Where is Low Income Housing Tax Credit housing being developed in Los Angeles County?

C.J. GabbeUP 206A Midterm Presentation

November 1, 2012

Where is LIHTC housing being developed in L.A. County?

Skills: geocoding; graduated symbols

Large concentrations in or near downtown Los Angeles

HUD encourages LIHTC development in Qualified Census Tracts

Skills: geoprocessing (clip)

Qualified Census Tracts in central Los Angeles County

About 44% of the county’s LIHTC units are in QCTs

Skills: attribute subset selection (created new shapefile with tracts coded as QCT)

Smart Location Database Land Use Diversity + Rail Transit

Skills: inset map

27% of LIHTC units are within a one-half mile buffer of a Metro rail station

Distance to rail for many developments, however, is a farther walk

Skills: distance

Data Sources• Low Income Housing Tax Credit database (HUD)• LIHTC Qualified Census Tracts database (HUD)• Smart Location Database: A National Dataset for

Characterizing Location Sustainability and Urban Form (EPA)

• City boundaries (L.A. County)• Tract boundaries (U.S. Census)• Highways (ESRI)• Rail lines and stations (Metro)• Aerial image (Bing)

Next steps

• Create an index based on smart location criteria;

• Add data for public housing and voucher holders;

• Analyze walkshed based on a pedestrian network; and

• Use the index to analyze the locations of LIHTC, public housing, and voucher units.