HOUSING ADVISORY COMMISSION AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Receive the updated progress report on the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI) and direct staff accordingly
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DEPARTMENT: City Clerk’s Office
SUBMITTED BY: Ruth Broder, Community Grants Coordinator
Staff has received the September 2019 AI progress report. The status of the following items have been updated.
Goal #1: Increase fair housing education and outreach opportunities available to residents; landlords, property management agents and real estate professionals; City staff, appointed boards and commissions; and City municipal leaders
• 1C - Contract with a Qualified Fair Housing Enforcement Organization to conduct fair housing education and outreach workshops for residents, landlords, real estate agents, property management agents, lenders, City staff, City Council, and City boards and commissions
• 1E - The City will review its procedures for investigating all housing discrimination complaints to ensure they are in full compliance with applicable laws and reflect best practices for investigation and resolution of complaints
• 1F - Amend Title 10, Section 5, §10-5-6-1 of the Naperville Municipal Code to allow a housing discrimination complaint to be investigated as long as it is filed within one year of the alleged unlawful act that forms the basis of the complaint
Goal #3: Expand affordable housing choice throughout Naperville to meet existing and future market demand for members of the protected classes
• 3A - Prepare an Affordable Housing Plan to determine the degree to which affordable housing demand exceeds current housing supply; implement any recommendations as supplemental initiatives to this Fair Housing Action Plan
• 3B - Fully integrate planning for affordable housing and fair housing into the comprehensive planning and implementation process with plan amendments
• 3C - Identify parcels of land appropriate for rezoning for multi-family development; amend the City Zoning Map to rezone these parcels and create opportunities for new affordable housing development
• 3D - Consider reasonable accommodation requests as a new policy established through this AI, including but not limited to zoning ordinance provisions