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

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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 http://www.seattle.gov/housing/planning/docs/SeattleAf fordableHousingStrategiesSummary.pdf http://www.seattle.gov/housing/planning/docs/SeattleAf fordableHousingStrategiesSummary.pdf

6. 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 2009-2012 Consolidated Plan

7. 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.

8. Selected AI Data Sources

9. 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?

10. Contacts & Websites Debra Rhinehart, Senior Planner, CDBG Administration, HSD, (206) 685-0574 debra.rhinehart@seattle.gov debra.rhinehart@seattle.gov Laura Hewitt Walker, Policy & Program Development, Office of Housing laura.hewitt@seattle.gov laura.hewitt@seattle.gov City of Seattle 2009-2012 Consolidated Plan at http://www.seattle.gov/humanservices/community _development/conplan/default.htm http://www.seattle.gov/humanservices/community _development/conplan/default.htm City of Seattle 2008 Analysis of Impediments to Affordable Housing at http://www.seattle.gov/housing/planning/docs/Ana lysis_Impediments.pdf http://www.seattle.gov/housing/planning/docs/Ana lysis_Impediments.pdf