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Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998 (with Kennen S. Gross, Wayne D. Parker, Barbara Poppe, and Ezra Sykes), National Symposium on Homelessness Research (2008)
The authors summarize the progress made in the past decade toward making homeless assistance programs...
 

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Novel Linkage of Individual and Geographic Data to Study Firearm Violence (with Charles Branas, T Richmond, and Doug Weibe), Homicide Studies (2008)
Firearm violence is the end result of a causative web of individual-level and geographic risk...
 

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Rearranging the Deck Chairs or Reallocating the Lifeboats?: Homelessness Assistance and Its Alternatives (with Stephen Metraux), Journal of the American Planning Association (2008)

Problem: At present, homelessness in the

United States is primarily addressed by

providing...

 

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Testing a Typology of Family Homelessness Based on Patterns of Public Shelter Utilization in Four U.S. Jurisdictions: Implications for Policy and Program Planning (with Stephen Metraux, Jung Min Park, Maryanne Schretzman, and Jesse Valente), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2007)
This study tests a typology of family homelessness based on patterns of public shelter utilization...
 

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Employing Community Data to Investigate Social and Structural Dimensions of Urban Neighborhoods: An Early Childhood Education Example (with Christine P. McWayne, Paul A. McDermott, and John Fantuzzo), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2007)
The present study sought to define neighborhood context by examining relationships among data from city-level...
 

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The [First] Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (with Jill Khadduri, Mary Joel Holin, Larry Buron, Alvaro Cortes, and Stephen Poulin), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2007)

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pleased to present this national...

 

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Recent Incarceration History among a Sheltered Homeless Population (with Stephen Metraux), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2006)
This study examined incarceration histories and shelter use patterns of 7,022 persons staying in public...
 

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Family Homelessness: Background Research Findings and Policy Options (with Mary Beth Shinn and Debra R. Rog), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2005)
 

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Childhood Out-of-home Placement and Dynamics of Public Shelter Utilization among Young Homeless Adults (with Jung Min Park and Stephen Metraux), Children and Youth Services Review (2005)
This study determined the prevalence of childhood experiences with child welfare supervision and placement among...
 

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Integrating and Distributing Administrative Data to Support Community Change (with Amy E. Hillier), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2005)
An increasing number of groups are demanding access to information about the physical, economic, and...
 

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Child Welfare Involvement among Children in Homeless Families (with Jung Min Park, Stephen Metraux, and Gabriel Broadbar), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2004)

An analysis of 8,251 homeless children in New York City found that 18% of them...

 

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Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS); Data and Technical Standards Final Notice (with United States Government), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2004)

On July 22, 2003 (68 FR 43430), HUD published a draft Notice that described the...

 

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Public Shelter Admission among Young Adults with Child Welfare Histories by Type of Service and Type of Exit (with Jung Min Park, Stephen Metraux, and Gabriel Broadbar), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2004)

This study examines the prevalence and associated factors of New York City public shelter use...

 

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Homeless Shelter Use and Reincarceration Following Prison Release (with Stephen Metraux), Criminology and Public Policy (2004)
This paper exmaines the incidence of and interrelationships between shelter use and reincarceration among a...
 

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Homelessness and HIV Risk Behaviors among Injection Drug Users (with Stephen Metraux and David S. Metzger), Journal of Urban Health (2004)
This article uses data from an 8-year study of injection drug users to examine whether...
 

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Closing the Gap: Housing (un)Affordability in Philadelphia (with Amy E. Hillier), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2003)
 

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Predicting Housing Abandonment with the Philadelphia Neighborhood Information System (with Amy E. Hillier, Tony E. Smith, and C. Dana Tomlin), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2003)

Several large US cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, have developed information...

 

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Prevalence of Child Welfare Services Involvement among Homeless and Low-Income Mothers: A Five-year Birth Cohort Study (with Jennifer F. Culhane, David Webb, Susan Grimm, and Stephen Metraux), Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (2003)
This paper investigates the five-year prevalence of child welfare services involvement and foster care placement...
 

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Prevalence of Episodic Homelessness among Childbearhing Women in Philadelphia (with David A. Webb, Jennifer F. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, and Jessica M. Robins), American Journal of Public Health (2003)
 

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The Impact of Welfare Reform on Public Shelter Utilization in Philadelphia: A Time-Series Analysis (with Stephen R. Poulin, Lorlene M. Hoyt, and Stephen Metraux), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2003)

The use of public shelters in Philadelphia was examined both before and after the implementation...

