Homelessness Risk Tutorial

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Data related to homelessness from an ArcGIS tutorial

ESRI publishes a tutorial for creating maps for analyzing homelesness, 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.

For this data package, the files from the .gdb database have been converted to GeoJSON, to be imported into the package.

The files are interesting, but poorly documented and of unknown provenance, so probably should only be used for tutorials and demonstrations. Some information about the dataset can be inferred from an ESRI Homelessness Story Map, which appears to use these datasets.

Documentation Links

• Tutorial Tutorial web page
• Combating Homelessness in Los Angeles County Homelessness story map

Contacts

• Wrangler Eric Busboom, Civic Knowledge

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

References

• Data package. Data package included in the tutorial.