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Taking Meaningful Action Towards Fair Housing

This course dives deep into fair housing, exploring everything from the importance of equitable housing laws to practical strategies for planners to promote fairness in zoning and development.

Jennifer Raitt
Taught By Jennifer Raitt
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Course Info

  • Duration 10 video lessons (53 Mins)
  • Published Published
  • 4.42
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    1.
    Introduction
    Chapter Duration 3 mins
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    Fair Housing Laws
    Chapter Duration 9 mins
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    Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
    Chapter Duration 4 mins
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    How Policy Can Shape Fair Housing Laws
    Chapter Duration 5 mins
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    Mapmaking And Fairness
    Chapter Duration 3 mins
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    Understanding The Review Process
    Chapter Duration 2 mins
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    Implementing The Review Process
    Chapter Duration 4 mins
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    Fair Housing Assessment Action Plans
    Chapter Duration 8 mins
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    Strategies For The Future
    Chapter Duration 9 mins
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    Conclusion
    Chapter Duration 1 min

What You Will Learn

Understand the basics of fair housing laws. Advance meaningful actions to affirmatively further fair housing. Apply fair housing laws and use a fair housing lens to development policy, review, and processes. Create plans that incorporate fair housing basics. Adopt strategies to affirmatively further fair housing.

Course Description

This course will provide introductory information about fair housing including: the need for fair housing laws; what it means to affirmatively further fair housing and its limitations; land use policy and zoning; development and plan review; zoning maps; planning processes and fairness; an overview of fair housing assessments and action plans; strategies to affirmatively further fair housing for planners.

Learn these skills

  • Housing
  • Law and Policy

AICP CM

This course is approved for 1 AICP CM credit.

Meet Your Instructor

Jennifer Raitt

Jennifer Raitt

Jennifer Raitt is the Executive Director of the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments. She has nearly three decades of housing, community development, and planning experience.

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