Fair Housing Planning Office Hours

The Fair Housing Planning Office Hours are a series of virtual office hours where HUD program participants can ask questions related to fair housing planning and the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Interim Final Rule, "Restoring AFFH Definitions and Certifications".

These office hour sessions are intended for HUD grantees, including entitlement jurisdictions, participating jurisdictions (PJs), and public housing agencies (PHAs), who are responsible for producing fair housing plans.

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Training Objectives

Participants will understand:

  • Fair housing planning best practices and voluntary requirements under the AFFH Interim Final Rule, "Restoring AFFH Definitions and Certifications"
  • Practices on how to conduct fair housing planning
  • Producing fair housing planning documents such as an Analysis of Impediments (AI), or an Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH), or another form of fair housing planning document
  • What resources HUD provides to assist participating jurisdictions with fair housing planning and how to leverage those resources effectively

Office Hours Format

Throughout 2022, HUD sponsored office hours twice a month consisting of one topical session and one question and answer session, where the program participants ask questions related to fair housing planning.

Topical Sessions include topics such as:

  • Community engagement during the fair housing planning process
  • The use of data analysis and local data sources in fair housing planning
  • Fair housing issues such as patterns of segregation and disparities in access to opportunity, factors that contribute to those issues, and the impact on individuals with protected characteristics
  • Setting for fair housing goals

Question Sessions include questions on how to:

  • Conduct fair housing planning, including how to prepare an AI, AFH, or another form of a fair housing planning document
  • Conduct effective community participation to reach individuals with protected characteristics
  • Effectively implement and report on any fair housing planning documents
 

Topical Sessions

Community Engagement

March 22, 2022

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Fair Housing Issues, Impediments, and Contributing Factors

April 26, 2022

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Data Collection and Analysis

May 24, 2022

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Goal Setting and Reporting

June 28, 2022

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Community Engagement

July 26, 2022

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Fair Housing Issues, Impediments, and Contributing Factors

August 23, 2022

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Data Collection and Analysis

September 27, 2022

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Goal Setting and Reporting

October 25, 2022

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Community Engagement

November 22, 2022

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Question Sessions

March Question Session

March 8, 2022

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April Question Session

April 12, 2022

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May Question Session

May 10, 2022

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June Question Session

June 14, 2022

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July Question Session

July 12, 2022

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August Question Session

August 9, 2022

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September Question Session

September 13, 2022

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October Question Session

October 11, 2022

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November Question Session

November 8, 2022

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December Question Session

December 13, 2022

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