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Data and Tools for Fair Housing Planning

interpreting and implementing the “affirmatively furthering fair housing” (AFFH) requirement of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968). In addition to releasing the final AFFH rule in 2015, HUD shared data, guidance, and resources that state and local governments could use to identify fair housing issues in their communities relating to segregation and concentrated poverty, as well as disparities in housing needs and access to opportunity for groups protected by the Fair Housing Act.

While HUD is no longer enforcing the 2015 final rule, many communities are moving forward with robust fair housing planning, and the data that HUD created is a valuable resource for state and local policymakers, advocates, researchers, and other stakeholders to work together to identify fair housing challenges and solutions in communities across the country.

We include here the July 2020 update to the AFFH raw data that was included in the most recent version of the data and mapping tool (AFFHT0006). We also include for reference the version from February 2018 that was originally used by communities who already engaged in their AFH plan (AFFHT0004a). In addition to the raw data, we include the following HUD resources to assist users in applying the data for fair housing planning.

Datasets (AFFHT006 and AFHT004a)
• Public Use Crosswalk
• Public Use Data Dictionaries
• Block group
• Tract
• Jurisdiction (“juris”)
• County
• Region
• State
• Entitlement Non-entitlement (“entl_nonentl”)
• Housing LIHTC
• Housing Project
• Housing Tract
• PHA Jurisdiction
• PHA Region

Data Documentation
• AFFH-T Data Documentation
• AFFH Data and Mapping Tool User Guide

Other Resources
• AFFH Fact Sheet – The Duty to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing
• AFFH Fact Sheet – Community Participation and AFFH Guidance for Consolidated Plan Program Participants
• AFFH Fact Sheet – Community Participation and AFFH Guidance for Public Housing Agencies
• AFFH Fact Sheet – How Program Participants Can Collaborate on Their AFH Submissions
• AFFH Fact Sheet – The Fair Housing Planning Process Under the New Rule
• AFFH Final Rule Executive Summary
• AFFH Rule Guidebook
• AFH Tool for Local Governments
• AFH Tool for Public Housing Agencies

The following Urban Institute publications provide more information on the HUD 2015 AFFH Rule and provide additional insights on how these data and resources may be used to support community engagement and data-driven fair housing planning and policy decisions.

Ruth Gourevitch, Solomon Greene, and Rolf Pendall. 2018. Place and Opportunity: Using Federal Fair Housing Data to Examine Opportunity Across US Regions and Populations. Washington, DC: Urban Institute.
https://www.urban.org/research/publication/place-and-opportunity-using-f...

Leah Hendey and Mychal Cohen. 2017. Using Data to Assess Fair Housing and Improve Access to Opportunity: A Guidebook for Community Organizations.
https://www.urban.org/research/publication/using-data-assess-fair-housin...

Margery Turner, Solomon Greene and Ruth Gourevitch. 2018. Opportunity Neighborhoods: Building the Foundation for Economic Mobility in America’s Metros. Washington, DC: US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty.
https://www.mobilitypartnership.org/opportunity-neighborhoods

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2020-07-31
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Urban Institute. 2020. Revisions. Accessible from https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/data-and-tools-fair-housing-planning. Data originally sourced from HUD Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Data and Tools, developed at the Urban Institute, and made available under the ODC-BY 1.0 Attribution License.