Expanding Fair Housing Opportunitiesfor Low-Income Minority Families

March 22, 2012

• 1928 Plan codifies “separate but equal”

Federal tax credits are used to produce affordable rental housing

Only one developmentlocated west of MoPac

Public housing, project-based section 8 buildings continue to serve low income residents.

Located in an arch around the central core, to the north, east and south.

None west of MoPac.

Hispanics and African-Americans highly concentrated, in a crescent extending around East Austin.

Hispanics somewhat more dispersed overall than African-Americans.

Whites are most dispersed throughout the city.

Some even use vouchers west of MoPac, and in the central core.