FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2005
TITLE: ASSISTED RENTAL HOUSING
Geodataset Name: GC_ASSISTED_HOUSING Geodataset Type: SHAPE Geodataset Feature: POINT
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains 2003 Assisted Rental Housing Information for the State of Florida. Assisted Rental Housing addresses were gathered from the Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse. This dataset contains fields denoting the physical address, housing program type, and population information for assisted rental units located in Florida.
DATA SOURCE(S): Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse (FHDC) SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS: N/A DATE OF AUTOMATION OR SOURCE: Source 2003, Automated 2003 GEODATASET EXTENT: State of FloridaFEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:
Datafile Name: GC_ASSISTED_HOUSING.DBF ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE PRECISION SHAPE 6 SHAPEPOINT 0 STATUS 1 CHARACTER 0 SCORE 4 DECIMAL 0 SIDE 1 CHARACTER 0 X 19 DECIMAL 5 Y 19 DECIMAL 5 DEVELOPMEN 54 CHARACTER 0 STREET_ADD 56 CHARACTER 0 CITY 24 CHARACTER 0 ZIP_CODE 13 DECIMAL 0 COUNTY 14 CHARACTER 0 TOTAL_UNIT 11 DECIMAL 0 ASSISTED_U 15 DECIMAL 0 OCCUPANCY_ 28 CHARACTER 0 HOUSING_PR 68 CHARACTER 0 POPULATION 27 CHARACTER 0 DESCRIPT 55 CHARACTER 0
FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:
ITEM ITEM DESCRIPTION SHAPE Data attribute inherent to the ESRI shapefile format, which defines the data as a point, polyline, or polygon. STATUS ESRI item which denotes the status of the geocoded address (whether it was matched or not). SCORE ESRI item which denotes the score with which the address was matched to a feature in the reference data. SIDE ESRI item which denotes the side of the street to which the address was matched (for geocoding service styles that can match an address to a particular side of a street). X ESRI item which denotes the X coordinate of the geocoded feature. Y ESRI item which denotes the Y coordinate of the geocoded feature. DEVELOPMEN The name of the development that contains the assisted housing facility. STREET_ADD The physical street address of the assisted housing facility. CITY The city in which the assisted housing facility is located. ZIP_CODE The five digit Zip code for the assisted housing facility. COUNTY The name of the county the assisted housing facility is located in. TOTAL_UNIT The total units available in the development. ASSISTED_U The assisted units in the development. OCCUPANCY_ The status of the assisted housing facility. - NOT READY FOR OCCUPANCY - READY FOR OCCUPANCY HOUSING_PR The program types available at the assisted housing facility. - AFFORDABLE HOUSING LOAN / HOUSING CREDITS / SAIL - AFFORDABLE HOUSING LOAN - BONDS / FDIC / SAIL - BONDS / GUARANTEE / HOME / HOUSING CREDITS / HUD RISK SHARING - BONDS / GUARANTEE / HOME / HOUSING CREDITS - BONDS / GUARANTEE / HOUSING CREDITS / HUD RISK SHARING / SAIL - BONDS / GUARANTEE / HOUSING CREDITS / HUD RISK SHARING - BONDS / GUARANTEE / HOUSING CREDITS / SAIL' 'BONDS / GUARANTEE / HOUSING CREDITS - BONDS / GUARANTEE - BONDS / HOME / HOUSING CREDITS - BONDS / HOME - BONDS / HOUSING CREDITS / HUD MULTI-FAMILY / SAIL - BONDS / HOUSING CREDITS / HUD MULTI-FAMILY - BONDS / HOUSING CREDITS / HUD RISK SHARING / SAIL - BONDS / HOUSING CREDITS / HUD RISK SHARING - BONDS / HOUSING CREDITS / SAIL - BONDS / HOUSING CREDITS - BONDS / HUD MULTI-FAMILY / SAIL - BONDS / HUD MULTI-FAMILY - BONDS / SAIL - BONDS - DEMONSTRATION PROJECT - FDIC / HOME - FDIC / HOUSING CREDITS - FDIC / HUD MULTI-FAMILY - FDIC - GUARANTEE / HOUSING CREDITS / HUD RISK SHARING / SAIL - GUARANTEE / HOUSING CREDITS / SAIL - GUARANTEE / HOUSING CREDITS - GUARANTEE / HUD RISK SHARING / SAIL - GUARANTEE - HOME / HOUSING CREDITS / HUD MULTI-FAMILY - HOME / HOUSING CREDITS / SAIL - HOME / HOUSING CREDITS - HOME / HUD MULTI-FAMILY - HOME / PRE-DEVELOPMENT LOAN / SAIL - HOME - HOPE VI / HOUSING CREDITS - HOUSING CREDITS / HUD MULTI-FAMILY / SAIL - HOUSING CREDITS / HUD MULTI-FAMILY / SECTION 515 - HOUSING CREDITS / HUD MULTI-FAMILY - HOUSING CREDITS / HUD RISK SHARING / SAIL - HOUSING CREDITS / PRE-DEVELOPMENT LOAN / SAIL - HOUSING CREDITS / RURAL HOUSING SERVICE / SECTION 515 - HOUSING CREDITS / SAIL / SECTION 515 - HOUSING CREDITS - HUD MULTI-FAMILY / SAIL - HUD MULTI-FAMILY / SECTION 515 - HUD MULTI-FAMILY - N/A - PRE-DEVELOPMENT LOAN / SAIL - SAIL - SECTION 514/516 - SECTION 515 POPULATION The type of family served by the assisted housing facility. - CONGREGATE / ELDERLY - DISABLED / ELDERLY - DISABLED - ELDERLY / DISABLED - ELDERLY - ELDERLY-DISABLED - FAMILY - FARMWORKER - FISHER / FARMWORKER - FISHER - N/A - URBAN INFILL / DISABLED - URBAN INFILL DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on the field DEVELOPMEN.
USER NOTES:
