24 C.F.R. § 511.13 Nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative marketing requirements.
Title 24 - Housing and Urban Development
In addition to the nondiscrimination and equal opportunity requirements set forth in 24 CFR part 5, the following requirements apply: (a) Affirmative marketing. The grantee shall adopt appropriate procedures and requirements for affirmatively marketing units in rehabilitated rental rehabilitation projects through the provision of information regarding the availability of units that are vacant after rehabilitation or that later become vacant. Affirmative marketing steps consist of good faith efforts to provide information and otherwise to attract eligible persons from all racial, ethnic and gender groups in the housing market area to the available housing. (These affirmative marketing procedures will not apply to units rented to families with housing assistance provided by a PHA.) The grantee shall establish procedures, requirements and assessment criteria for marketing units in the Rental Rehabilitation Program that are appropriate to accomplish affirmative marketing objectives. The grantee shall annually assess the affirmative marketing program to determine: Good faith efforts that have been made to carry out such procedures and requirements; objectives that have been met; and corrective actions that are required. (1) For each grantee, the affirmative marketing requirements and procedures adopted must include: (i) Methods for how the grantee will inform the public, owners and potential tenants about Federal fair housing laws and the grantee's affirmative marketing policy (such as the use of the Equal Housing Opportunity logotype or slogan in press releases and solicitations for owners, and written communications to fair housing and other groups); (ii) Requirements and practices each owner (including the grantee or any other public owner) must adhere to in order to carry out the grantee's affirmative marketing procedures and requirements (e.g., use of commercial media, use of community contacts, use of the Equal Housing Opportunity logotype or slogan, display of fair housing poster); (iii) Procedures to be used by owners (including the grantee or any other public owner) to inform and solicit applications from persons in the housing market area who are not likely to apply for the housing without special outreach (e.g., use of community organizations, churches, employment centers, fair housing groups or housing counseling agencies); (iv) Records that will be kept describing efforts taken by the grantee and by the owners (including the grantee or any other public owner) to affirmatively market units and records to assess the results of these actions; (v) A description of how the grantee will assess the affirmative marketing efforts of owners (including the grantee or any other public owner), and the results of those efforts, and what corrective actions will be taken where an owner fails to follow these affirmative marketing requirements. (2) For States distributing rental rehabilitation grant amounts to units of general local government, the affirmative marketing procedures and requirements shall also set out the actions that State recipients must take to meet the objectives set out in §511.13(b), the record keeping and reporting requirements such State will require of State recipients, and the procedures that such State will follow to determine what action has been taken by State recipients to assess the results of these affirmative marketing efforts. (3) The grantee or State recipient shall require compliance with the conditions of its affirmative marketing requirements and procedures adopted under paragraph (b) of this section by means of an agreement with the owner that shall be applicable for a period of ten years beginning on the date of completion of rehabilitation, as defined in §511.2. (b) [Reserved] [55 FR 20050, May 14, 1990, as amended at 61 FR 5208, Feb. 9, 1996]
Title 24: Housing and Urban Development
PART 511—RENTAL REHABILITATON GRANT PROGRAM
Subpart B—Program Requirements
§ 511.13 Nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative marketing requirements.
