Thursday Metro Council Meeting: 1st Reading of Housing/ Employment Growth Forecast; Budget Approval for Initial $300K Regional Equity Effort.

At this Thursday's meeting Metro Council will have the first reading of an ordinance related to the household and employment growth projections through 2040.

Metro Council is also scheduled to act on a $300,000 budget request for a regional equity effort, whose final multi year budget could total as much as $1.06 million.

Packet for this meeting is HERE. (Be patient, it's 24 MB, so will take a couple of minutes to load/download).

Details on the equity effort can be found on PDF page 25-44 of the packet; The growth projection portion of the package is from PDF pages 5-24. 

PS. I am guessing proposed $1 changes to zoo fees will get the most media attention. 
 
Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Metro Portland Scores Well on Urban Institute Black and Hispanic Equity Ratings/ Rankings; Higher than Metro Seattle.

The Urban Insitute has put up new map/scorecard HERE of 100 largest metro areas that provides data and rankings on black/white and hispanic/white equity.  

Portland ranks and ratings:

• Black/White Equity: Ranking, 19th; Score A
• Hispanic/White Equity: Ranking, 32nd; Score B

Seattle Ranks and Ratings

• Black/White Equity: Ranking, 39th; Score B
• Hispanic/White Equity: Ranking, 33rd; Score B

I have prepared a breakout of ALL Portland AND  Seattle Metro values, ratings and rankings in a PDF file HERE.

Rating Data include:

Residential Segregation: Dissimilarity index

Neighborhood Income Gap: Percent difference between the median income of the average non-Hispanic white’s neighborhood and that of the average black or Latino. 

School Test Score Gap: Percent difference between the state test score ranking of the school attended by the average non-Hispanic white student and that of the school attended by the average black or Latino student. 

Employment Gap: Percent difference between the share of working-age non-Hispanic whites who are employed and the corresponding share of blacks or Latinos, 

Homeownership Gap: Percent difference between the share of non-Hispanic white households that are homeowners and the corresponding share of black or Latino households

Grading Scale: Each statistic is scaled by its average and given an equal weight, and then all statistics are summed into a final measure. Each metro is assigned a rank based on this measure and then fit into the following grading scale: A=Best 20, B=21-40, C=41-60, D=61-80, F=Worst 20.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

PolicyLink Guide on Incorporating Equity in 2011 Sustainable Communities Planning Grant Applications.

Document is HERE; page 22 includes link HERE to a Washington County/PSU "Field Work Review of Fair Housing Choice".

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.