Mapping NYCHA Communities' Disinvestment: Segregation, Police Stops, Unemployment, and Poverty
Public housing is always entwined with broader communities. Green investments in NYCHA and low-income workers across the city will help lift up over-policed, under-invested communities of color. Click through to see Data for Progress maps of NYCHA developments in their neighborhood context, with census-tract level data showing % non-white, annual stop-and-frisk police stops, % population under federal poverty line, and % unemployed. Maps show the whole city, then every district with NYCHA buildings. Blue shading indicates a gradient of projected sea level rise, from 3 to 10 feet. This is also a good proxy for flood risk during storms and hurricanes.
Maps credit: Nick Graetz (Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative), Alexandra Lillehei (McHarg Center), Katherine Lample (McHarg Center), Daniel Aldana Cohen (Data for Progress and Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative) and Billy Fleming (Data for Progress and McHarg Center).
