HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary Bryan Greene Travels to Kansas City

Speaker at 8th Annual Fair Housing Civil Rights Summit.

The Civil Rights Division of the City of Kansas City Human Relations Department held its 8th Annual Civil Rights Summit. It was held on April 22, 2016. Bryan Greene, General Deputy Assistant Secretary (GDAS) for HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, served as the keynote speaker for the event.

The summit workshops focused on several issues including the effects of residential segregation, disability discrimination, equal/unequal treatment in education, and environmental justice in the urban core.

HUD Staff, Kansas City Regional Office, and GDAS Bryan Greene (Center).

GDAS Greene provided more insight to the recent Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Final Rule. Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) means taking meaningful actions to address significant disparities in housing needs and access to opportunity, replacing segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living patterns, transforming racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity, and fostering and maintaining compliance with civil rights and fair housing laws.

The rule clarifies existing fair housing obligations with a streamlined process to analyze the local fair housing landscape and set fair housing priorities and goals through an Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH). Based on required timeframes, HUD's program participants will begin using the AFH process to set fair housing goals to increase fair housing choice and provide equal access to opportunity for all community members.

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