Maps and Cartographic Resources

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, critical cartography, and multimedia storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes Primarily working in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York City. Filter location to "Los Angeles" for LA region focused data and information.

Mapping database of areas described by the United States Home Owners' Loan Corporation between 1935 and 1940. Note phrases such as "infiltration" and "hazardous" to indicate areas with relatively higher numbers of minority residents, therefore "redlined" and deemed too risky to grant mortgage loans to residents.

Mapping Prejudice identifies and maps racial covenants, clauses that were inserted into property deeds to keep people who were not White from buying or occupying homes. From our base in the University of Minnesota Libraries, our interdisciplinary team collaborates with community members to expose the history of structural racism and support the work of reparations.

Esri’s Racial Equity GIS Hub is an ongoing, continuously expanding resource hub to assist organizations working to address racial inequities. The Racial Equity GIS Hub includes data layers, maps, applications, training resources, articles on best practices, solutions, and examples of how Esri users from around the world are leveraging GIS to address racial inequities.

theworksLA team works with data about all that is Los Angeles through maps, graphics and popular education. From identifying industrial facilities and their effects on communities to finding where all the tacos are in the city, there's many stories to share.