Newsletter: December 2025

FEATURED POST

The Power of Intersection: Multi-Layer Maps

The Multi-Layer mapping tool is one of the most powerful features in the PolicyMap platform. It allows users to combine up to five data layers, apply conditions to each, and quickly identify geographic areas where those layers intersect or overlap. Explore how new enhancements help you zoom further, clip smarter, and download results for deeper analysis.

ON THE BLOG

Data-Driven Development in D.C.: Insights from ULI Washington’s Future Forum

At ULI Washington’s Future Forum, PolicyMap’s Jacinda Linderman explored how data is shaping development and investment decisions across D.C. See how mapping income, race, housing costs, and federal tools like LIHTC and Opportunity Zones can reveal equity gaps—and help better align capital with community needs.

CUSTOMER STORY

Data-Driven Planning for School-Based Health Centers

Using PolicyMap, the Ohio School-Based Health Alliance highlights where school-based health centers can have the greatest impact by pairing SBHC locations with data on care shortages, food insecurity, uninsured youth, and deep poverty.

**New Data** PolicyMap calculated three new health datasets: predominant chronic conditions, chronic conditions prevalence, and Medicare chronic conditions prevalence.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Compendium of U.S. Health Systems data is now available on PolicyMap. This release includes four new point datasets showing the locations of hospitals, nursing homes, outpatient sites, and home health care organizations that are part of a health system in the United States.

HUD Racially or Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty data has been updated to 2020.

CDC Cancer Incidence data has been updated for the latest 2018-2022 time period.

We are committed to our promise of curated, cleaned, standardized, and always updated data. We’re posting real-time updates on our website, LinkedIn and BlueSky.

Published Research

Explore scholarly works from students and researchers using PolicyMap.

Social determinants of health shape treatment course and long term outcomes in patients with high-risk myeloproliferative neoplasms, published in ScienceDirect

A Joint Effort: Librarians and Faculty Teaching Undergraduate Students Marketing Research Skills Using an Information Literacy Instruction Approach, published in Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice

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Newsletter: December 2025

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