[Bedon292]

"on community racial disparities"

Would this not defund access to census data? As census data shows disparities in race?

Edit: OK, after having talked to a buddy about this, it looks like this is address directly at HUD, and would not affect census data as that is under commerce.

[jofer]

I think the "notwithstanding additional laws" caveat will protect census data. There are a number of things that require the collection, storage, analysis, and dissemination of census data by law. It's definitely murky, though.

[stuarto]

My read is that they aren't (yet) proposing defunding the data, "just the maps" e.g. visualizations that make it accessible. Nothing (yet) stopping a public-interest project from hosting the same information on an open platform.

[Bedon292]

"design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information"

From my perspective that says they cannot even create the data, let alone give anyone access to it.