This dataset is a combination of assisted housing facility addresses from the FHDC Website online. Below is information taken directly from the Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse about the Inventory of Assisted Rental Housing http://www.flhousingdata.shimberg.ufl.edu/ahi/about_ahi.html The Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse provides the Inventory of Assisted Rental Housing to help renters find decent, affordable apartments, as well as to better enable state and local government policy makers, planners, and administrators to analyze information essential to Florida's citizens. What Properties are Included in the Inventory of Assisted Housing? Listings in the Inventory include developments with assisted rental units that may be owned by government, nonprofit or for- profit organizations. [Please note that information on developments owned by public housing authorities is not yet complete. Information on these developments may be obtained from contacting public housing authorities in the area of interest. A separate database on this website gives contact information for each of Florida's public housing authorities.] . In order to provide the most comprehensive information on assisted developments in Florida, we have defined assistance broadly to include below market financing, tax credits, grants, loan guarantees, federal and state risk sharing programs, and tenant subsidies. While most assisted developments have certain income restrictions in place, others do not. For example, some properties assisted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development do not have income restrictions. However, they were developed under strict unit cost limitations; therefore, the resulting housing product is typically affordable to households at lower income levels. The Inventory is searchable based on the city or county in which developments are located. It is also searchable based on population served and the program that provided funding for the development. The Inventory lists developments built with various housing programs that come from federal, state, and local government sources. Currently, the Inventory includes developments funded by programs administered by the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service, and local housing finance authorities. Tenant Eligibility Requirements Tenant eligibility requirements vary depending upon the different programs that have been used to fund a particular development. Often, these requirements include income restrictions. However, some properties do not have explicit income restrictions. Eligibility requirements for a specific property may be obtained by contacting that property. What Information Does the Inventory of Assisted Housing Include? Entries in the Inventory database include the following types of information: Name, Address, City, County, and Zip Code: We have included the most recently available information on the name of each development, along with its street address, city, county, and zip code. Total Units: This represents the total number of apartments within each development. Some developments have more total units than total assisted units. (See below for a description of assisted units). This may occur because one or more units are reserved for employees of the property or because some units do not have income restrictions associated with them. Total Assisted Units: This represents the total number of units that have received some form of financial assistance for construction and/or operation or for which income restrictions within a larger development apply. The financial assistance may have been obtained through federal, state or local government sources. In some cases, information on the number of assisted units was not available. These developments will have N/A in the total assisted units column. Population or Target Area Served: Developments may be designated to serve families, the elderly, and certain other groups that are described below. Note that when no information was available on the population served by a particular development, N/A appears in the population served column. Family: A development designated family serves the general population. These developments may serve any household of qualifying income, including those with only one person. They may also serve the elderly, the disabled or other special needs populations. Elderly: Apartments in elderly developments are typically reserved for those 62 years of age or older. Some properties that serve older persons may include householders who are 55 years of age or more. Disabled: Some developments serve households that may include one or more persons with disabilities. These disabilities may be physical disabilities, but may also denote properties primarily serving individuals with mental disabilities. Note to Users: Datasets provided by various organizations use the term disabled, rather than persons with disabilities. Although disabled is no longer the preferred terminology, we have used it if data have been recorded that way by the source organization. Elderly-disabled: Some developments are intended to serve persons who are 62 years of age or older and have a disability. These properties are shown in the Inventory as Elderly-disabled. This is a different category from Elderly Disabled, which denotes developments in which persons who are either 62 years of age or more or who have a disability may reside, regardless of age. Please see note above regarding use of the term disabled rather than persons with disabilities. Fisher and/or Farm Worker: This housing is provided by programs administered by the Florida Housing Finance Corporation that serve commercial fishing workers and farm workers. Due to data limitations, we are unable to determine at this time whether a property serves primarily fishing workers or farm workers. See also the description of Farm Worker and Section 514/516 below. Farm Worker: Developments that are designated as Farm Worker serve farm workers and are provided by funding administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service. The USDA also refers to these properties as Labor Housing. Congregate: Developments designated as Congregate provide central dining facilities that may be designed to serve elderly, disabled or other special needs populations. Intermediate Care: Intermediate care facilities are provided for those who may need convalescent care. Urban Infill: The Florida Housing Finance