Housing & Finance Data Collection

Understanding housing affordability, real estate market dynamics and the availability of tax incentives to spur investment at the neighborhood level can open the door to cost-effective and needed housing interventions. Go beyond demographics with PolicyMap’s Housing & Finance Data Collection.

What’s Included?

PolicyMap’s Housing and Community Development Finance dataset offers a unified collection of 80+ US-based data sources. The data covers topics such as federal housing and community development programs – eg. New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) – as well as housing market conditions and affordability, mortgage activity, housing stock characteristics, and community risks and assets.

The collection draws from authoritative sources including the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Moody’s Analytics, CDFI Fund, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), FEMA along with many others. Data is harmonized and available at a wide range of geographic boundaries — from Census Tracts and ZIP Codes to States and Metro Areas.

Where This Data Makes a Difference

Housing Development & Community Planning

Identify underserved regions to expand market coverage, and target the areas with the greatest need for lending and development. Understand housing market conditions at a granular level — from housing gap estimates and cost burden to mortgage activity and community demographics — and pull the core quantitative data needed for Housing Needs Assessments and Community Plans without starting from scratch.

Compliance & Impact Reporting

Track investment in federally designated underserved communities — including Opportunity Zones, New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC), and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) areas — with analytics-ready data, and measure lending equity across demographic and socioeconomic groups to produce defensible impact metrics for stakeholders and regulators.

Model Enrichment

Strengthen machine learning models (MLMs) with contextual data on housing market conditions, housing stock, community risks and assets, lending activity, and demographic and socioeconomic factors — for more accurate predictions, better risk stratification, and more confident decision-making.

Neighborhood-Level Analysis
Analyze trends at a neighborhood and zip code level. Data is always available at the smallest geography available from block group, zip code, and census tract, to metro, city, and state.

Authoritative and Relevant
Data is curated, cleaned, normalized, and always from authoritative sources. Our in-house data experts can provide guidance on how to best use geographic data to achieve your business goals.

Continuously Updated

Data includes current and historic time periods. Regular updates ensure you are accessing the most up-to-date information you can get.

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How We Work

Whether through our intuitive online platform, Salesforce App, or flexible data licensing options, PolicyMap empowers organizations with unparalleled access to comprehensive mapping and data analytics tools.

SaaS Platform

Users can access PolicyMap’s extensive mapping and data analytics tools through its intuitive and powerful online platform. Explore publicly available and proprietary data sources including CDC, CMS, Data Axle, and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), create custom maps, and conduct analyses, no prior GIS-knowledge required. Access to the SaaS platform is available through subscriptions or enterprise licenses and can be customized to fit your organization’s needs through Partner Portals.

PolicyMap for Salesforce

PolicyMap for Salesforce delivers this neighborhood-level market intelligence directly in the Salesforce workflow, providing critical point-in-time data for faster and more informed decisions. Teams making lending, investment, development, or funding decisions need to understand the places behind the deals, and they are often burdened to find, gather, and stitch together external data. PolicyMap for Salesforce embeds neighborhood-level intelligence directly into Salesforce, giving users instant geographic insight, map-based visibility, and location-aware reporting where decisions actually happen.

Data License

PolicyMap offers data licensing options for organizations looking to save time and money by leveraging these normalized datasets for their own applications, research, or analyses. Organizations can license data directly from us or through the Snowflake Marketplace.

Identify Housing Needs with PolicyMap

Housing and economic development organizations need clear, comprehensive data to make informed decisions about infrastructure and housing investments. By analyzing the built environment, economic trends, and risks from natural disasters, organizations can identify community needs and prioritize projects that enhance resilience and drive equitable growth. With PolicyMap, it’s easier to ensure investments have the greatest impact.