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5. The Role of Partnerships
5. The Role of Partnerships
Pages 93-106
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for providing data to the nation. HUD's vertical relationships include citizens and community groups, local organizations such as city governments, agency employees, and the urban planning and research community.
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The data could be centralized and made more accessible to these groups to improve HUD's program performance through assessment and to better address housing and urban issues. HUD can use GIS to facilitate the agency's efforts to interact with organizations beyond its institutional boundaries to build vertical and horizontal networks to share data, discuss housing and urban issues, and ultimately create public policy to respond to these issues.
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The findings of that demonstration program underscore the importance of cooperation and commitment of local agencies including counseling agencies, and provision of related information and referral services in the success of such programs (Goering et al., 1999~. Relationships Within HUD HUD is an organization of 9,000 employees with a complex structure involving a central office in Washington, D.C., and more than 80 field offices throughout the United States.
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HUD committed to $50 million in HOPE Vl Urban Revitalization Demonstration funds and $19 million in Public Housing Development funds to build 493 replacement public housing units. Slated for construction are 2,000 new mixed-income housing units (row housing, duplexes, and mid-rise buildings)
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HUD can encourage and support the recipients of HUD Finding so that their data conform to FGDC standards, are comparable across the nation, and can be used to update national databases. Conclusion: HUD can use GIS as a tool to strengthen the agency's commitment to engaging communities by taking advantage of local knowledge about housing and urban development through more effective public participation in the development of local data sets.
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Realizing that, these goals require community-level participation to help build national data resources from the bottom up. This will include elements of statutory, hierarchical relationships as well as cooperative, voluntary relationships.
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When organizations at different stages of GIS development come together, achieving cooperation may be difficult even if the parties are willing in principle to share data. As HUD develops its GIS initiatives, it will have to understand the many and varied voluntary and cooperative arrangements that will help it succeed.
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HUD provides funds to states through Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and the Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME)
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HUD can use GIS to integrate the methodological expertise housed in universities and the local expertise of communities and local governments. At the same time, with HUD as a conduit to local community groups, academic researchers can gain access to local data and local knowledge about relevant urban and housing issues.
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The program issued a draft report to HUD in May 2002 that identified "difficulty in reconciling the need for uniform and consistent urban indicators from the top down or global perspective, while developing a bottom-up perspective of developing useful data for local planning and policy analysis" (Dueker and Jampoler, 2002~. The authors recommend building local capacity to collect and use policy-related indicators, thus increasing capacity of participants to continue urban indicator analysis on a long-term basis.
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Cooperating with other federal efforts will bring HUD as an institution into ongoing dialogue with other federal agencies and important state and local parkers. This will ensure that HUD knows and follows federal data procedures and fully employs the developing spatial data inhas~ucture to benefit HUD as art agency, HUD's clients, and communities across the county.
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Support is essential for local governments and other local-level users to develop capability in spatial analytical research and for more advanced research taking place inside HUD and in universities and other urban research centers. GIS tools, such as an online clearinghouse for spatial data research and urban simulation models, can be used to promote analysis of complex urban issues spanning geographic scales of neighborhood, community, region, state, and nation, which are at the heart of HUD's mission.
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2. HUD can use GIS as a tool to strengthen HUD's commitment to engaging communities by taking advantage of local knowledge about housing and urban development through more effective public participation.
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