# Racially or Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty (R/ECAP)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity/recap/  
**Provider:** Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity — https://apis.io/providers/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity/  
**Base URL:** https://services.arcgis.com/VTyQ9soqVukalItT/arcgis/rest/services/Racially_or_Ethnically_Concentrated_Areas_of_Poverty/FeatureServer  
**Documentation:** https://hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/HUD::racially-or-ethnically-concentrated-areas-of-poverty-r-ecaps

Racially or Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty (R/ECAP) is one of 5 APIs that [Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity](https://apis.io/providers/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include AFFH, ArcGIS, Fair Housing, Geospatial, and Segregation. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

An anonymously callable ArcGIS REST feature service publishing census tract polygons flagged as Racially or Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty, the geography that anchors FHEO's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing analysis. Layer 15 (RECAP) carries the 1990/2000/2010 and current flags; the companion 2020 service exposes layer 16 (RECAP_2020) on Census 2020 geographies. Query and Extract only.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/HUD::racially-or-ethnically-concentrated-areas-of-poverty-r-ecaps/about
- **X-ArcGISServiceMetadata** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity/refs/heads/main/arcgis/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity-recap-featureserver.json
- **X-ArcGISLayerSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity/refs/heads/main/arcgis/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity-recap-layer.json
- **X-RECAP2020Service** — https://services.arcgis.com/VTyQ9soqVukalItT/arcgis/rest/services/Racially_or_Ethnically_Concentrated_Areas_of_Poverty_2020/FeatureServer
- **X-ArcGISServiceMetadata** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity/refs/heads/main/arcgis/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity-recap-2020-featureserver.json

## Other Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity APIs (4)

- [Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity](https://apis.io/apis/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity/)
- [Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) Grantees](https://apis.io/apis/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity/fhap-grantees/)
- [Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) Grantees](https://apis.io/apis/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity/fhip-grantees/)
- [AFFH Data and Mapping Tool (AFFH-T) Services](https://apis.io/apis/fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity/affh-t/)

## Tags

AFFH, ArcGIS, Fair Housing, Geospatial, Segregation

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