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• Expand viable housing options by investing in and encouraging new additional affordable <br />housing in higher -income areas of the region, particularly in areas that are well connected to <br />jobs and opportunity. <br />Part 11: Outcomes (Equity), page 45: <br />• Expand viable housing options by investing in and encouraging new additional affordable <br />housing in higher -income areas of the region, particularly in areas that are well connected to <br />jobs and opportunity. <br />Part 11: Outcomes (Equity), page 47: <br />• Allocating each growing city its share of the region's need for new additional affordable housing. <br />Part 11: Outcomes (Equity), page 48: <br />While access to transit can expand household transportation choices particularly for low-income <br />households, access to transit should not constrain where new additional affordable housing is <br />constructed. Even among the lowest income households—those earning less than $30,000 a year - <br />64% of all trips are by automobile.30 <br />Part 11: Outcomes (Equity), pages 50-51: <br />In July 2013, HUD issued a proposed rule on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. As of November <br />201/1March 2015, HUD has not released a final version of the rule. Moreover, in January 2015, the <br />Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The <br />Inclusive Communities Proiect, Inc., has agreed to hear a case that will refine the legal extent of the <br />Fair Housing Act. At this time, federal guidance is in flux. <br />Established in 2002, the region's Fair Housing Implementation Council (FHIC) provides a venue for <br />local entitlement communities" to voluntarily cooperate to develop a regional response to the HUD - <br />required Analysis of Impediments (Al) to fair housing choice and to leverage their use of federal CDBG <br />and HOME funds to affirmatively further fair housing. The current signatories to the 2012-2015 FHIC <br />Cooperative Funding Agreement are the Anoka County Housing and Redevelopment Authority, Dakota <br />County, Hennepin County, Ramsey County, Washington County, and the cities of Coon Rapids, <br />Woodbury, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and the Metropolitan Council. <br />Page - 2 1 METROPOLITAN COUNCIL <br />