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SAMPLE STORIES Excerpts from Stories—Case Studies of Successful Uses of Neighborhood Indicators While the possibility of using computerized neighborhood-level data for community-building purposes is a very recent development, the number of actual applications is growing rapidly. New technology has allowed users to do something that simply would not have been feasible before. Most of the cases are drawn from experiences where citywide data intermediaries or universities worked with individual community groups to accomplish some practical purpose. NEIGHBORHOOD-LEVEL APPLICATIONS: SPECIFIC INITIATIVES Cases describing the efforts of community and service groups to address particular issues at the neighborhood level. In these cases, neighborhood-level information served two purposes: (1) to better plan and implement specific internal improvement initiatives and (2) to influence city agencies, potential investors, or other outsiders. NEIGHBORHOOD-LEVEL APPLICATIONS: ORGANIZING AND CAPACITY BUILDING Cases that also review neighborhood-level applications, but they focus on more cross-cutting uses to help in basic community organizing and building community capacity. CITYWIDE INITIATIVES AND POLICY CHANGE Cases that show how intermediaries developed and applied geographic data to address citywide or metropolitan areawide policy issues affecting the poor—that is, work designed to benefit all poor neighborhoods in the city rather than just one of them.
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