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PRESENTED TO
WEST TENNESSEE
2012 FAIR HOUSING SEMINAR
April 10, 2012
HUD Requirement
necessary for CDBG, HOME, ESG, HOPWA $
increased scrutiny by HUD
City Planning Benefits
Quality of Life
Economic Development
Impediment #1:
Flawed City Fair Housing Ordinance
Impediment #2:
Lack of Housing Accessible to Persons with
Disabilities
Memphis Impediments to Fair Housing
Impediment
#3:
Inadequate
Affordable
Housing
Supply
Relative to
Resident
Income
Impediment
#4:
Need for a
Critical Review
of Memphis
Housing
Authority’s
Policies &
Practices
Impediment #5:
Inadequacies of
the Transit
System
Impediment #6:
Shelby County Does Not Have a Fair Housing Ordinance
Impediment #7:
Historically Inadequate Code Enforcement by Shelby County
Impediment #8:
Limited Transit in County
Impediment #9:
Limited LIHTC development in County
Impediment #10:
NIMBY attitudes
Impediment #11:
State Limitations to Fair Housing
Impediment #12:
Frequent Attacks on the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) by
Banking Regulators
Impediment #13:
Lack of Resources and Incentives for Developers to Build for the
Lowest Income Households
Impediment #14:
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development does not
adequately fund or incentivize PHAs to utilize mobility strategies
Impediment #15:
Racial Segregation of Project Based Housing
Impediment #16:
Mortgage Lending
Impediment #17:
Homeowners Insurance
Impediment #18:
Housing Sales and Rental Markets
Recommendation #1:
Appoint Fair Housing Official per Fair Housing
Ordinance
Recommendation #2:
Review and Amend Local Fair Housing Ordinance
Recommendation #3:
Memphis Housing Authority – Identify and Map
Nonimpacted Areas
Recommendation #4:
Create and Implement a Comprehensive
Affordable/Accessible Housing Production Strategy
Recommendation #5:
Provide Education for Affirmatively Further Fair
Housing and Section 3 Requirements
Recommendation #6:
Support Comprehensive Fair Housing Services
Recommendation #7:
Improve Community Reinvestment Utilizing the
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
Recommendation #8:
Work with MATA and MPO to better coordinate
transit routes and schedules; and to increase
awareness and dialogue of the relationships between
fair housing and transit.
Recommendation #9: The City should encourage work with
Shelby County to:
•Request Housing/Transit Impact Studies of new employers;
•write and enact a comprehensive fair housing ordinance; and
•incentivize multifamily affordable housing.
oensure adequate and equitable regional transit.
Recommendation 3: Memphis Housing Authority
•Housing provider outreach,
•Explore potential impact of small market Fair Market Rents
(FMRs),
•Mobility Program
Recommendation #10:
HUD Rules and Funding Impediments
HUD must make policy changes regarding site approval.
HUD needs to increase funding for programs that integrate
housing
Recommendation #11:
Advocate for State’s Overturning of Fair Housing Barriers
Recommendation #12:
Advocate for Open and Inclusive Real Estate and Rental Markets