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Building an Analysis of Impediments to Affordable Housing (AI)

Building an Analysis of Impediments to Affordable Housing (AI). City of Seattle - Debra Rhinehart, Panelist. Context--Consolidated Plan 2010 Federal Funding. CDBG $13,000,000 HOME $ 4,615,512 HOPWA $ 1,760,439 ESG $ 535,274

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Building an Analysis of Impediments to Affordable Housing (AI)

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  1. Building an Analysis of Impediments to Affordable Housing (AI) City of Seattle - Debra Rhinehart, Panelist

  2. Context--Consolidated Plan 2010 Federal Funding • CDBG $13,000,000 • HOME $ 4,615,512 • HOPWA $ 1,760,439 • ESG $ 535,274 • One time ARRA grants over three years:CDBG-R $ 3,300,000HPRP $ 4,993,052

  3. Who Manages Consolidated Plan Money? • City of Seattle Consolidated Plan funds administered by: • Human Services Department (HSD) • Economic Development Department (OED) • Office of Housing (OH)

  4. Seattle’s 2010 Estimated Housing Funding Includes: • CDBG $ 2,762,293 • HOME $ 4,615,512 • Housing Levy $20,714,286 • Other state, county, private foundation and federal sources • Funding provides for:LI Rental production & preservationHomebuyer assistanceRenter assistance

  5. Seattle Affordable Housing Strategies • Address housing needs of low and extremely low-income households; • Boost supply of housing for moderate wage workers in the city; • Support the City’s Ten-Year Plan to end Homelessness. • Affordable Housing Strategies summary http://www.seattle.gov/housing/planning/docs/SeattleAffordableHousingStrategiesSummary.pdf

  6. Developing the City’s 2008 AI • Review of laws, regulations, policies • Assess effect of laws/policies on location, availability of housing • Evaluate public and private conditions that affect affordable housing • Data analysis for housing inventory in range of unit sizes • Strategies to address identified impediments • Integration of AI into 2009-2012 Consolidated Plan

  7. 2008 AI Challenges • Coordinate the work: consultants and in-house staff in multiple departments • Use of both Census and ACS data, but there are reliability and comparability issues with the two sources; leads to qualifying conclusions • Many types and sources of data, from discrimination complaints to lending data to federal statistics. • Difficult to create coherent conclusions and recommendations to address impediments.

  8. Selected AI Data Sources

  9. AI in the Westchester County decision era • Lessons learned • Will 2010 US Census help? Gives us back census tract and GIS tools • Increasing interest in tools available at City/County level to help with analysis; potential regional collaboration • Role of HUD in assisting grantees to conduct AI • Anticipating rule refinement? • Integration of CHAS/2010 Censusdata? • Consistency in policy and interpretation?

  10. Contacts & Websites • Debra Rhinehart, Senior Planner, CDBG Administration, HSD, (206) 685-0574 debra.rhinehart@seattle.gov • Laura Hewitt Walker, Policy & Program Development, Office of Housinglaura.hewitt@seattle.gov • City of Seattle 2009-2012 Consolidated Plan at http://www.seattle.gov/humanservices/community_development/conplan/default.htm • City of Seattle 2008 Analysis of Impediments to Affordable Housing at http://www.seattle.gov/housing/planning/docs/Analysis_Impediments.pdf

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