Corporation designates certain properties as Urban Infill. These developments make use of existing urban infrastructure and may contribute to community revitalization efforts. Where available, we provide this information to the user. Program: Program information tells the user what program or programs have been used in the construction or rehabilitation of the development. A brief description of program information contained within the Inventory appears below. Affordable Housing Loan. This describes a loan made by the Florida Housing Finance Corporation. Demonstration Project. This is a designation for certain developments funded through programs administered by the Florida Housing Finance Corporation. Demonstration Program funds have been used to provide housing for various special needs groups, such as people with developmental disabilities, farm workers, extremely low income or homeless Floridians, and elders in need of assisted living. FDIC. Properties with the FDIC designation are developments that have been sold by the FDIC-sometimes at below market value-in exchange for the new owner's legal commitment to include some income-restricted units in the development. This requirement is binding on future owners of the property. The requirement to offer a certain number of units on an income-restricted basis is usually for a minimum of 40 to 50 years. Guarantee. Developments with a Guarantee designation have received assistance in the form of loan guarantees from the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, sometimes in conjunction with a guarantee offered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. HOME. Multifamily developments with the HOME designation are provided through funds provided to the State of Florida and certain larger local governments by the federal government. State HOME funds are administered by the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, while local funds are administered at the local level. Housing Credits. Housing Credits refers to a tax incentive program known as the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. Each year, the federal government allocates housing tax credits to the states for new construction or substantial rehabilitation of rental housing based on state population. When a for-profit or nonprofit developer is successful in the state-wide competition for Low Income Housing Tax Credit resources, they typically sell the tax credits to large investors in order to raise equity capital for the construction or substantial rehabilitation of rental housing serving households at or below 60 percent of Area Median Income. Bonds. Developments financed with bonds typically make use of tax- exempt financing available through state and local governments. The federal government limits the amount of tax-exempt bonds that can be issued within a state in any given year. This maximum is based upon state population. Non-Profit. This denotes developments that non-profit organizations have developed. Although the non-profit designation is not a program, data provided by the Florida Housing Finance Corporation sometimes provide this type of information in the program designation. In turn, we provide this to the user in order to supply the most complete information possible. Pre-Development Loan. These are properties that have received loan assistance in the pre-development phase. These loans are generally only available to non-profits, community-based organizations, local governments, and public housing authorities. HUD Risk Sharing. The Risk Sharing program is a joint effort between the Florida Housing Finance Corporation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Properties with this designation have received some form of loan guarantee through this cooperative effort between state and federal government. SAIL. Properties with the SAIL designation have received financing through the State Apartment Incentive Loan administered by the Florida Housing Finance Corporation. SAIL funds are provided through the State Housing Trust Fund. Section 8 New Construction. In the Inventory database, Section 8 New Construction refers to housing built under a now-inactive federal program titled the Section 8 New Construction and Substantial Rehabilitation program. These properties were originally built under contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Rural Housing Service. This designation appears when a development has been financed, in whole or in part, by funds administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service (formerly known as the Farmers' Home Administration). Section 515. Section 515 properties are funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service (formerly known as the Farmers' Home Administration). They provide housing in rural areas and smaller cities. Note that in some counties, properties designated as 515 may primarily serve farm workers. Section 514/516. Section 514/516 refers to loans and grants administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service. These properties provide rental housing for farm laborers. They may provide housing in rural areas, smaller cities, and in urban areas where needed to house those who work on nearby farms. In some areas, farm workers are also housed in properties financed through the Rural Housing Service's Section 515 program. HUD Multi-Family. Properties with this designation are provided through programs administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. These properties include those funded under the following programs: Section 202, Section 811, Section 236, Section 8 New Construction and Rehabilitation, Sections 