Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 28.10.1998

Fair Housing Performance Standards for Acceptance of Consolidated Plan Certifications and Compliance With Community Development Block Grant Performance Review Criteria

This proposed rule would amend HUD regulations on Consolidated Submissions for Community Planning and Development Programs to establish a standard for determining if the jurisdiction's certification regarding affirmatively furthering fair housing is inaccurate. This rule would also amend HUD regulations on Community Development Block Grants to provide performance review standards for affirmatively furthering fair housing requirements. The performance review standards would clarify the basis upon which the Department makes its annual statutory determination that a grantee is carrying out its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program in compliance with its certifications and with other applicable laws. Both revisions would also make clear that compliance with the requirement to affirmatively further fair housing would require grantees to have a complete and accurate analysis of impediments to fair housing choice and to not violate the Fair Housing Act or civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination in housing programs receiving Federal financial assistance. These revisions would serve to provide communities with a clear idea of the standards that HUD would use in both reviewin