In addition to prohibiting housing discrimination, the Fair Housing Act calls for jurisdictions to affirmatively further fair housing . The ConPlan regs are at 24CFRPart 91. HUD has proposed four changes to Section 601. The analysis must be updated periodically, as appropriate . Appropriate actions are to be taken to eliminate any impediments within the jurisdiction s control .
Appropriate actions are to be taken to overcome any impediments outside the jurisdiction s control .
There is some clarification in proposed changes to Section 904 of the regs, presented later in this summary. The primary change for purposes of this discussion is the new standard for HUD review of affirmatively furthering fair housing . In order to assess whether an analysis of impediments is accurate and substantially complete , the proposed reg would require HUD to base its assessment on generally available facts and data . The proposed changes to the ConPlan regs would echo those just described above for CDBG s Section 601. The ConPlan regs say that HUD can decide to not approve an Action Plan if it is substantially incomplete.