AFFH – Tools to Use for Your Community NCDA Winter Legislative Conference January 24, 2018 Presenters: Jarrod Elwell, Enterprise Community Marcy Esbjerg, City of Burlington, VT Debra Rhinehart, City of Seattle, WA

Enhance Citizen Engagement Citizen engagement is more than a check box It involves receiving information and providing information for feedback Don’t organize a meeting and expect folks to come to you Realize marginalized populations may need different types of outreach due to long-standing equity issues Framework and prompts from AFH can enhance all your public processes Enhance Citizen Engagement

Engage Broader Community Burlington Seattle For smaller communities Survey – Google grant to enhance advertising, driving participation Local meetings – neighborhood assemblies Local Access TV – 2 programs focused on AFH and housing input MLK Day of Service – ECHO Museum Council Committee meetings – advertised and open to the public Engage Broader Community City Scoop – summer festivals with invitation to share ice cream and City programs and policies initiatives Invited to participate in the Area Agency on Aging and Seattle/King County Housing Development Consortium’s Senior Housing Needs forum Mayor's holds "telephone town hall" for public input on housing affordability, growth management and density planning, HALA recommendations; ATT conference line for up to 200 callers. Socrata (private technology software developer focused on "open data“) innovations think tank; University of Washington research on “micro-segregation” by race in Seattle neighborhoods

Engage Protected Classes & Constituents Seattle Burlington Engage Protected Classes & Constituents Seattle Housing Authority public housing residents; multiple outreach events and resident council discussions in each housing community City Commission for People with Different Abilities; joint training on ADA compliance with City and advocacy groups like Lighthouse for the Blind, Deaf and Hearing Impairment groups and disAbilities Rights Washington legal advocates Northwest Universal Design Council will “Walk-, Stroll- & Roll-Ability: Designing a Pedestrian Network for All”. Invitation to present on equity issues for people with physical impairments as part of prioritizing City-wide infrastructure improvements (with Dept. of Transportation, Office of Long Range Planning, Office of Housing) Race and Social Justice committees throughout City Departments; link to client advisory groups Seattle Office of Civil Rights community survey; periodic assessment of experience of people in community experiencing discrimination in many forms Housing Authorities – coffees, focus groups, actually on the properties Mayor’s Committee on Accessibility Here to Help Clinic – homeless World Refugee Day event – individual interviews Specialty store outreach – Nepali, Vietnamese Vietnamese Church outreach

Engage Stakeholders & Regional Partners Seattle Burlington Engage Stakeholders & Regional Partners Citizen Advisory & Council Committees – Community and Neighborhood Revitalization, Accessibility Neighborhood Planning Assembly meetings Core Committee – included PHAs, FH project lead and others Individual meetings with agencies and organizations who serve protected classes Citizens advisory committees; planning sessions across the City as part of the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) for over two years; led to adoption of inclusionary zoning Ordinance Formal and informal neighborhoods meetings as part of the update to the City’s Comprehensive Growth Management Plan HUD sponsored Region X Forum focusing on the Assessment of Fair Housing and impact of regional issues driving housing affordability; presentations and peer to peer consultation

Participant Engagement Protected Classes Organizations to Contact Methods to Engage Race/Ethnicity Color National Origin Disability Religion Gender Familial Status Participant Engagement Take a few minutes to brainstorm how you might engage members of protected classes in your community. Then discuss with those around you.

AFH Data Mapping Tool About the AFFH-T The AFFH-T includes: https://egis.hud.gov/affht/ AFH Data Mapping Tool The AFFH-T includes: Tabular data that provides specific measures, values, or index scores by protected class groups Maps that display spatial patterns that might not be evident from tabular data alone The AFFH-T: Builds standardization and transparency into the AFH process Is publicly available, providing for a robust community participation process

Participant Engagement with Data Mapping Option 1: 6-8 maps: using among the following HUD indices/data as a base layer (thematic map): Low poverty index School proficiency index Job Proximity OR Labor Market index Environmental Health index Low transportation cost OR transit trips index Publicly supported housing and vouchers Housing burden % homeownership AND toggling on/off the protected classes (dot density) – race/ethnicity; NO/LEP; Familial Status; Disability; and R/ECAPs Participant Engagement with Data Mapping

Participant Engagement with Data Mapping Option 2: 4 smaller static maps along left hand side of screen showing protected class distribution: race/ethnicity; NO/LEP; Familial Status; Disability (see model below; note that the data shown on maps don’t necessarily reflect the actual data we’d use) One large interactive map on right side can toggle on/off following layers – one at a time. Viewer could not toggle more than one layer on at a time. User can also toggle on/off: neighborhood names, rail transit

Participant Engagement with Data Mapping

Data Mapping Guides Policy

Data Mapping Guides Policy

Data Mapping Informs Investments

Data Mapping Informs Investments

Questions or Comments? AFFH – Tools to Use for Your Community Jarrod Elwell, Enterprise Community, jelwell@enterprisecommunity.org Marcy Esbjerg, City of Burlington, VT, mesbjerg@burlingtonvt.gov Debra Rhinehart, City of Seattle, WA, debra.rhinehart@seattle.gov