1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. AFH Data Mapping Tool About the AFFH-T The AFFH-T includes:
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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Participant Engagement with Data Mapping

11. Data Mapping Guides Policy

12. Data Mapping Guides Policy

13. Data Mapping Informs Investments

14. Data Mapping Informs Investments

15. Questions or Comments? AFFH – Tools to Use for Your Community
Jarrod Elwell, Enterprise Community,
Marcy Esbjerg, City of Burlington, VT,
Debra Rhinehart, City of Seattle, WA,