Transcript The Fair Housing Act at 45: Actualizing the Duty to

The Fair Housing Act at 45:
Actualizing the Duty to
Affirmatively Further Fair Housing
David Rusk
Friday, April 12, 2013
University of Maryland Carey School of Law
500 W. Baltimore St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
“Housing Policy
IS
School Policy”
By Dr. Heather Schwartz
The Century Foundation
http://www.tcf.org/assets/downloads/tcfSchwartz.pdf
Factors for a
Municipal Opportunity Index
Good jobs
Good schools
Good tax base
Good neighborhoods
35%
35%
10%
20%
Municipal Opportunity Index (MOI)
•
Competitively rates Philadelphia and
its 237 suburban cities, boroughs,
and townships by key characteristics
•
Divides 237 towns into five groups of
near-equal total population (each
quintile = 492,000 residents)
The region is divided into:
1
23
37
43
• Central City (Philadelphia)
• Maximum Opportunity Towns
• High Opportunity Towns
• Medium Opportunity Towns
• Low Opportunity Towns
75
• Minimum Opportunity
Towns
JOB SPRAWL
• From 1998 to 2006, city and inner ring
suburbs lost 14,000 jobs (-1.5%)
• While outer ring suburbs added 160,690 jobs
(+11.4%).
• Billions of dollars of infrastructure investment
supported this growth and bypassed the
towns in the middle.
SCHOOLS
Free And Reduced-price Meals (FARM)
percentages by MOI category
– Maximum opportunity towns
– High opportunity towns
– Medium opportunity towns
– Low opportunity towns
– Minimum opportunity towns
– Central City
6%
7%
12%
20%
37%
77%
Distribution of Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs)
in Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties in 2008
by Municipal Opportunity Index Category
90%
82%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
2%
2%
Maximum
Opportunity
High Opportunity
8%
7%
Medium
Opportunity
Low Opportunity
0%
Minimum
Opportunity
Estimated number of affordable rentals in
maximum- and high-opportunity towns
12,000
10,000
Total Affordable Units Below
the County Public Housing
Authority Current Average
Monthly Gross Rent
8,000
6,000
Housing Choice Voucher
Rentals in 2008
4,000
2,000
0
Chester, 0.4%
Delaware, 0.4%
Montgomery,
1.5%
Total tax revenue as pct of GDP