New Data Set on Vacancies

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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