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Housing Committee

	Map Title: 2011 Home Vacancy Rate by State Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has an interactive map tool that allows you to examine economic data by state.
	Map Title: State Homeless Map, 2011 Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness produced a map showing the number of homeless people in each state along with a variety of other statistics and data.
	Map Title: Racial Make-up, Hartford Interactive: No Printable: Yes Description: Someone took 2010 Census data and composed a look at the racial make-up for Hartford and its suburbs. Red dots represent 25 Caucasians, blue dots represent 25 African-Americans, green dots represent 25 Asian-Americans, orange represents 25 Hispanic people, yellow is 25 people who fall into another category. The large view gives a very close-up look, down to each street.
	Map Title: Median Monthly Rent, 2005 - 2009 Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: Courtesy of the New York Times and the Census Bureau, see median monthly rents for each Census tract (units that are usually smaller than a town) and how much it changed from 2000.
	Map Title: Home Price Appreciation over 4 Quarters Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: You can also select a state to see how each county has performed over the last 12 months.
	Map Title: Average Home Listing Price for US Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: Also allows you to drill down to the ZIP code level.
	Map Title: 2011 Homeless Counts Media Map Interactive: Yes Printable: Yes Description: Links to media and Continuum of Care reports on the number of homeless people.

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