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Answer critical response and recovery questions with UrbanFootprint
Designed by planning, emergency response, and recovery experts, the UrbanFootprint data, mapping, and analytics platform distills the complex fabric of factors influencing the COVID-19 crisis into actionable insights – including income and unemployment shifts, underlying health conditions, access to transportation, healthy foods, adequate healthcare, and more. Map and analyze the progression of impacts, vulnerabilities, and policy interventions at the state, city, and neighborhood level.
Case study
City of Baton Rouge
The COVID-19 Recovery Insights Platform is providing granular information on areas where our work against food insecurity is needed most or needs to be intensified. As a result, we are better able to focus our response and maximize the impact of our efforts for our communities.
Mike Manning, President & CEO, Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank
Map where emergency and recovery aid is needed most
Rapidly map where communities are most impacted by the cascading effects of job loss, food insecurity, and underlying social vulnerability.
- Which communities have high rental or housing cost burdens and large numbers of unemployment claims?
- What areas may be especially vulnerable to economic shocks?
- Where are older at-risk populations concentrated?
- Where are high concentrations of unemployed workers in sectors unlikely to bounce back quickly?
Plan tactical deployments of recovery assistance
Analyze the downstream impacts of resource allocations under different health, social and economic recovery scenarios.
- Which neighborhood location will reach the most food insecure residents?
- Which counties most urgently need economic recovery assistance?
- Where are future outbreaks most likely to take place?
Work with UrbanFootprint on the insights you need to Recover Stronger
Analyst
The core web application powers smart recovery planning at every scale. Map and assess existing conditions. Plan tactical responses with built-in parcel and block-level housing, employment, and social vulnerability data.
Explorer
Access dynamic, interactive maps and dashboards that show progress over time across a range of critical recovery indicators such as economic stress, social vulnerability, food security, and more.
Data Subscriptions
Curated by experts in emergency response and recovery, data science, and mapping, our custom datasets help you answer critical questions about where to deploy resources, how to triage response and where to expect economic impact to be greatest in the coming weeks and months.
Work with UrbanFootprint on the insights you need to Recover Stronger
A comprehensive, nation-wide, parcel-level data library of land use, risk and resilience, health, equity, and environmental justice data powers our three offerings below:
Analyst
The core web application powers smart recovery planning at every scale. Map and assess existing conditions. Plan tactical responses with built-in parcel and block-level housing, employment, and social vulnerability data.
Explorer
Access dynamic, interactive maps and dashboards that show progress over time across a range of critical recovery indicators such as economic stress, social vulnerability, food security, and more.
Data Subscriptions
Curated by experts in emergency response and recovery, data science, and mapping, our custom datasets help you answer critical questions about where to deploy resources, how to triage response and where to expect economic impact to be greatest in the coming weeks and months.
In the News
Read how public agencies use UrbanFootprint in COVID-19 response and recovery
