FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: ASSISTED RENTAL HOUSING

Geodataset Name:       GC_ASSISTED_HOUSING_FEB09
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         2116
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains Assisted Rental Housing Information for the State of Florida current to February 2009. 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. This data is meant to be used for planning purposes only and is not intended to represent a 100% inventory of assisted rental housing. This layer is an update of the previously released FGDL "GC_ASSISTEDHOUSING.SHP" 2003 layer.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    University of Florida GeoPlan Center
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     N/A
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20090216 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: 20090216 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: GC_ASSISTED_HOUSING_FEB09.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
STATUS
1 String
SCORE
2 SmallInteger
Match_type
2 String
SIDE
1 String
Match_addr
83 String
NAME
54 String
STREET_ADD
75 String
CITY
30 String
ZIP_CODE
8 Double
COUNTY
20 String
T_UNITS
8 Double
A_UNITS
8 Double
OCCSTATUS
28 String
HOUSINGPRG
100 String
POP_SERVED
50 String
USNG_FL_1K
10 String
LAT_DD
8 Double
LONG_DD
8 Double
DESCRIPT
54 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
SHAPE
4 Geometry
AUTOID
4 Integer

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

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.

Match_type A code showing how an adddress was matched.
A = Automatic

M = Manual

PP = Pick by point. Interactive map was used to place point.


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).

Match_addr The address that the matched location actually resides based on the information of the matched candidate.

NAME 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.

T_UNITS The total units available in the development.

A_UNITS The assisted units in the development.

OCCSTATUS The status of the assisted housing facility.

HOUSINGPRG The program types available at the assisted housing facility.

POP_SERVED The type of family served by the assisted housing facility.

USNG_FL_1K Facility's 1-kilometer United States National Grid (USNG) address. The USNG is an alpha-numeric reference system based on the UTM coordinate system and is similar to the Military Grid Reference System. Use of the USNG ensures a uniform grid mapping and positional reporting system for search and rescue, emergency planning, response, and recovery. How to Read a United States National Grid (USNG) Spatial Address Website - http://www.fgdc.gov/usng/how-to-read-usng/index_html

LAT_DD Latitude in decimal degree

LONG_DD Longitude in decimal degree

DESCRIPT FGDL added field based on the field NAME

FGDLAQDATE FGDL added field based on date downloaded from source

SHAPE Feature geometry.

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan


USER NOTES:
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity 
of the original data layer's topology
This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to 
our knowledge.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.
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.

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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.

The data was created to serve as base information for use in GIS systems 
for a variety of planning and analytical purposes.

This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy 
has not been verified by GeoPlan

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not 
been verified by GeoPlan

The Shimberg Center for Housing Studies has compiled information on housing
and demographic information for the convenience of consumers, policy makers, 
planners, program administrators and other interested parties throughout Florida.
The Shimberg Center is committed to ensuring that the data in the Florida Housing 
Data Clearinghouse is as accurate as possible, consistent with any limitations on 
the inherent accuracy of the original data sources.  Although every effort has been 
made to ensure that information is comprehensive and accurate, errors and omissions 
may exist. The Clearinghouse and the information included therein is provided on an 
"as is" basis.  The Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing, the Florida Housing Data 
Clearinghouse, the University of Florida, or any of their respective faculty, staff, or 
administration specifically disclaim any warranty, either expressed or implied, including 
but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular 
use.  The entire risk as to quality and performance is with the user.  Persons who 
notice information that is incomplete, incorrect, or out of date should contact the 
Shimberg Center at (800) 259-5705.

The Florida Geographic Data Library is a collection of Geospatial Data
compiled by the University of Florida GeoPlan Center with support from
the Florida Department of Transportation. GIS data available in FGDL is
collected from various state, federal, and other agencies (data sources)
who are data stewards, producers, or publishers. The data available in
FGDL may not be the most current version of the data offered by the
data source. University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no guarantees
about the currentness of the data and suggests that data users check
with the data source to see if more recent versions of the data exist.

Furthermore, the GIS data available in the FGDL are provided 'as is'.
The University of Florida GeoPlan Center makes no warranties, guaranties
or representations as to the truth, accuracy or completeness of the data
provided by the data sources. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center
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of the materials, either expressly or implied, including but not limited
to any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose, or non-infringement. The University of Florida GeoPlan Center
shall not be liable for any damages suffered as a result of using,
modifying, contributing or distributing the materials.

A note about data scale: 

Scale is an important factor in data usage.  Certain scale datasets
are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modeling 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
multi-county or regional level.
1:125000 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 analysis. 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 webpage at:
http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

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 February of 2009. 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.

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 reformatted to a Database File
 Format. The addresses were geocoded against ARC Logistics Route GDT
 Roads Shapefile created using FGDL Albers HPGN map projection.

Original file from Shimberg contained 2262 records. There were problems 
with the geocoding of 518 records due to improperly formed addresses or
incorrect zip codes. Of these 518, 373 were corrected. The remaining 145
records were omitted from the dataset. Final data contains 2116 records.

- All fields upcased
- Added USNG1K field
- Added LAT_DD field
- Added LONG_DD field
- Added DESCRIPT based on NAME
- Added FGDLAQDATE based on date downloaded from source
Process Date: 20090225

Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. Process Date: 20090417
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 SOURCE CONTACT (S):

Name:
Abbr. Name:
Address:


Phone:

Web site:
E-mail:
Contact Person:
         Phone:
        E-mail:
Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse
FHDC
203 Rinker Hall, PO Box 115703
Gainesville, FL
32611
(352) 273-1192

http://www.flhousingdata.shimberg.ufl.edu/ fhdc-comments@shimberg.ufl.edu

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