Maryland Code, HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2-302
Terms Used In Maryland Code, HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2-302
- County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
- including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- state: means :
(1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or
(2) the District of Columbia. See
(1) the efforts by the State, political subdivisions, and housing authorities to promote fair housing choice and racial and economic housing integration, and the results of those efforts, delineated by county; and
(2) any assessment of fair housing required under § 3-114(d)(2) of the Land Use Article completed since the most recent report required under this subsection, including any assessment of fair housing completed or revised under the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development’s most recently published Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule.
(b) The report required under subsection (a) of this section shall provide an update on the actions being taken by local jurisdictions to affirmatively further fair housing.
(c) The Department shall work in partnership with each local jurisdiction to jointly develop and complete a template to capture data in the jurisdiction related to affirmatively furthering fair housing.