Category Archives: Trade Publications

Retail Clinics on the Rise and on PolicyMap

Authored by Ken Gross, Ph.D. A solution to the nation’s skyrocketing health care cost just might be found at a grocery store near you. A study appearing in the recent issue of the American Journal of Managed Care (1) found … Continue reading

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PolicyMap maps on latest Marketplace story on

American Dream Fails In Inland Empire TRANSCRIPT Listen to the full audio broadcast of this story here Kai Ryssdal: The recession is, officially, over. A lot of experts and some economic indicators agree on that. But the experts and the … Continue reading

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Two PolicyMap Clients in the News – Congratulations!

Citi Community Development Wins Community Impact Award for Role in Kindergarten to College Program at Annual CRA & Fair Lending Colloquium NEW YORK, Nov 17, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today, Citi Community Development announced that it received the 2011 Community … Continue reading

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Federal Support of State-level Food Policy Councils and Networks

PolicyMap and TRF’s analysis of areas with low-access to supermarkets was recently featured in a new publication from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The document provides public health practitioners with an overview of how to develop an assessment of … Continue reading

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CHPC Mapping Tool Provides a New Resource for Preservation Advocates

This month, CHPC is excited to launch an interactive and easy-to-use mapping tool that allows users to map California’s affordable housing subsidized through the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), the Low-Income Housing … Continue reading

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Data and Mapping Website Expands With New Tools

PolicyMap, a popular Web-based data and mapping application with more than 1,000 government users, has added new features intended to streamline data uploading and interpret it with analytics. A data uploader, an application programming interface (API), a widget embedding function … Continue reading

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Getting to Market: Supermarket access in lower-income areas

The Brookings Institute and The Reinvestment Fund, a community reinvestment group, released a video detailing supermarket access in 10 metro areas. The video, “Getting to Market,” is also accompanied by TRF’s PolicyMap widget, which enables users to find areas where … Continue reading

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Governor Paterson Launches Public-Private Partnership to Expand Grocery Stores in Underserved Neighborhoods

New York Healthy Food/Healthy Communities Initiative Will Increase Number of Food Markets in Communities Throughout New York State NEW YORK, Sep 29, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — –LIIF, Goldman Sachs, TRF, and The Food Trust Will Provide Capital Grants and Loans … Continue reading

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2009 Real Estate Forecast: Troubles Spread

Wealthier neighborhoods that avoided subprime borrowing will be hurt in the new year as the downturn weakens even healthy markets By Prashant Gopal 2008 was the year that subprime borrowers and speculators got hurt by the real estate crisis. 2009 … Continue reading

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policymap.com – all the demographic data you need !

Future of Real Estate Marketing.com, recently brought attention to, as he describes, a “pretty cool” new site called PolicyMap.com ; the site offers: “…over 4,000 indicators related to demographics, real estate, crime, health, schools, housing affordability, employment, energy, and public … Continue reading

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