Financial Justice Mapping Project
NEDAP provides geographic information systems (GIS) mapping support to community groups, advocacy coalitions, and legal services advocates in New York City. NEDAP's maps are clear and compelling, and illustrate financial services access and other economic conditions in NYC neighborhoods.
NEDAP has produced maps, for example, showing:
- Home foreclosure patterns, correlated to neighborhood race, income, and other demographics
Groups have used NEDAP's maps to expose redlining and discriminatory lending practices; strengthen community education and organizing; support fair housing and civil rights litigation; educate elected officials about the need for policy reform; and bolster corporate accountability campaigns.
Examples include:
- NEDAP and other members of New Yorkers for Responsible Lending have used NEDAP's subprime lending and foreclosure maps to educate community residents, elected officials and the media about predatory lending, and to advocate for strong anti-predatory lending legislation in New York State.
- NEDAP mapped the concentration of usurious tax refund loans in low income neighborhoods and communities of color. Financial justice activists used the maps in community organizing and advocacy campaigns, including to press national bank regulators to crack down on these abusive loans.
- NEDAP prepared maps showing the absence of mainstream banking services in Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, and North Corona for a coalition of immigrant advocates seeking to organize a community development credit union in the area.
For more information
For more information
NEDAP provides mapping services to NYC community groups on a sliding-scale fee basis or at no cost, depending on organizational budgets. To inquire about mapping assistance, please email us or call (212) 680-5100.
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