 

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The New York-New York Housing Initiative and Use of Public Shelters by Persons with Severe Mental Illness (with Stephen Metraux and Steven C. Marcus), Psychiatric Services (2003)
Objective: The study examined changes in the use of shelters in New York City by...
 

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New Strategies and Collaborations Target Homelessness, Housing Facts and Findings (2002)
 

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Public Service Reductions Associated with Placement of Homeless Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Supportive Housing (with Stephen Metraux and Trevor Hadley), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2002)

This article assesses the impact of public investment in supportive housing for homeless persons with...

 

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Role of Social Disadvantage in Crime, Joblessness, and Homelessness among Persons with Serious Mental Illness (with Jeffrey Draine, Mark S. Salzer, and Trevor R. Hadley), Psychiatric Services (2002)
Research on mental illness in relation to social problems such as crime, unemployment, and homelessness...
 

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Assessing Homeless Population Size through the Use of Emergency and Transitional Shelter Services in 1998: Results from the Analysis of Administrative Data from Nine US Jurisdictions (with Stephen Metraux, Stacy Raphael, Matthew White, Carol Pearson, Eric Hirsch, Patricia Ferrell, Steve Rice, Barbara Ritter, and J. Stephen Cleghorn), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2001)

Objectives. This study reports findings from the first-ever systematic enumeration of homeless population size using...

 

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Comment on James R. Cohen’s “Abandoned Housing: Exploring Lessons from Baltimore” (with Amy E. Hillier), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2001)

For most cities, the possibility of transforming unused property into community and city assets is...

 

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The Co-Occurrence of AIDS and Homelessness: Results from the Integration of Administrative Data for AIDS Surveillance and Public Shelter Utilization in Philadelphia (with Erica E. Gollub, Randall R. Kuhn, and Mark Shpaner), Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2001)
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Administrative databases from the City of Philadelphia that track public shelter utilisation (n=44...
 

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Homelessness among Persons with Severe Mental Illness in an Enhanced Community-based Mental Health System (with Eri Kuno, Aileen B. Rothbard, and June Averyt), Psychiatric Services (2000)
Objective: Homelessness and patterns of service use were examined among seriously mentally ill persons in...
 

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Family Dynamics, Housing, and Homelessness Among Women in New York City Shelters (with Stephen Metraux), Journal of Family Issues (1999)
This study looks at two sets of women who stayed in New York City home...
 

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One-year Rates of Public Shelter Utilization by Race/Ethnicity, Age, Sex and Poverty Status for New York City (1990 and 1995) and Philadelphia (1995) (with Stephen Metraux), Population Research and Policy Review (1999)
This study calculates public homeless shelter utilization rates by sex, race/ethnicity and age status for...
 

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The Differential Impacts of Federally Assisted Housing Programs on Nearby Property Values: A Philadelphia Case Study (with Chang-Moo Lee and Susan M. Wachter), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1999)

Prior research has found negative impacts of public housing on neighborhood quality. Few studies have...

 

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Applying Cluster Analysis to Test a Typology of Homelessness by Pattern of Shelter Utilization: Results from the Analysis of Administrative Data (with Randall Kuhn), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1998)
This study tests a typology of homelessness using administrative data on public shelter use in...
 

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A Perimeter-based Clustering Index for Measuring Spatial Segregation: A Cognitive GIS Approach (with Chang Moo Lee), Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design (1998)
Many efforts have been made to develop segregation indices that incorporate spatial interaction based on...
 

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An Economic Analysis of Housing Abandonment (with Benjamin P. Scafidi, Michael H. Schill, and Susan M. Wachter), Journal of Housing Economics (1998)
Landlord abandonment of rental housing has affected many American cities since the 1960’s. Because of...
 

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Patterns and Determinants of Public Shelter Utilization among Homeless Adults in Philadelphia and New York City (with Randall Kuhn), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (1998)
Administrative data on public shelter utilization among homeless adults from New York City (1 987-1...
 

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Prevalence of Treated Behavioral Disorders among Adult Shelter Users: A Longitudinal Study (with June M. Averyt and Trevor R. Hadley), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (1998)
Of 27,638 homeless adults admitted to Philadelphia public shelters in the years 1990 through 1992,...
 

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Predictors of Exit and Reentry among Family Shelter Users in New York City (with Yin-Ling I. Wong and Randall Kuhn), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1997)
This study explores the process of exit from and reentry to public family shelters for...
 

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For-Profit Versus Non-Profit Freestanding Psychiatric Inpatient Facilities: An Update (with Paul G. Stiles and Trevor R. Hadley), Administration and Policy in Mental Health (1997)
Although several studies have examined the trend toward the decreasing differentiation of non-profit from for-profit...
 

