So I decided to start a baby stub of something sorta in the vein of what I mean when I say hack away at something.
I wrote this little program which runs one-way of thinking about these policies against one way of thinking about the city/community you're working in.
You'll need IDLE https://www.python.org/downloads/
I've emailed this to you, but I'm actually putting this code up on github. https://github.com/
Search for "policy-prototype" and it should come up. Poke around and see if you can figure out how to download it. Bonus points for actually "cloning the repo" onto the laptop!
If you actually start getting carried away with this stuff I'll show you how to interact with git in a basic way. This is neat because then we can work together on projects and I can more easily see your code so I can be of better help. Always feel free to ping me with questions, I love this shit.