Building an Analysis of Impediments to Affordable Housing (AI) City of Seattle - Debra Rhinehart, Panelist

Context--Consolidated Plan 2010 Federal Funding CDBG $13,000,000 HOME $ 4,615,512 HOPWA$ 1,760,439 ESG$ 535,274 One time ARRA grants over three years: CDBG-R$ 3,300,000 HPRP$ 4,993,052

Who Manages Consolidated Plan Money? City of Seattle Consolidated Plan funds administered by: Human Services Department (HSD) Economic Development Department (OED) Office of Housing (OH)

Seattle’s 2010 Estimated Housing Funding Includes: CDBG $ 2,762,293 HOME $ 4,615,512 Housing Levy$20,714,286 Other state, county, private foundation and federal sources Funding provides for: LI Rental production & preservation Homebuyer assistance Renter assistance

Seattle Affordable Housing Strategies Address housing needs of low and extremely low-income households; Boost supply of housing for moderate wage workers in the city; Support the City’s Ten-Year Plan to end Homelessness. Affordable Housing Strategies summary fordableHousingStrategiesSummary.pdf fordableHousingStrategiesSummary.pdf

Developing the City’s 2008 AI Review of laws, regulations, policies Assess effect of laws/policies on location, availability of housing Evaluate public and private conditions that affect affordable housing Data analysis for housing inventory in range of unit sizes Strategies to address identified impediments Integration of AI into Consolidated Plan

2008 AI Challenges Coordinate the work: consultants and in- house staff in multiple departments Use of both Census and ACS data, but there are reliability and comparability issues with the two sources; leads to qualifying conclusions Many types and sources of data, from discrimination complaints to lending data to federal statistics. Difficult to create coherent conclusions and recommendations to address impediments.

Selected AI Data Sources

AI in the Westchester County decision era Lessons learned Will 2010 US Census help? Gives us back census tract and GIS tools Increasing interest in tools available at City/County level to help with analysis; potential regional collaboration Role of HUD in assisting grantees to conduct AI –Anticipating rule refinement? –Integration of CHAS/2010 Census data? –Consistency in policy and interpretation?

Contacts & Websites Debra Rhinehart, Senior Planner, CDBG Administration, HSD, (206) Laura Hewitt Walker, Policy & Program Development, Office of Housing City of Seattle Consolidated Plan at _development/conplan/default.htm _development/conplan/default.htm City of Seattle 2008 Analysis of Impediments to Affordable Housing at lysis_Impediments.pdf lysis_Impediments.pdf