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Impact of Continuity of Care on Recurrence of Homelessness Following an Acute Psychiatric Episode (with June Mann Averyt, Eri Kuno, and Aileen B. Rothbard), Continuum (1997)
Researchers, caregivers, and policymakers alike have always assumed that continuity of care with aftercare services...
 

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Making Homelessness Programs Accountable to Consumers, Funders and the Public (with David Eldridge, Robert Rosenheck, and Carol Wilkins), National Symposiums on Homelessness Research (1997)
This paper discusses how different types of performance measurement can be used to improve the...
 

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The Rate of Public Shelter Admission among Medicaid-Reimbursed Users of Behavioral Health Services (with June Mann Averyt and Trevor R. Hadley), Psychiatric Services (1997)
This study examined the rate of admission to public shelters between 1990 and 1992 among...
 

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Where to from Here? A Policy Research Agenda Based on the Analysis of Administrative Data (with Stephen Metraux), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1997)

This article outlines a policy research agenda based on the analysis of administrative data. Computerized...

 

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Before and After Deinstitutionalization: Comparing State Hospitalization Utilization, Staffing and Costs in 1949 and 1988 (with Paul G. Stiles and Trevor R. Hadley), Administration and Policy in Mental Health (1996)
The literature on deinstitutionalization (DI) and state hospitals is consistent in several areas: patient censuses...
 

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Old and New: A Comparison of State Psychiatric Hospitals (with Paul G. Stiles and Trevor R. Hadley), Psychiatric Services (1996)
This study examined whether state hospitals in operation before deinstitutionalization still cary vestigates of older...
 

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Where the Homeless Come from: A Study of the Prior Address Distribution of Families Admitted to Public Shelters in New York City and Philadelphia (with Chang-Moo Lee and Susan M. Wachter), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1996)

This study investigates hypotheses regarding the association of census tract variables with the risk for...

 

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Federal Plan to Address Homelessness Recognizes Size, Complexity of Problem, Housing Research News (1995)
The Clinton administration's homelessness plan represents a departure from past federal efforts in recognizing the...
 

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The Current Practice of Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization: Results of a National Survey (with Laurel J. Kiser and Trevor R. Hadley), Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1995)

Objective: In 1992, the American Association for Partial Hospitalization initiated a national survey of partial...

 

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Public Shelter Admission Rates in Philadelphia and New York City: The Implications of Turnover for Sheltered Population Counts (with Edmond F. Dejowski, Julie Ibañez, Elizabeth Needham, and Irene Macchia), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1994)

Previous estimates of the size and composition of the U.S. homeless population have been based...

 

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What is a CMHC? A Comparative Analysis by Varying Definitional Criteria (with Trevor R. Hadley, Noel Mazade, and Ronald W. Manderscheid), Administration and Policy in Mental Health (1994)
Using definitions of a community mental health center (CMHC) derived from the original federal legislation,...
 

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Shelters Lead Nowhere, The New York Times (1993)
The city should take state and Federal financing that goes to the shelters and use...
 

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A Reexamination of the Reported Decline in Partial Hospitalization (with Trevor R. Hadley), Journal of Mental Health Administration (1993)
The study examines recent trends in the organization of partial hospitalization services in the United...
 

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The Organization and Utilization of the Shelter System in Philadelphia: Estimating Length of Stay and Turnover, Journal of Health and Social Policy (1993)
This paper describes the structure of the shelter system in the City of Philadelphia and...
 

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The Status of Community Mental Health Centers Ten Years into Block Grant Financing (with Trevor R. Hadley), Community Mental Health Journal (1993)
This study tracks the 761 community mental health centers which received federal grants as of...
 

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Ending Homelessness Among Women with Severe Mental Illness: A Model Program from Philadelphia, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal (1992)
The literature on homelessness among persons with severe mental illness suggests that successful programs for...
 

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Expenditure and Revenue Patterns of State Mental Health Agencies from 1981 to 1987 (with Trevor R. Hadley, Fred Snyder, and Theodore Lutterman), Administration and Policy in Mental Health (1992)
This paper documents expenditure and revenue patterns of state mental health agencies from 1981 to...
 

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Identifying and Tracking "Heavy Users" of Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Services (with Trevor R. Hadley and Martin C. McGurrin), Administration and Policy in Mental Health (1992)
This study explores the extent and consistency of heavy use of acute psychiatric inpatient services...
 

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The Discriminating Characteristics of For-Profit versus Not-For-Profit Freestanding Psychiatric Inpatient Facilities (with Trevor R. Hadley), Health Services Research (1992)
This study examines the characteristics that discriminate between ownership types among private, freestanding psychiatric inpatient...
 

