Thursday, October 18, 2007

Action Research Maps

here is a great bunch of maps and other info that Josh Bazuin, Emanuel Gunn, Daniel Leland, Jill Robinson, & Benjamin Siankam in Prof. Susan Saegert's Action Research graduate seminar put together. They describe it as a work-in-progress; Prof Saegert summarized the early findings this way:

The big picture issues seem to be the increase in the population below the poverty level, the increase in foreign born and Latino populations. On the housing front, units of owner occupied housing have increased more in sync with population increases but rental units have not.