LOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE Neighborhoods@Work: ASSESSING IMPACT AND OPPORTUNITY

March 15, 2011

BackgroundPromise Neighborhoods

Harlem Children’s Zone

Community Change Initiatives

Place-based

People-based welfare, unemployment, and housing vouchers serve individuals or families

Place-based transportation investments and business tax credits in a given area, target specific areas or communities

Project ScopeNEIGHBORHOODS @ WORK (N@W)

Place-based effort within the 70-block neigborhoodsurrounding Crenshaw High School called Park Mesa Heights.

• education• employment• health• housing• safety

POLICY PROBLEM

CAUSALITY

INSUFFICIENT ANALYSIS

REALTIVE IMPACT

In order to further understand the impact of the N@W program, the Urban Leagues needs to compare the program indicators to surrounding areas.

Background

Median IncomeHomeownership

CRITERIA

Proposed Control Regions

Park Mesa Heights: Crenshaw High School

Los Feliz: John Marshall High School

Baldwin Park: Baldwin Park High School

Vernon: Fremont High School

Lomita/Harbor City: Nathaniel Narbonne High School

Neighborhood and High School

ANALYSIS PMH vs. Controls

Education Employment Health Safety Housing

-40.0%0.0%

40.0%

-35.7%

0.9% 21.2% 3.9%

-14.8%

Free and Reduced Lunch

High School

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1. Measuring progress in Park Mesa Heights is a challenging:

1. There is limited data available at the census track level2. Longitudinal data at current (2010) year reporting is limited

2. PMH has not shown progress in all areas1. Higher API relative to control group2. Higher rates of increased obesity relative to control group; free or reduced

lunch recipients have not changed significantly3. Foreclosure rates rank in the middle relative to control group

3. Neighborhood change efforts take time1. Proactively transforming the quality of life within a particular geographic

region takes time2. Measuring indicators of social transformation take even longer given the

availability of data

Findings and Recommendations

Model

Metadata

GIS SKILLS

Skill Used

Inset Map Modeling

Attribute Sub-Set Selection Metadata

Point Graduated Symbol Measurement (buffer)

Geocoding Original Data

Buffering Charts, Graphs, or Images