(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04)
Kao, Mindy
With the recent overhaul of Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) policy
by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), jurisdictions that
receive federal HUD funding are now provided with an array of tools and data necessary
to conduct the analysis of fair housing issues specific to their area. They have been asked
by HUD to form fair housing goals based on their findings from using the tools and data,
but little guidance has been given on how a jurisdiction sets reasonable metrics and
milestones in order to show whether its goals have been met. In this paper, I use the
HUD-provided AFFH data for Gwinnett County, Georgia to determine ways of 1)
assessing fair housing issues and 2) setting clear and reasonable metrics and milestones.