Flint Hills
Fair Housing Equity Assessment/
Regional Analysis of Impediments
The Census Bureau and American Community Survey give us detailed count and estimate data on the age, race, family and household composition of the region. We have collected data for the Flint Hills region, as a whole and for each of our seven counties and cities over 1,000.
From the Bureau of Economic Adjustment, Bureau of Labor and other sources, we have collected data on the business, industry and economics of the Flint Hills. These data allow an interesting look at the region's housing and the relationship to the region's economy and workforce.
Regional Data
The Flint Hills Housing Study has collected data from many sources which speak to the many different facets that come to define the housing spectrum. From demographics to economics we have brought together many data points from many different sources. The Flint Hills Housing Study has utilized GIS mapping to also offer the region's first look at opportunity mapping in relation to housing. How accessible are the region's jobs to our area poor and minority groups?
These types of questions can be seen more clearly through the lens of GIS mapping. The results are below.
Looking at the region's housing through the lens of GIS mapping gives us a much more descriptive understanding of how housing interacts with race, poverty and opportunity. Through Census and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) data we paint a much richer picture of the region than simple numbers can paint.
At the core of the Housing Study rests the housing sets from the American Community Survey and the Census Bureau. From the physical condition of the region's housing to the financial burden on owners and renters we dig deeper into what makes the Flint Hills a unique place to live.
Looking at the Metropolitan Statistical Area's urban areas of Junction City and Manhattan through the lens of poverty, helps us to see the landscape of demographics and economics in the Flint Hills.
The nineteen-county project area of the Flint Hills Frontiers has no federally defined Racially or Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty. The Kirwan Institute, out of the University of Ohio State, has produced "Relative" RCAP Maps that give a relative look at the poverty of Kansas in quantiles in relation to HUD's Opportunity Index.
Overlaying the region's fixed-route transit services with some of our other measures of poverty, employment and demographics can give us a richer picture of accessibility and where opportunities might lie in providing better service in the future.
How does poverty look in relation to services, jobs and those daily necessities of life? By taking the region's poverty and comparing those to the placement of our services, helps us to understand how accessibility is a growing concern to our region.
The region's housing is a dynamic system that acts and reacts to market forces, government policies and structural efficiencies and deficiencies. This Housing Demand Analysis is the a first look at the seven-county regional area and the trends that are impacting its housing.
A Brief summary of some of the major findings that are shaping the access and barriers to the region's housing. This Brief examines the results through the various different techniques utilized by the Study, from current and historical housing data and policy, to individual stakeholder interviews and survey instruments.
