GIS Action for Economic and Social Justice project addresses a range of crucial and closely interwoven social and economic justice needs. Our project focuses primarily on core social and economic needs: workers earning less than a livable wage, affordable housing needs, regressive federal budget policies, housing discrimination and exclusionary housing policies, and access to financial services, especially for community reinvestment purposes, small business, and small farms.

We are particularly interested in the core social and economic needs. We consider not only failures within the private sector to provide adequate wages, affordable housing, and equitable access to credit, but also inadequate government responses to such needs usually in the form of government inaction but, in some cases, stemming from government actions that exacerbate social and economic needs.

We work to help local social justice organizations use GIS tools to document at the local community level the scope of social and economic needs and the impact of inadequate governmental responses to these needs. The primary GIS tools are databases that have references to local geographies and mapping at the local community level.

Reforming the GSE Housing Goals:
Legislation Pending in Congress