UCLA's Advanced Policy Institute created the Neighborhood Knowledge California (NKCA) as an easy-access Web site with demographic, housing, and lending data.  The California portal offers free access, local information, research tools, and capacity for data uploads for the entire state.   NKCA intends to serve as statewide, interactive website that assembles and maps a variety of databases that can be used in neighborhood research. Its aim is to promote greater equity in housing and banking policy by providing a set of web-based tools for documenting and analyzing trends. In addition, it functions as a geographic repository for users to map their own communities by uploading their own datasets.  NKCA will seek to address this divide by assembling a broad range of indicators on a statewide scale to highlight trends in public and private investment and the community-level impacts associated with these trends, visually mapping indicators in areas such as mortgage lending, population, and housing.