Fair Housing Planning Guide
HUD
27 March 2013
Adapted from the Forward
In response to requests from State, State-funded, and Entitlement jurisdictions, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has developed this Fair Housing Planning Guide. Many of you requested information on fulfilling the fair housing requirements of the Consolidated Plan and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Regulations. (The Consolidated Plan Regulation uses the term “affirmatively furthering fair housing” and the CDBG Regulation uses the term “fair housing planning.” This Guide uses “fair housing planning” to refer to the affirmative obligations of both regulations.)
This Guide is written to provide you with information on how to conduct an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI), undertake activities to correct the identified impediments, and the types of documentary records to be maintained. This Guide should be used by State, State-funded, and Entitlement jurisdictions along with applicable HUD regulations pertaining to fair housing.
Volume 1, The Fair Housing Planning Guide, consists of the following:
■ Chapter 1 deals with the historical perspective of fair housing—where did we come from and where are we going.
■ Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 deal with how to prepare an AI, how to undertake activities to correct any identified impediments, and the types of documentary records to be maintained.
Volume 2, The Fair Housing Planning Guide—Grantee Activities
■ Chapters 6 and 7 provide examples of activities that State and Entitlement jurisdictions have undertaken to affirmatively further fair housing, and information on how State and Entitlement jurisdictions may develop similar activities.
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