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HUD/HUDSEC RIN: 2501-AD33 Publication ID: Spring 2014 
Title: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (FR-5173) 
Abstract: Through this rule, HUD proposes to provide HUD program participants with more effective means to affirmatively further the purposes and policies of the Fair Housing Act, which is title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The current practice of affirmatively further fair housing carried out by HUD grantees, which involves an analysis of impediments to fair housing choice and a certification that the grantee is affirmatively furthering fair housing, has been found not as effective as envisioned. To better fulfill this statutory obligation, this rule would replace existing requirements with a fair housing assessment and planning process that is intended to aid HUD program participants in improving access to opportunity and advancing the ability for all families to make true housing choices. To facilitate this new approach, HUD would provide States, local governments, and public housing agencies, as well as the communities they serve, with local and regional data on, but not limited to, patterns of integration and segregation, and racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty. This rule would further commit HUD to greater engagement and better guidance for program participants in fulfilling their obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. 
Agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD)  Priority: Other Significant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 24 CFR 5   
Legal Authority: 42 USC 3608(e)(5)    42 USC 5304    42 USC 12705(b)    42 USC 1437c-1   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  07/19/2013  78 FR 43710   
NPRM Comment Period End  09/17/2013 
Final Action  12/00/2014 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: Federal, Local, State 
Small Entities Affected: No  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Camille E. Acevedo
Associate General Counsel for Legislation and Regulations, Office of the General Counsel
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Office of Housing
451 7th Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20410
Phone:202 708-1793