From: HUD USER News
HUD's Office of Policy Development
& Research is pleased
to announce a new research tool available
on HUD USER,
through an agreement with the U.S.
Postal Service
(USPS). Updated quarterly, the HUD
Aggregated USPS
Administrative Data on Address Vacancies
reports the
total number of:
* Residential and commercial addresses;
* Addresses vacant for 90 days or longer;
* Addresses for unoccupied businesses
or homes
under construction; and
* Addresses in urban areas identified
by a carrier
as unlikely to be active for some time.
In addition to this information, the
data set reports
the number of days an address spends
in each category.
The numbers are available at the census
tract level,
allowing researchers and practitioners
to track
neighborhood change on a quarterly
basis. Available
at www.huduser.gov/datasets/usps.html,
this valuable
research tool currently contains data
covering all of
2006 and the first quarter of 2007.
This information is potentially powerful,
in that it
represents the universe of all addresses
in the United
States. HUD is interested in what researchers
and
practitioners are learning from the
data. Comments and
questions regarding the data set should
be sent via
email, with the subject line "USPS
Data,"
to Todd
Richardson.
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