RISC x CUP Present STORIES+DATA = POWER
RISC has partnered with the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) to produce an informational poster about how community organizers can use the EDDE to advocate for their neighborhood. The physical publication folds out into a full-size poster and will be distributed at future RISC-organized community events.
Equitable Development Data Explorer (EDDE)
What’s EDDE?
The new Equitable Development Data Explorer (EDDE) is an interactive data tool and map developed by the City that enables users to explore many demographic, social, economic, and housing conditions by race and compare displacement risk across neighborhoods. The following video by NYC Planning provides an introduction to the tool, which can be accessed at the link below.
EDDE Trainings
Want to use EDDE to put together data about your community? The Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development (ANHD), a RISC member organization, has developed a series of training videos on how to use the tool to explore neighborhood data.
Connection to Rezonings
As of June 1, 2022, property owners are required to produce a Racial Equity Report (RER) for certain land use changes, including rezonings. RERs must include a community profile generated from the EDDE tool. The City’s Zoning Application Portal (ZAP) enables users to browse all public land use documents related to a project, including the RER.
NYC’s Public Review Process
What’s ULURP?
Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, is the City’s review process for land use decisions that need additional approvals from a City agency. Under ULURP, proposals for changes to the existing land uses have to first be brought before the local community board. The Center for Urban Pedagogy’s ULURP Guidebook (also available in Spanish) walks readers through the process and how to get involved as a member of the public.
Graphic designed by Dome for Center of Urban Pedagogy.
Resources from RISC Member Organizations
Data: ANHD’s Displacement Alert Project (DAP) is a set of data tools to help users understand displacement. DAP includes a portal where you can look up details about your building, a citywide displacement risk map, and monthly reports on high-risk rent stabilized buildings by Community District.
Community visioning: ANHD’s Land Use Toolkit offers a roadmap for creating community land use principles, a set of benchmarks that clearly lays out a community’s needs and which types of land use, development, and capital investment proposals would best meet them.
Data: MAS and RPA’s SITE x SITE project explores the concept of “soft sites” in the City’s land use review process. Soft sites are sites (vacant or not) where development is not currently proposed but where it may reasonably be expected to occur in the near future. The website includes a primer with information on what “development” entails and the public review process.
Educational materials: MAS produced a set of introductory handouts on topics ranging from an overview of City processes that govern decision making to opportunities for public input in land use + preservation projects.
Neighborhood-based technical assistance: Banana Kelly provides direct services ranging from rental assistance and case management to ESL courses to residents in the South Bronx.
Racial Impact Study Coalition 