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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: October 5, 1999 Action Agenda Item No. /p_C,. SUBJECT• Orange County Fair Housing Plan DEPARTMENT: Housing/Comm. Development PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No Human Rights and Relations ATTACHMENT(S): Fair Housing Plan (Draft) (Under separate cover) INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara L. Fikes, ext 2490; Annette Moore, ext. 2250 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To present the draft Fair Housing Plan for Orange County and establish an official public comment period of October 11 to October 22, 1999. BACKGROUND: Provisions to affirmatively further fair housing are principal and long-standing components of housing and community development programs sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Specifically, HUD is committed to eliminating racial and ethnic segregation and other discriminatory practices in housing. Further, Orange County, through its Civil Rights Ordinance, is also committed to the elimination of discriminatory practices in housing. All recipients of HUD funding aze required to meet the following broad objectives: 1. Analyze and eliminate housing discrimination in the jurisdiction; 2. Promote fair housing choice; 3. Provide opportunities for racially and ethnically inclusive patterns of housing occupancy; 4. Promote housing that is physically accessible to, and usable by, all persons, particularly persons with disabilities; and 5. Foster compliance with the nondiscrimination provisions of the Fair Housing Act. This is accomplished by the development of a Fair Housing Plan which identifies impediments to fair housing choice within the jurisdiction, and, outlines appropriate actions to overcome the effects of any impediments identified through the analysis. This Plan is required of all recipients of HUD funding under the Community Development Block Grant Program, the HOME Investment Partnership Program, the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program. Thus, the County, as a recipient of these funds, is required to have this document. In past yeazs, we have written this plan at the staff level without soliciting BOCC approval. Recently, however, we have been advised by both State and Federal officials that we should formally adopt the Fair Housing Plan. This is especially critical as we apply for new funding during the new budget year. The Fair Housing Plan is a separate document from the Consolidated Plan for Housing and Community Development Programs in Orange County, NC.