The document discusses a regional planning workshop focused on conducting a fair housing and equity assessment for Southeast Florida. It provides background on why such an assessment is important for understanding barriers to opportunity and creating more equitable communities. Data on housing, transportation, income, poverty, and education are presented for the region showing inequities around race, income, and geography. The workshop aims to integrate these findings into the regional planning process to develop strategies that increase access to opportunities like jobs, schools, transportation and build more inclusive communities.
2. + Seven 50 - Sustainable Communities
Regional Planning Grant – Fair Housing
and Equity Assessment
Understand the historical, current and future
context for equity and opportunity in the region
and the data and evidence that demonstrates
those dynamics
Engage regional leaders and stakeholders on
findings and implications of analysis
Integrate knowledge developed through the
Regional FHEA exercise into the Regional Plan
strategy development process (e.g., priority
setting and decision making)
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Why the FHEA?
―Sustainability also means creating ‗geographies of
opportunity,‘ places that effectively connect people to
jobs, quality public schools, and other amenities.
Today, too many HUD-assisted families are stuck in
neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and
segregation, where one's zip code predicts poor
education, employment, and even health outcomes.
These neighborhoods are not sustainable in their present
state.
—HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, February 23, 2010
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Equity
Fair and just inclusion.
Goal: To make our region a more fair
and just place where all residents
can access and take advantage of
the region‘s economic, social, and
environmental assets
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Opportunity = Prosperity
• Southeast Florida
demographic transformation
• Pursuing strategies that
create more inclusion are no
longer only moral
imperatives—they are
economic ones.
• Addressing income
disparities/poverty and
business development are
fundamental to region‘s
economic future. 5
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Opportunity Analyses
Addresses 33 community indicators in five categories
Access to opportunity, measured by our ―opportunity index‖ is relative
to the following indicators
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Demographic
Race
Linguistic
Isolation
Economic
Household
Income
Poverty
Unemployment
Nutritional
Assistance
Education
Educational
Attainment
Public Schools
Neighborhood
Housing
Occupancy
Household
Composition
Housing
Affordability Gap
Cost Burdon of
Households
Affordable
Housing
Access to a
Supermarket
Transportation
Commuting
Pattern
Access to a
Vehicle
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Homeowners & Renters
1.5 million owner-occupied
housing units
prominent in suburban
areas
750,000 renter-occupied units
more common in the
eastern and higher
density areas of the
region
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Owner-Occupied Units
Renter-Occupied Units
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13.50%
18.2%
0%
4%
8%
12%
16%
20%
Less than
$20,000
$20,000 to
$34,999
$35,000 to
$49,999
$50,000 to
$74,999
$75,000 or
more
Households paying 30% or more of their income on monthly housing
costs, 2010
Seven-50 SE Florida Region
Owner-occupied housing units Renter-occupied housing units
Low-income, renters are
disproportionately cost-burdened
throughout the region
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4.80%
17.30%
30.90%
Martin County,
Poverty Rate by Race and
Ethnicity,2010
199,336
53,036
45,995
Martin County,
Population by Race/Ethnicity
2010
Hispanic/Latino Black/African American White
Poverty + Race/Ethnicity
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Raising children in poverty means
that everything is more
complicated.
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• 32% of families with children under 18 with a
single head of households are below the
poverty level
“Is your housing situation secure?
Can you afford groceries?
Do you go with the cheapest fast food?
Can you get the prescription filled?”
