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thinking about fair housing issues early in the process, or else they may find themselves <br />scrambling in order to avoid problems. <br />Questions for cities to ask early in any planning process include: <br />• Will the planned project increase or reduce the amount of affordable housing in the <br />city? If there will be a reduction, is there a plan to replace the housing lost? <br />• Will the planned project require displacement of current residents? <br />• Will the planned project affect protected classes in a disparate way? If so, have less <br />discriminatory alternatives been considered? <br />• Has there been community engagement in the proposed development? <br />• Does the project increase or decrease racial and economic segregation? <br />• How does the project address goals or objectives in the city's Comprehensive Plan? <br />• If there are public funds in the project, what are the community benefits that will <br />result? <br />Cities are encouraged to develop or adopt a checklist that addresses common fair <br />housing issues or considerations that arise during the city planning process. Locally <br />developed rubrics may assist in answering the questions. <br />Balancing Housing Investments Throughout the Region <br />One of the major issues addressed in the recent Addendum to the 2014 Regional Analysis <br />of Impediments (ARAI) was how <br />affordable housing resources should be <br />allocated across the region, and in <br />particular how resources should be spent <br />in areas of concentrated poverty <br />(including racially concentrated areas) <br />versus lower poverty areas of the region. <br />The RAI Addendum calls for a balanced <br />approach, emphasizing the need to invest <br />25 <br />