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Community Asset Atlas · pilot

Park Place — mapped assets & connections

92 places in view87 known connections15% added by neighbors— live Our Money entities citywideCity-wide atlas →Operator workspace →Live pathway →

92places on the map

87 working connections between them so far — neighbors know about more.

How connected is your neighborhood — whether help, trust, and referrals can actually travel from one place to another.

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What's near me — and who can help with what I need?

What this means for you

Gapcomputed

5 of the top 5 brokers are single points of failure

Julia C. Hester House, Houston Area Urban League workforce center, Target Hunger hold the most shortest paths between assets — and every one is a cut vertex: remove one and part of Park Place goes dark. Funding a second tie around each broker buys redundancy, not duplication.

Gapcomputed

Nothing mapped yet for who represents me

Nobody has put an answer to "Who represents me — and how do I reach them?" on the Park Place map yet. There's almost always somebody doing this quietly — if you know who, add them.

Strengthfixture

14 assets only residents knew about

The barbershop roundtable, the walking club, the growers circle — 14 of 92 mapped assets came from residents, not databases. This is the layer institutional asset maps always miss, and it's where trust already lives.

Opportunitycomputed

45 assets are one introduction from the network

Nobody has recorded who Young Men's College Preparatory Academy, McCrane-Kashmere Gardens Neighborhood Library, Wesley Community Center and 42 more work with yet. One introduction — or one neighbor who already knows — puts them on the map properly.

Gapcomputed

Introduce Kinder pedestrian bridge (planned) and Houston Area Urban League workforce center

No ties connect connection and economic assets anywhere in Park Place. These two are the best-connected candidates on each side — one working relationship here opens a whole class of referrals.

Gapcomputed

Introduce Kinder pedestrian bridge (planned) and Senior storytellers circle

No ties connect connection and individual assets anywhere in Park Place. These two are the best-connected candidates on each side — one working relationship here opens a whole class of referrals.

Strengthcomputed

72% of ties cross asset classes — rare bridging strength

63 of 87 ties connect different kinds of assets (bridging capital), against 24 within-class bonds. The network's problem is quantity of ties, not kind — new ties of any sort raise cohesion.

Opportunityfixture

35 grassroots groups, 3 economic anchors

Park Place runs on associations and resident circles, but few large employers or investors are wired into that energy. A business that sponsors here doesn't start a network — it plugs into one.

Strengthfixture

A live training → placement → employer pipeline

Phillis Wheatley High School and WorkTexas trade training center and HCC Northeast Campus and Texas Southern University and Fifth Ward solar workforce hub (Vulnerable to Vibrant) train, Houston Area Urban League workforce center places, and 4 employers hire — 9 working hand-offs already mapped. New employers can join a pipeline that's already moving.

Opportunitycomputed

12 civic voice assets aren't talking to each other

Phillis Wheatley High School, Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church, Lyons Avenue barbershop roundtable all serve civic voice in Park Place with no recorded relationship between them. One referral agreement turns parallel effort into a pathway.

Strengthfixture

9 funding relationships currently flow through the ward

Capital already moves along mapped channels — façade grants, small-business lending, trail investment. A new funder can co-invest along proven routes instead of building delivery from scratch.

Participatory layer

This map grows when neighbors add to it

The barbershop roundtable, the walking club, the lot that should be a garden — the assets institutions miss are the ones residents know best. This map is co-produced: 3 neighbor-visible assets are on it already, and every contribution makes Park Place more visible to itself.

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Park Place — mapped assets & connections

This map grows when neighbors add to it