NALCAB Neighborhood Change Index |

NALCAB Neighborhood Change Index

Proposed neighborhood change index for Bexar County, Texas. Image: CURPR.

Principal Investigator:
Esteban López Ochoa, PhD, Assistant Professor, Urban and Regional Planning

Researchers:
Ian Caine, Associate Professor, Director, Center for Urban and Regional Planning Research
Luis Escalante, Research Assistant
Rashida Noor, Research Assistant

Project Sponsor:
National Association of Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB)

A national network of 160+ nonprofit organizations that serve diverse Latino communities in forty states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico. One of NALCAB’s organization goals is to provide their affiliates with an accurate measure of neighborhood change. With this study, the Center presented NALCAB with a detailed examination of neighborhood change indices and proposed four alternatives. The study assesses the effectiveness of each index as well as their appropriateness to track neighborhood change. Taken together, the results and indices provide NALCAB with guidelines to clarify the definition of neighborhood change, select an appropriate index, understand how to interpret each index, and assess each index’s limitations and strengths.

Collaborating Research Lab:

Housed Lab

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