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MPIP explores positive community effects of regional rail lines
In March 2008, MPIP researcher David Bartelt presented data and maps to the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission’s Regional Citizen’s Committee that demonstrated the range of communities served by the region’s rail network (SEPTA, PATCO, and New Jersey Transit). The presentation focused on measuring the regional rail system as a community asset that benefits the households and communities of the region; it examined the relationships between rail ridership and housing values, the community tax base, and community vitality.
New report on Community Attitudes across Pennsylvania
In addition to surveying households within the Greater Philadelphia region, Temple researchers have also surveyed households across the state of Pennsylvania, asking them the same questions we asked within the Philadelphia metro region. A new report looks at whether Pennsylvanian's attitudes about their communities differed systematically depending on the type of community they live in.
MPIP joins National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
The National Neighborhood Indicator Partnership (NNIP; http://www.urban.org/nnip) has become a key data partner with The Reinvestment Fund as they represent Philadelphia in a national partnership of 22 sites to further the democratization of data in the service of community needs assessment, program development and new initiatives for community development.
MPIP presentations at National Conferences
MPIP presented a discussion of the difficulties of working with spatially diffuse data (on the environment and on transportation at the International Community Indicators Consortium in March, 2004. A PowerPoint summary of the presentation will be available shortly on this website. MPIP also coordinated a panel presentation of the multiple constituencies and interests involved in developing a community indicators system at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association in April, 2004.