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Affirmatively furthering fair housing

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Affirmatively furthering fair housing

Overview

Local Housing Solutions includes a range of resources that can help cities, towns and counties take meaningful action to overcome patterns of segregation and create inclusive communities.

Brief

Affirmatively furthering fair housing

All jurisdictions that receive HUD funding are required to affirmatively further fair housing. This means taking meaningful actions to overcome patterns of segregation and foster inclusive communities free from barriers that restrict access to opportunity based on protected characteristics of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, having a disability, and having a specific type of disability. This brief describes policies in the Housing Policy Library that can be used to support place-based strategies that increase opportunity in racially or ethnically concentrated areas of poverty and mobility strategies that help to overcome residential segregation.

Selected local housing policies

Housing choice vouchers
Inclusionary zoning
Increased voucher payment standards in high-cost areas
Landlord recruitment and retention
Legal assistance for victims of discrimination
Low income housing tax credit
Mobility counseling for housing choice voucher holders
Project-basing of housing choice vouchers
Source of income laws

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