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Assisted Housing + Race/ethnicity
54% of the region‘s
assisted housing units
have minority tenants
27% Black
26% Hispanic
Miami-Dade - highest
percentage of minority
tenants - 91%
Followed by St. Lucie
County at 81% (72% -
Black)
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0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Race and Ethnicity of Tenants
in Assisted Housing Units as of
2008
% Minority % Black % Hispanic
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Travel Mode
180% 20% 40% 60% 80%
Drive Alone
Carpool
Public Transportation
Indian River County, Florida
St. Lucie County, Florida
Martin County, Florida
Palm Beach County, Florida
Broward County, Florida
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Monroe County, Florida
7-County SE Florida Region
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
White
Black or African American
Hispanic or Latino origin (of
any race)
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Travel time to work
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Mean travel time to work (minutes)
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Travel and Housing Costs
According to Center for Neighborhood Technology:
> 30 % of income for housing costs is cost burdened
> 45 % of income for housing and transportation costs is cost
burdened
85% of the Miami Dade/Fort Lauderdale MSA is over 45% - the
highest in the country (average 60%)
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Educational Attainment–
No High School
17% of people in the region
25 years of age and above
lack a high school diploma
Communities where the
number of high school non-
graduates exceeds 30%
Fort Pierce
Belle Glade
Lauderdale Lakes
Hialeah
Opa-locka, and the northwest
of Miami-Dade County,
Blue Cypress Conservation
Area of Indian River County
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Educational Attainment-
High School
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28% of all adults 25
years of age older have
earned just a high
school diploma
Many of them reside
within the central third
of the three-county
MSA and in St. Lucie
and Monroe counties
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Educational Attainment-
College Graduates
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1.19 million people in
Southeast Florida have
earned one or more
college degrees
Same percentage of
those with just a high
school diploma
Distribution is different
College graduates being
largely concentrated
along the coast and the
western urban growth
boundary
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Educational Attainment-
FCAT Scores
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The Florida Department
of Education ranks
schools statewide by the
number of school grade
points they received for
the 2010-2011 school
year
Note: this indicator was
not incorporated into the
index because too few
census tracts contained
data and incorporating
would have weakened
the statistical rigor of the
index
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Sistrunk*
97% of the population is African
American
The median income one third
less than county average
40% of families with children
below poverty
Low educational attainment
and low quality scores
FCAT scores in surrounding tracts
rank ‗C‘ and ‗D‘
40% of adults have less than a
high school diploma.
One out of 10 units are vacant
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*Census Tract 411
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Kendall Green*
Cost-burdened and
segregated neighborhood
African American‘s account
for 90% of the population
75% of renters spend 30% or
more of their income on
related housing costs
40% of all households have
seniors
30% of the population has less
than a high school degree or
equivalent
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*Census Tract 304.01
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Hallandale*
One quarter of residents
don‘t speak English at home
Median household income is
$25,000, approximately 50%
of the county‘s average
40% of ALL persons live in
poverty
A third of all housing units are
vacant
Affordability gap for renters is
over $300 a month
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*Census Tract 1005.01
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Addressing Poverty
Ratio of poor residents who subsist on
transfer payments to persons in families that
are self supporting is among the most
important measures of what a region‘s
economy looks like.
Hard to imagine how we can better the
region‘s future without trying to prescribe
what the poverty ratio might be.
We need to plan to address poverty and its
ramifications on people and the regional
economy.
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30. •Along the coast or the urban growth
boundary of the South Florida MSA
•A significant part of the region
•Indicating potentially negative trends
particularly if there is continued
economic uncertainty and/or natural
disasters
•Concentrated in Miami-Dade
County, central Broward, West Palm
Beach County, and the exurban
western end of the Treasure Coast
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Advancing Regional Opportunity
The Seven50 Regional Plan needs to create regional:
Goals
Policies
Strategies and Actions
FHEA helps inform the Regional Plan in developing a
vision, framework, and roadmap that increases access to
opportunity:
Housing
Transportation
Environmental Justice
Education
Economic Development
Public Infrastructure
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Strengthening low opportunity communities
Stabilizing and Improving moderate opportunity
communities
Maintaining high opportunity communities and
creating greater access for all
Focus on interrelationship of
housing, transportation, economic
development opportunities and education
Ongoing mechanism that updates data
indicators and progress
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Examples
Create healthy walkable and connected
communities
Build the Regional Resource tool kit to address
Shelter, Education, Jobs, food
issues, transportation
Provide inclusionary mixed-income housing near
job centers and public transportation
Urban farming/gardens and access to healthy
foods
Land banking
Family asset building – focus on families
Early childhood education and child care
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Examples
Harness capital resources – especially private sector
investments and debt
Increase financial services and products for homeownership
and business development.
Enhance accessible public transportation connecting
residents to jobs and education.
Create workforce training that matches residents with job
opportunities. Improve educational outcomes for low-
income youth and youth of color.
