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title: "Block-Level Heat Shelter Map" topics:

• "civic-tech"
• "climate"
• "neighborhoods" tags:
• "mapping"
• "resilience"
• "care" summary: "Map the buildings, porches, churches, laundromats, and libraries that can safely become short-notice heat shelters on a single block."

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Block-Level Heat Shelter Map

Map the buildings, porches, churches, laundromats, and libraries that can safely become short-notice heat shelters on a single block. It connects to mutual-aid-signal-board, neighborhood-experiment-ledger, civic-budget-copilot.

Working moves

• Tag every candidate shelter with open hours, cooling capacity, restroom access, and whether it needs a human keyholder.
• Store volunteer check-in instructions next to each shelter so the note becomes operational during a heat alert.
• Link recurring heat closures and equipment failures back into the map so the directory gets stronger each season.

Why it matters

This should eventually connect to a public-facing ledger of neighborhood experiments so successful heat responses can be reused instead of rediscovered.