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The Quandaries of Shelter Reform: An Appraisal of Efforts to "Manage" Homelessness, Social Services Review (1992)
In this article, I describe efforts to manage the capacity of homeless shelter programs in...
 

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Who's Paying for Public Substance Abuse Programs? Trends and Inter-state variability in the Revenues of State Drug and Alcohol Abuse Agencies, from 1985-1989 (with Trevor R. Hadley and Theodore C. Lutterman), The Journal of Drug Issues (1992)
This article documents shifts in the inflation-adjusted revenue sources of state drug and alcohol abuse...
 

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Poorhouse Revisited, The New York Times (1991)
The shelter reveals a charade in American welfare policy, pretending to show concern for the...
 

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Single Room Housing Won't End Homeless, The New York Times (1990)
SROs might be the solution for some people, including the older and disabled homeless, but...
 

Books

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Understanding Homelessness: New Policy and Research Perspectives (with Steven P. Hornburg) (1997)
 

Contributions to Books

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The Development of Community Information Systems to Support Neighborhood Change (with Bradley Breuer), Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations (2007)
 

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Homelessness and Public Shelter Provision in New York City (with Stephen Metraux and Susan M. Wachter), Housing and Community Development in New York City: Facing the Future (1999)
New York City, faced since the 1970s with growing numbers of homeless individuals and families,...
 

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The Homeless Shelter and the Nineteenth Century Poorhouse: Comparing Notes from Two Eras of Indoor Relief, Myths about the Powerless (1996)
"Miserable, poorly managed, underfinanced institutions, trapped by their own contradictions, poorhouses failed to meet any...
 

Government Reports and Commissioned Papers

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The 2007 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress (with Jill Khadduri, Alvaro Cortes, Larry Buron, and Steve Poulin), Third Annua Report to the Congress (2008)
The 2007 AHAR is the first AHAR based on an entire year of data about...
 

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The 2006 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (with Jill Khadduri, Larry Buron, Alvaro Cortes, Mary Joel Holin, and Stephen Poulin) (2008)
This is the second Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to the United States Congress. The data...
 

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Homelessness and Child Welfare Services in New York City: Exploring Trends and Opportunites for Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth (with Jung Min Park), Departmental Papers (2007)
 

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Predicting Staying In or Leaving Permanent Supportive Housing That Serves Homeless People with Serious Mental Illness (with Yin-Ling Irene Wong, Trevor R. Hadley, Steve R. Poulin, Morris R. Davis, Brian A. Cirksey, and James L. Brown), US Dept of Housing and Urban Development (2006)
 

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An Assessment of the Housing Needs of Persons with HIV/AIDS: New York City Eligible Metropolitan Statistica Area, Final Report (with Virginia Shubert, Hillary Botein, Suzanne Wagner, and Steve Poulin) (2004)
 

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Where Homeless Families Come From: Toward a Prevention-Oriented Approach in Washington, DC (with Chang-Moo Lee) (1997)
 

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The Treated Prevalence of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders among Adults Admitted to the Philadelphia Shelter System: Results from the Integration of Longitudinal Data on Shelter and Mental Health Services Utilization (with June M. Averyt and Trevor R. Hadley) (1996)
This paper reports results from a study of the treated prevalence of mental health and...
 

Sponsored Research Websites

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Philadelphia Schoolbase (2007)
A web-based tool for creating tables, maps, charts and statistical profiles for Philadelphia's schools and...
 

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Community Research Partners DataSource (Columbus, OH) (2003)
A web-based tool for creating maps, tables, charts and statistical profiles of neighobrhood indicators in...
 

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Philly Sitefinder (2003)
A web-based tool for identifying vacant commercial properties and brownfields in eastern and eastern north...
 

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Philadelphia Muralbase (2001)
A web-based tool for viewing murals and the spatial distribution of public murals by topic...
 

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Palm Beach County Community Resource Information and Mapping System (PBC CRIMS) (2000)
A web-based tool for creating maps, tables, charts and neighoborhood statistical profiles for Palm Beach...
 

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Philadelphia Crimebase (2000)
A web-based tool for creating maps, tables, charts and statistical profiles of Philadelphia's neighborhoods using...
 

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Philadelphia Neighborhoodbase (1998)
A web-based tool for creating tables, maps, charts and statistical profiles of Philadelphia's neighborhoods based...
 

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Philadelphia Parcelbase (1998)
A web-based tool for identifying properties and browsing land records in Philadelphia. Password protected.