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What Community Development Professionals Can Expect at the Esri User Conference

A community development professional's guide for events and sessions at the annual Esri User Conference.

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Community Development
Community Development

A Housing Statistics and Policy Update for Planning Professionals

Planning professionals are at the center of managing the housing crisis. GIS helps drive and present a data-driven strategy for their communities

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Community Development
Community Development

GIS Addresses Continued Housing Challenges

Planners need to embrace a data-driven approach with GIS to build sustainable communities.

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Community Development
Community Development

Planners Need to Quit Using Sticks & Start Using Carrots – First Step, Start with GIS

Adopting geospatial technology helps planning professionals to create innovative solutions and design a thriving community.

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Community Development
Community Development

Leveraging Site Suitability Analysis to Validate Policy

Learn how planners can take a data-driven approach to further quantify and qualify planning recommendations.

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Community Development
Community Development

Three Tools Every Planner Needs to Use During COVID-19

Location is going to be a key factor in COVID-19 planning. Here are three tools that can help justify your policy decisions.

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Community Development
Community Development

A Strong Foundation for GIS – What It Means for Planning Professionals

Explore this briefing about ArcGIS apps that planning departments need to help make better, more sustainable, and more justifiable decisions.

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Community Development
Community Development

Location and Policy Development for Housing

GIS has always been used in this arena to design land use and sites, but this evolving technology is now being used by to help validate policy.

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Community Development
Community Development

Planners and the Growing Trend of Counter-Urbanization

As planners are impacted by an increase in counter-urbanization GIS can help planners prepare in the short and long term.

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Community Development
Community Development

Community Planning and Policymaking for Homelessness

Planners are participating in policymaking beyond just typical changes in zoning and land use. One of which is managing homelessness.

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