1. The Fair Housing Act at 45: Actualizing the Duty to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing David Rusk
Friday, April 12, 2013
University of Maryland Carey School of Law 500 W. Baltimore St. Baltimore, MD 21201

4. The Century Foundation
“Housing Policy IS
School Policy”
By Dr. Heather Schwartz
The Century Foundation

5. Municipal Opportunity Index
Factors for a
Municipal Opportunity Index
Good jobs 35%
Good schools 35%
Good tax base 10%
Good neighborhoods 20%

6. Municipal Opportunity Index (MOI)
Competitively rates Philadelphia and its 237 suburban cities, boroughs, and townships by key characteristics
Divides 237 towns into five groups of near-equal total population (each quintile = 492,000 residents)

7. The region is divided into:1
Central City (Philadelphia) 23
Maximum Opportunity Towns 37
High Opportunity Towns 43
Medium Opportunity Towns 59
Low Opportunity Towns 75
Minimum Opportunity Towns

13. JOB SPRAWL
From 1998 to 2006, city and inner ring suburbs lost 14,000 jobs (-1.5%)
While outer ring suburbs added 160,690 jobs (+11.4%).
Billions of dollars of infrastructure investment supported this growth and bypassed the towns in the middle.

14. Free And Reduced-price Meals (FARM) percentages by MOI category
SCHOOLS
Free And Reduced-price Meals (FARM) percentages by MOI category
Maximum opportunity towns 6%
High opportunity towns 7%
Medium opportunity towns 12%
Low opportunity towns 20%
Minimum opportunity towns 37%
Central City %

15. Distribution of Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) in Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties in by Municipal Opportunity Index Category

16. Estimated number of affordable rentals in maximum- and high-opportunity towns

17. Total tax revenue as pct of GDP