221(d)3 and 221(d) 4. Note that the Section 236 and Section 8 New Construction and Rehabilitation programs are no longer active, although many properties funded in the past continue to provide affordable housing in Florida. HOPE VI. HOPE VI properties are part of a federal program administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that is designed to demolish the most dilapidated public housing in the nation and replace it with new, lower-density development. Local public housing authorities compete nationally for HOPE VI resources and may also compete for state-administered resources such as housing credits. Note that at present, our data for HOPE VI developments are incomplete. We are working with HUD to expand the information we make available via the Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse. See Notes for Users. The information contained in the Inventory of Assisted Rental Housing is meant to be a general guide to affordable rental housing provided through various public programs. Although every effort has been made to ensure that it is comprehensive, errors and omissions may exist. Please alert the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing to any discrepancy by contacting Anne Lockwood Williamson at arwill@ufl.edu or (800) 259-5705. What is Geocoding? Geocoding is term used to describe the act of address matching. Geocoding is the process of finding a geographic location (x, y point) for an address (such as street number and name, city, state, and ZIP Code) on a map. Geocoding is based off the typical address scheme for the US, in which one side of the street contains even house numbers while the other side of the street contains odd house numbers. The geocoding process uses an algorithm to find the geographic location of addresses. First, a street segment is identified using the zip code and street name. Next, the geographic location of the address is matched using the building number to determine how far down the street and on which side of the street the building is located. Geocoding Accuracy The locational accuracy of geocoded addresses may vary from urban to rural areas due to the algorithm used to generate the geographic locations of addresses. The algorithm assumes that the size of parcels are equivalent along a road route. This assumption tends to be more consistent in urban areas, where the size of parcels vary less than in rural areas. Consequently, the results of geocoded addresses in urban areas are usually more reliable than those in rural areas. For example, the locational accuracy of rural addresses can be slightly off because some parcels along a rural route may be 15 acres while others may be 2.5 acres, but the geocoding algorithm assumes that the addresses are distributed evenly along the route. A note concerning data scale: Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modelling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data. 1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the county level. 1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such as property parcel boundaries. 1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the multicounty or regional level. 1:250000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the regional or state level or larger. Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data before using it for projects or analyses. Every effort has been made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact section of this documentation. For more information regarding scale and accuracy, see our web pages at: http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html
FGDL QUALITY ASSURANCE STATUS:
Process Steps for FHDC Assisted Housing Facility Locations: -Downloaded Excel spreadsheet from the following FHDC website: http://www.flhousingdata.shimberg.ufl.edu/apps/ahi/asst_housing_inventory.pl -The information downloaded was then reformated to a Database File Format. The addresses were geocoded against ARC Logistics Route GDT Roads Shapefile created using FGDL Albers HPGN map projection (See "Map Projection Parameters" below).
REFERENCES:
Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse Inventory of Assisted Rental Housing http://www.flhousingdata.shimberg.ufl.edu/apps/ahi/asst_housing_inventory.pl
DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
Assisted Housing Facility locations were obtained from the FHDC Website in 2003. GeoPlan downloaded this data in an excel format and converted it to a dbf. The dbf was then geocoded against ARC Logistics Route GDT Roads and converted into a shapefile with the FGDL Albers HPGN map projection. (See "Map Projection Parameters" below).
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:
Projection ALBERS Datum HPGN Units METERS Spheroid GRS1980 1st Standard Parallel 24 0 0.000 2nd Standard Parallel 31 30 0.000 Central Meridian -84 00 0.000 Latitude of Projection's Origin 24 0 0.000 False Easting (meters) 400000.00000 False Northing (meters) 0.00000
DATA SOURCES CONTACT(S):
Name: Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse Abbr.name: FHDC Phone: (352) 273 1171 Web site: http://www.flhousingdata.shimberg.ufl.edu/
FGDL CONTACT:
Name: Florida Geographic Data Library Abbr. Name: FGDL Address: Florida Geographic Data Library 431 Architecture PO Box 115706 Gainesville, FL 32611-5706 Web site: http://www.fgdl.org Contact FGDL: Technical Support: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfeed.html FGDL Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfaq.html FGDL Mailing Lists: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdl-l.html For FGDL Software: http://www.fgdl.org/software.html