Create double/triple bottom line funds that leverage federal
resources including New Market Tax Credits and EB5
Capacity – we have over 150 government entities –
municipalities, counties, CRAs. Need to provide sustainable
development assistance (resources, tools)
Combat NIMBYism
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In your discussion group…
Establish a shared vision and set of aspirational values
related to your sense of opportunity.
Establish and recommend goals to be addressed in the
Regional Plan
Establish attainable strategies, so that a long-term and
empowering vision is balanced with shorter
term, concrete steps to get there.
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Further information:
Project Manager: James Carras
FHEA
Urban Revitalizations Solutions, Inc. Rebecca Walter, Serge
Atherwood
RAI
Anna McMaster
Rasheed Shotoyo
FHEA and RAI Documents are available at seven50.org
For further information contact James Carras
Phone: 954.415.2022
Email: carras@bellsouth.net
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Editor's Notes
Incongruence betweenwhere we livewhere we workhow we transport ourselves in-between these spacesAnd the educational attainment of minority and low-income citizens of Southeast FloridaThe Seven50 Prosperity Plan needs to address how to bridge these silos, break down barriers to opportunity while building access
Describe FHEA
60% of renting households, regardless of income, pay more than 30% of their monthly income on housing costs while 46% of households making payments to a mortgage pay more than 30% of their monthly income on housing costs
Renter-occupied households as a whole are more likely to spend more than 30% of their monthly income on housing costs than those that own. When considering various incomes, within lower income brackets there are more renters than owners. Also within this income range, households that rent have higher probabilities of paying above 30% of their household income than those that own. Conversely within the higher income brackets there are more owner-occupied housing units and henceforth more owners are cost-burdened in these brackets. Proportionally, however renting households making less than $20,000 are the most cost-burdened group within each county in SEFLA
13% percent of the total population
A significant divide exists based on race between the economic performance of whites and non-whites. Poverty is clearly linked to race and ethnicity throughout the region. While the predominant race throughout the region is white, proportionally there are about half as many white people in poverty in comparison to both African American and Hispanic populations.
Geographic distribution of the population by race is notable for its spatial patterns: whites make up more of the population in the Treasure Coast and Monroe County, plus the higher-income census tracts along the Atlantic Coast throughout the tri-county MSA and the western urban growth boundary in Broward County. African Americans, on the other hand, make up more of the population in the Belle Glade area, central Broward County, and north-central Miami-Dade County (each of these areas also exhibit similar concentrations of low-income census tracts). As for Hispanics, Miami-Dade County is notable for being the only county of the region where they comprise the majority of the population.
An example of the disproportionate relationship between race/ethnicity and poverty
Single female householders with children as especially in need. As a region, one third of all single-female households with children are below poverty level.
By far the most common means to get to work across all seven counties is private automobile—78.4 percent of all workers get to work in this manner. In all but 75 census tracts, 70 percent or more of workers drive or carpool to work. In fact, in 48.4 percent of all tracts, the number of workers commuting by car is 90 percent or greater.Proportionally, minorities tend to take pubic transportation more than whites. The next slide shows that this mode of travel takes significantly longer than driving alone and carpoolingAlternate commute modes remain overshadowed by commute by car across the majority of the region. Only 119 census tracts feature 15 percent or more of workers who take an alternate commute. The majority of them (86 tracts) are in Miami-Dade County; there are none in Indian River, St. Lucie, or Martin counties). Conversely, there are 166 census tracts (12.5 percent of the region’s total tracts) in which no workers commute by an alternate means. Palm Beach County has the largest number, with 67.
The longest commutes are experienced by residents of communities inthe westernmost side of the urban corridor and the south half of Miami-Dade County. Only sixcensus tracts in Miami-Dade enjoy average commute times of less than 15 minutes; incidentally,all six have a commute time of zero minutes and are located either immediately downtown Miamior in the western exurbs.
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Incongruence betweenwhere we livewhere we workhow we transport ourselves in-between these spacesAnd the educational attainment of minority and low-income citizens of Southeast FloridaThe Seven50 Prosperity Plan needs to address how to bridge these silos, break down barriers to opportunity while building access