Do Land Use Plans Affirmatively Further Fair Housing?: Measuring Progress.

ABSTRACT:

Problem research strategy and findings

The 1968 Fair Housing Act required local government recipients of federal money to take meaningful actions to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH). Current fair housing analysis requirements are copious but do not request an assessment of how land use policies affect the potential for neighborhood integration. A recent California law requires local governments to include AFFH analysis in existing planning processes, and state guidelines encourage the measurement of the spatial distribution of planned sites for low-income housing with respect to opportunity. We propose and evaluate a fair housing land use score (FHLUS) that measures whether local governments' land use policies promote inclusion across neighborhoods. We illustrate the FHLUS

SUBMITTER: Monkkonen P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11750077 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature