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.

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Seven50
Special
Workshop
May
17, 2013
James Carras

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
Economic
Development
Housing
Transportation
Education
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Barriers and
Access to
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
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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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Cost-Burdened Households
 60% of renting households  46% of mortgage paying households
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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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Concentrations of
Poverty
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• Over 850,000
people below
poverty level in the
region
13%
14%
10%
12% 12%
17%
11%

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

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Race/Ethnicity + Segregation
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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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Opportunity
Indices
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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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Moving
Forward
Building Access to Opportunity
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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

37. + Need to Address in Regional Plan
 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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Opportunity
Economic
Development
Housing
Transportation
Education
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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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