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<br />Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing City of Pleasanton | F-27 <br />HCD and TCAC prepared opportunity maps to identify census tracts with the highest and lowest <br />resources. High resource areas are areas with high index scores for a variety of opportunity <br />indicators. Examples of indicators of high resources areas include high employment rates, low <br />poverty rates, proximity to jobs, high educational proficiency, and limited exposure to <br />environmental health hazards. High resources tracts are areas that offer low-income residents the <br />best chance of a high quality of life, whether through economic advancement, high educational <br />attainment, or clean environmental health. Census tracts in the city that are categorized as <br />moderate resource areas have access to many of the same resources as the high resource areas <br />but may have fewer job opportunities, lower performing schools, lower median home values, or <br />other factors that lower their indexes across the various economic, educational, and environmental <br />indicators. <br />Low resources areas are characterized as having fewer opportunities to employment and <br />education, or a lower index for other economic, environmental, and educational indicators. These <br />areas have greater quality of life needs and should be prioritized for future investment to improve <br />opportunities for current and future residents. <br />The opportunity maps inform TCAC, which oversees the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) <br />Program, to distribute funding more equitably for affordable housing in areas with the highest <br />opportunity. The analysis evaluates total access to opportunity (e.g., high, moderate, low), but also <br />individually assesses opportunity access across more specific indicators, such as education, <br />transportation, economic development, and environment. <br />TCAC Opportunity Areas – Composite Score <br />The TCAC Opportunity Areas 2022 Composite Score provides an aggregate index of three <br />domains: economic, education, and environmental. Census tracts with higher composite scores <br />indicate higher resource areas overall. The 2022 TCAC Composite Score is shown in Figure F-13. <br />Pleasanton has two different levels of resource areas: highest and high. According to the Alameda <br />County AI, across the cities included in their report, White and Asian or Pacific Islander residents <br />tend to live in neighborhoods with a lower rate of poverty and have higher access to proficiency <br />schools and the labor market. Pleasanton is a high resource community as shown in Figure F-13 <br />and aligning with the Alameda County AI, Pleasanton has significantly more White and more Asian <br />or Pacific Islander residents than other races (and compared to the County as a whole). <br /> <br /> <br />