11 - Fair Housing AnalysisItem No. 11
TO: Mayor, Mayor Pro -Tem & City Council
FROM: Robert G. Vine, Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT: Fair Housing Analysis Associated with TXCDBG Community Development Fund
and Main Street Fund Applications
DATE: March 27, 2023
BACKGROUND: The Texas Department of Agriculture offers funding sources through the Texas
Community Development Block Grant Program to non -entitlement communities across Texas.
The City of Paris is applying for two separate fund categories in the coming weeks. In an effort to
gain additional points in each of these applications, the City can perform various efforts to promote
Fair Housing within the City.
STATUS OF ISSUE: The City is working with GrantWorks, Inc. to complete these applications.
GrantWorks, Inc. has completed a high-level review of current housing stock and impediments to
Fair Housing within the City utilizing available census data. This analysis provides
recommendations regarding Fair Housing and should allow the City to gain the additional points
related to the two TxCDBG applications being submitted by the City.
BUDGET: The acceptance of the analysis will have no impact on the City's budget
RECOMMENDATION: Accept the Fair Housing Analysis as presented.
In conjunction with the acceptance of grant funds from the Texas Community Development Block
Grant Program (TxCDBG) program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), the City of Paris must affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH) and uphold the 1968 Fair
Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination based on disability, familial status,
race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The Fair Housing Data table provides basic data on
the availability of housing types to those protected classes. The following paragraphs discuss each
protected group.
0 Disability (Table S1810): According to the 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS),
approximately 19.4% of residents in Paris (estimated 4,648 residents) have a disability;'
this figure is higher than the state-wide average —12.1%of all Texans. An estimated 58.5%
of Paris residents with a disability are over 74 years old. It is not known how many single-
family homes in Paris fully meet ADA accessibility standards.
v Familial Status: As measured by the number of bedrooms available, a variety of rental
properties and homes for ownership are available to accommodate families, as well as
single occupants.
vRace & Ethnicity (Table DP05): The minority population in the City of Paris is 32.4%, and
9.1% are Latino or Hispanic.
Impediments to additional fair housing: As shown in the data below, there are 1,577 vacant single-family
houses. Additionally, Paris does have numerous LIHTC facilities however, it has not kept pace with general
housing demands in a growing city.
Recommendation: Paris may consider future grants that increase available low-income housing. It is
recommended that the Paris take future action to increase new construction or rehab of affordable housing
stock by considering incentivizing developers and builders through waived fees or other means.
1 In the 2017-2021 American Community Survey, individuals were classified as having a disability if they had hearing
difficulty, vision difficulty, cognitive difficulty, ambulatory difficulty, self-care difficulty, and/or independent living
difficulty.
Fair Housing Data
Total Population: 24,447 B01003
Total Housing: 11,569 HI
Average Household 2.38
Size HCT5
% of total
Units multifamily
housing
Affordable and Subsidized Multifamily Housing
Units (Occupied and Vacant)
Sources: Census 2010,
78 121'11
T I 1'.Pid, C 1) 4,,c 0 f) 76 2 1XI,
t o f uc
2 nr4
Total NT Units
Other Housing Units (Occupied and Vacant)
Single-family Rentals 4,9`2 4
H4 2010
Single-family Owned5,3 3, 4 44r ,Y
Single-family Vacant /
H5 2010
Total SF Units f -1, 98 1
Housing by RacelEthnicity (Census 2010)
Characteristic Owned
Rented
Race
White 4(l8 %
1, 6
HCT1 Census 2010
Black 1 '17 "1
1
(:7
5 IX,
American Indian or Alaska
N 4,
ative
Asian
Other
2
041�/j
Two or More Races 89 1 5
I04
2
Native Hawaiian & Other
010
Pacific Islander
k""'41
Ethnicity
Hisp an ic or I -at ino J,:%
2 27
4,5'
Sources: Census 2010,