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cjrl-2318	Smith, Raquel	A Seat at the Table: Changing the Governing Structure of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program Administration to Reflect Civil Rights Values and Fair Housing	2016	18	.pdf	application/pdf	10245	401	42	In fact, the LIHTC policies that prefer development in minority, high-poverty areas seem to be in direct contrast with some of the overarching goals of the FHA to affirmatively further fair housing by deconcentrating poverty and promoting racial integration.74 In particular, a study conducted by the Fair Housing Justice Center which focused on LIHTC housing in New York City and its suburbs determined that seventy-one percent of the LIHTC affordable housing units were located in areas of “high or extreme poverty.”75 76 A Brookings study found that the neighborhoods containing LIHTC housing contained disproportionate shares of Black residents.77 While Blacks made up only fifteen percent of total metropolitan residents in 2000, they accounted for twenty-six percent of the LIHTC neighborhoods population.78 Blacks also made up thirty-four percent of the population in central-city LIHTC neighborhoods, versus their fifteen percent proportion in suburban LIHTC neighborhoods.79 Furthermore, Abt Associates conducted another study in 2006 analyzing LIHTC units with two or more bedrooms used between 1995 and 2003, located in metropolitan areas with populations greater 74 See LARRY BURON, SANDRA NOLDEN, KATHLEEN HEINTZI & JULIE STEWART, ABT ASSOCIATES, INC., ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LIHTC RESIDENTS AND NEIGHBORHOODS (2000); William Callison, Achieving Our Country: Geographic Desegregation and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, 19 S. CAL.	cache/cjrl-2318.pdf	txt/cjrl-2318.txt