1. +
James
Carras

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Sustainable Communities Regional
Planning Grant
 Only HUD Requirement to the Regional Plan:
 Completion of a Fair Housing and Equity Analysis (FHEA)
 Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing (RAI)
(recommended)
Together, these reports present a geographic analysis of
opportunity in the seven county southeast Florida region,
analyzing factors such as housing and neighborhood quality,
education, jobs, and transportation.
A series of maps illustrate where opportunity rich communities
exist, assess who has access to these neighborhoods.

3. 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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Economic
Development
Education Opportunity Housing
Transportation

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Today’s Discussion Points:
1) Regional overview of
existing barriers and access
to opportunity
2) Moving Forward: the
input process

6. Barriers and
+ Accessto
Opportunity
Existing Conditions
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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
Demographic Economic Education Neighborhood Transportation
Housing
Household Occupancy
Income
Educational Household Commuting
Race
Attainment Composition Pattern
Poverty Housing
Affordability Gap
Cost Burdon of
Unemployment Households
Linguistic Affordable Access to a
Public Schools Housing
Isolation Vehicle
Nutritional
Assistance Access to a
Supermarket

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Homeowners & Renters
 1.5 million owner-occupied
housing units
 prominent inland in the
more suburban areas
 750,000 renter-occupied units
 more common in the
eastern and denser
portions of the region
Owner-Occupied Units
Renter-Occupied Units

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A disproportionate number of
renters in the region are minorities
Hispanic or Latino (of 26%
any race) 17% Renter-
occupied
housing units
Black or African 19%
American 9% Owner-
occupied
housing units
75%
White
87%

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Cost-Burdened Households
 60% of renting households  46% of mortgage paying households

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Low-income, renters are
disproportionately cost-burdened
throughout the region
Households paying 30% or more of their income on monthly housing
costs, 2010
Seven-50 SE Florida Region
20%
16% 18.2%
13.50%
12%
8%
4%
0%
Less than $20,000 to $35,000 to $50,000 to $75,000 or
$20,000 $34,999 $49,999 $74,999 more
Owner-occupied housing units Renter-occupied housing units

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Concentrations of
Poverty
• Over 850,000 17%
people below 13%
14%
12% 12%
11%
10%
poverty level in the
region

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Race/Ethnicity + Segregation
Black/African American Hispanic/Latino

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Race/Ethnicity + Segregation

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Poverty + Race/Ethnicity
Martin County, Martin County,
Population by Race/Ethnicity Poverty Rate by Race and
2010 Ethnicity,2010
4.80%
45,995
53,036 17.30%
199,336 30.90%
Hispanic/Latino Black/African American White

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Poverty + Families
% Female householders with no husband
present below Poverty Level
With related children under 18
32%
years
Families 25%

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Assisted Housing + Race/ethnicity
Race and Ethnicity of Tenants
in Assisted Housing Units as of
 54% of the region’s 2008
assisted housing units 100%
have minority tenants 90%
80%
 27% Black 70%
60%
50%
 26% Hispanic 40%
30%
20%
 Miami-Dade - highest 10%
0%
percentage of minority
tenants - 91%
 Followed by St. Lucie
County at 81% (72% -
Black)
% Minority % Black % Hispanic

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Travel Mode
Drive Alone
100%
80%
60%
Carpool
40%
20%
0%
Public Transportation
White
Black or African American Indian River County, Florida
St. Lucie County, Florida
Hispanic or Latino origin (of Martin County, Florida
any race) Palm Beach County, Florida
Broward County, Florida
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Monroe County, Florida
7-County SE Florida Region

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Travel time to work
42
25 24
27
Mean travel time to work (minutes)

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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
 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
 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
 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

24. Opportunity
+
Indices
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•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, West Palm Beach County, and
the exurban western end of the
Treasure Coast

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Moving
Forward
Building Access to Opportunity
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Economic
Development
Education Opportunity Housing
Transportation

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What do you think?
 , Help us understand what needs to be remedied in opportunity-
poor neighborhoods.
 Choose your TOP THREE of the following options:
 1. Enhance accessible public transportation connecting residents to jobs
and education.
 2. Create workforce training that matches residents with job
opportunities.
 3. Provide inclusionary mixed-income housing near job centers and
public transportation
 4. Improve educational outcomes for low-income youth and youth of
color.
 5. Increase financial services and products for homeownership and
business development.
 6. Improve access to healthy foods and health care.
 7. Other:

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Credits and further information:
 Project Manager: James Carras
 FHEA
 Urban Revitalizations Solutions, Inc. Rebecca Walter, Serge
Atherwood
 RAI
 Anna McMaster
 RasheedShotoyo
 FHEA and RAI Documents will be available at seven50.org
 For further information contact James Carras
 Phone: 954.415.2022
 Email: carras@bellsouth.net