Engagement in our Fair Housing Study
Engagement in our Fair Housing Study
We, as local governments and public housing authorities in the Baltimore region, are teaming up to improve life and increase opportunities for people in their homes and communities.
You are a key player in our work to make this happen!
Below you will find some background information about our 2025 Fair Housing Plan. This particular survey is closed, although you can see the results if you responded to it while it was open. We will be back soon with more information about how you can be involved moving forward!
Kickoff Meeting: Baltimore-Area Fair Housing Study
This is the first meeting for the 2025 Baltimore-Area Fair Housing Study. It's for anyone who is interested in being involved or making suggestions. We will be going over our proposed process for developing this study, and we'll be asking for feedback on that process. We'll introduce our consultant, Root Policy Research, and talk about how you can participate.
We hope you can join us! Register for this virtual meeting at: https://baltometro-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcud-6rpjsjHdHbPSWyxqYKh3L7QmYDLMfU.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
About the Fair Housing Act and Plan
Back in 1968, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act to address housing discrimination and historical unfair policies. This included redlining, segregation, and other 20th century discriminatory policies that kept people from investments and opportunities because of their race, religion, or nationality.
Because of this, every five years, we must:
Examine data to see if people in our region face unequal access to jobs, education, health, and communities with low poverty. We look to see if that inequality corresponds to characteristics protected by fair housing laws. This includes race, having a disability, what country you come from, your religion, your gender, and if you have children.
See if policies under our control or influence could still be contributing to these disparities, even if by mistake. If so, these policies can be considered "impediments to fair housing choice."
Create action steps to address any of those policies and impediments.
Put those action steps in our 2025-2030 plans for using federal housing funds, and then we take action. (Now we are implementing our 2020-2025 plans.)
Right now, we are in the early stages of creating our 2025 Fair Housing Plan.
An important part of creating this plan will be to talk to people about their homes, their communities, and any barriers they face. This is where you come in. We need your help in developing our mailing list and plan for meetings.
Take our survey on the following tabs.
For more information, contact Dan Pontious, BMC Housing Policy Coordinator, at dpontious@baltometro.org or (410) 732-0500 x1055. Your input is valuable!