # Create a pandas Dataframe
gdf = resource.geoframe() # Create a GeoPandas GeoDataFrame

Data Dictionary

all_roads

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San Diego County Business Sites

Point locations of businesses and tract aggregations of counts of businesses by type.

sangis.org-business_sites-2

Resources

Documentation

This dataset is based on the SANGIS BUSINESS_SITES data file, which is compiled from the Assessors Business Property Account Master file. This file is different from the City of San Diego’s business list, in that it includes records for the whole county, it categorizes businesses differently ( not using NAICS codes ) and for some categories, it does not appear to be very accurate.

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California Healthy Places Index

The HPI provides overall scores and more detailed data on specific policy action areas that shape health, like housing, transportation, education and more.

healthyplacesindex.org-healthy_places_index-san_diego-4

Resources

  • hpi. Healthy Places Index master file

Documentation

The Healthy Places Index is a collection of indicators produced by the Public Health Alliance of Southern California from a wide variety of data sources to study social determinants of health. It offers index values for many topics – about 80 columns – as well as a weighted aggreate index value, all at the tract level.

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