Part III
Mapping Needs, Gaps, and Vulnerabilities
- 12 Needs Mapping Defines community needs, distinguishes expressed from hidden needs and immediate from structural needs, examines quantitative and qualitative indicators, and establishes ethical principles for identifying and communicating needs without reinforcing deficit narratives.
- 13 Service Gap Mapping Examines how to identify and map service gaps including access, awareness, eligibility, capacity, and structural barriers. Covers service deserts, transportation obstacles, and cost barriers while maintaining ethical accountability to underserved populations.
- 14 Vulnerability and Risk Mapping Examines how communities identify, visualize, and respond to concentrations of vulnerability and risk across social, economic, health, housing, climate, and disaster dimensions — while addressing the ethical tensions inherent in making vulnerability visible.
- 15 Equity and Access Mapping Examines how Community Mapping reveals unequal access to services, opportunities, and public space. Explores equity mapping for disability, age, gender, race, and rural contexts, and teaches methods for measuring and visualizing access disparities.
- 16 Housing and Homelessness Mapping Mapping housing affordability, rental supply, homelessness, shelter access, and encampments — with attention to hidden homelessness, ethical mapping practices, consent, and the risk that maps can enable harm as well as help.
- 17 Food Systems Mapping Mapping food security, sovereignty, access, infrastructure, and local resilience through the lens of spatial equity and community control over food systems.
- 18 Health and Wellbeing Mapping Examines how to map health and wellbeing through social determinants, healthcare access, mental health, harm reduction, recreation, environment, isolation, safety, public health data, and ethics. Synthesizes Part III's focus on needs, gaps, and vulnerabilities.