ORANGE COUNTY FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL (CDBG)

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Public Sector Impediments The purpose of this analysis is to determine, at the individual jurisdictional level, whether fair housing impediments exist. • Impediments to fair housing caused by regulations (or the lack thereof) in zoning ordinances such as: ✓ Definition of Family ✓ Lack of a Reasonable Accommodation Procedure ✓ Treatment of Residential Care Facilities and Group Housing inconsistent with fair housing laws ✓ Lack of regulations to facilitate Transitional and Supportive Housing This Work Task will be completed by the cities and the Fair Housing Council of Orange County. Each City will be provided with HUD's Fair Housing Impediment Study — Review of Public Policies and Practice (Zoning and Planning Codes). The review consists of 18 questions on zoning and planning practices for which responses must be developed. Each City and the will be requested to complete the review in a standard format of Background, Zoning Regulations and Conclusion. The Fair Housing Council will provide the Background analysis which will explain the fair housing concerns raised by the review question. • Impediments to fair housing caused by housing policies (or the lack thereof) in key policy documents. This Work Task will include a review of the housing elements to determine the nature and scope of the fair housing programs included in the element. In addition, the review will determine if funding support is provided to address the needs of protected groups such as housing for the disabled (i.e., home modifications) and female householders with children. Additionally, the review will determine if the cities have identified constraints or impediments such as the lack of a reasonable accommodation procedure. • Review of Housing Authority policies (or the lack thereof) to affirmatively further fair housing. The Public Housing Agency Plans of the housing authorities will be reviewed to determine stated policies and objectives that affirmatively further fair housing. The review will include the Orange County Housing Authority and the Housing Authorities for the cities of Anaheim, Garden Grove and Santa Ana. • Review of Section 8 Housing opportunities outside of minority population concentrations. The purpose of this Work Task is to determine if Section 8 assisted households are residing principally in low income or minority neighborhoods. The Fair Housing Council will request that each Housing Authority identify the number of Section 8 assisted households by census tract. The numerical and percentage distributions then will be compared to the low income and minority population characteristics of each census tract. A correlation analysis will be completed to determine the extent to which Section 8 housing opportunities are located in neighborhoods that are predominantly low income and/or have minority population concentrations. • Review of affordable opportunities outside of minority population concentrations. This Work Task will include the development of an inventory of current and future affordable housing opportunities. The location of affordable housing developments will be determined from local housing elements and data sources such as the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee list of approved projects from 1987 to now. The census tract