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40 <br /> NA-30 Disproportionately Greater Need: Discussion - 91.205 (b)(2) <br /> Are there any Income categories in which a racial or ethnic group has disproportionately <br /> greater need than the needs of that income category as a whole? <br /> As discussed above,we find the following racial/ethnic groups have disproportionately greater needs <br /> than Orange County's population as a whole (analysis limited to the four largest racial/ethnic groups in <br /> the county: Whites, African-Americans,Asians, and Hispanics): <br /> • Housing problems: Hispanics earning (1) below 30%AMI and (2) 80-100%AMI and Asian <br /> earning (3) 30-50%AMI and (4) 80-100%AMI <br /> • Severe housing problems: Hispanics earning(1) 50-80%AMI and (2) 80-100%AMI and Asians <br /> earning (3) 50-80%AMI and (4) 80-100%AMI. <br /> • Housing cost burden: No racial/ethnic groups. <br /> To reiterate,we defined a racial/ethnic group as "disproportionately burdened" if their incidence of a <br /> housing problem or cost burdened is more than 10 percentage points greater than the overall incidence <br /> of that issue within the county. <br /> If they have needs not identified above, what are those needs? <br /> There are no additional needs not previously discussed in this section. <br /> Are any of those racial or ethnic groups located in specific areas or neighborhoods in your <br /> community? <br /> According to the most recent American Community Survey estimates(2014-2018 ACS estimates), <br /> Orange County's racial composition is 75.5%White, 11.6%African-American, 7.8%Asian, and 8.4% <br /> Hispanic. We define a minority neighborhood as one where a racial or ethnic group's proportion of the <br /> population is greater than 20 percentage points more than their overall population proportion in the <br /> county, and we limit our analysis to the two racial/ethnic groups (Hispanics and Asians) identified as <br /> facing disproportionately greater housing need. <br /> Hispanics are concentrated in four block groups in Orange County: in the Town of Carrboro and in three <br /> block groups located west and east of Hillsborough. Asians are concentrated in three block groups <br /> located southwest, north, and northeast of Chapel Hill. <br /> We have included maps of racial/ethnic composition by block group attached to this plan. <br /> FFY 2020—2024 Orange County, NC HOME Consortium 37 <br /> Consolidated Plan <br /> OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.06/30/2018) <br />