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New guide and data can help communities make equitable flood investments
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) released a new guide, Integrating equity into flood resilience investments, to help engineers, planners, and decision makers make equitable investments in stormwater and resilience projects.
Included with that guide is a new dataset CMAP compiled to help local governments, engineers, and planners target investments in communities disproportionally impacted by flooding. The dataset includes several data types covering socioeconomic, demographic, health, and environmental inequities.
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Understand job quality and access in your community
Communities can use CMAP’s Job Quality and Access Tool to understand the advantages of their local labor market, identify where support is needed, and develop action plans to strengthen industries that support shared prosperity. The interactive data visualization tool provides analysis on employment trends, industry clusters, job quality, and job accessibility (such as the level of education required) — and users can narrow results by county and zip code.
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Discover updates to the Natural Solutions Tool
The Natural Solutions Tool, which helps communities use green infrastructure, has been updated with new information and an improved user experience. The updates include an expanded biodiversity analysis, additional equity data layers including historical information about racially discriminant housing practices, and high-resolution impervious surface data. Users also no longer need to create an account to use the tool.
The Natural Solutions Tool covers 1,300 square miles and includes nearly 1.5 million parcels in 176 municipalities and 42 subwatersheds in Cook, Lake, DuPage, and Will counties.
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