Open Source GIS Tools for Housing Activists and Advocates
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The University of Arizona.Rights
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This item is part of the MS-GIST Master's Reports collection. For more information about items in this collection, please contact the UA Campus Repository at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that over 650,000 people were unhoused in 2023. The U.S. has an affordable housing crisis, and advocates and activists across the country are struggling to fix the causes and catalysts for this issue. Prevention, preferable to correction, highlights the importance of keeping people housed as the most desirable intervention. The difficulty with being proactive is in achieving the ability to see the when and where of potential problems before they arise. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) allow problems that are firmly spatially bound, such these, to be investigated in various ways. These systems, however, need training and expertise to be utilized successfully. This project aims to demonstrate a methodology for connecting the spatial and GIS tool expertise of GIST professionals with contextual knowledge and the capacity to operationalize information of advocates and activists on the ground by using a well-established and highly-developed model and toolset for distributed development and collaboration found in the field of open-source software development.Type
Electronic Reporttext