Planning to Meet Local Housing Needs: The Role
of HUD's Consolidated Planning Requirements in the 1990s
(December 2002, 100 p.)
This study reviews how large central cities and suburban
jurisdictions in six metropolitan areas with very diverse
housing markets undertook housing needs analysis and priority
and strategy development for housing plans during the 1990s.
It then examines what actual housing implementation occurred
during that time period and how the needs for affordable housing
changed. Appendices include site-by-site data tabulations.
For federal policymakers, this report makes four key recommendations
for improving the Consolidated Plan process. The recommendations
relate to timeliness of data, the comprehensive nature of
the plan, PHA participation, and activity reports. These recommendations
will be taken into account as the Department proceeds to make
the Consolidated Plan easier to prepare and more effective
at guiding program implementation.
This report continues a 25-year PD&R tradition of conducting
research on housing planning requirements. It complements
Analysis of State
Qualified Allocations Plans for the Low-Income Housing Tax
Credit Program, a report being published simultaneously.
Both reports examine the implementation of federally mandated
planning requirements in the 1990s. This report looks at locally
prepared Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategies (CHAS)/Consolidated
Plans that carry out the purposes of the National Affordable
Housing Act, while the other looks at state prepared Qualified
Allocation Plans (QAPs) for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
program.
Planning to Meet Local Housing Needs: The Role of HUD's
Consolidated Planning Requirements in the 1990s should
be useful to both local governments and federal policymakers.
The release of this report coincides with the availability
of new housing needs data from the Census 2000, thus offering
guidance to local governments on how they might effectively
implement their housing strategies at the same time that they
have current needs data to update those strategies. It also
comes at a fortuitous time for federal policymakers, as we
consider ways to make the Consolidated Plan less burdensome
and more useful.
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