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provide better access to jobs, medical care, and other services within Cabarrus County for all citizens. The CK Rider has an extensive route system that connects with other transportation systems such as Charlotte DOT to provide unprecedented access to employment from many areas within Cabarrus County. Providing transportation to employment, necessities, and services provides more housing choice to low to moderate income and disabled persons. Cabarrus County has applied for and used Community Development Block Grant funds for housing rehabilitation and community revitalization over the years. Cabarrus County recently installed a public water system in a low income minority community. This activity may encourage people to stay in a largely segregated area, however, it will increase the property values and quality of life of those in the community. Low income neighborhoods, with and without minority concentrations, have been targeted for this work. The housing rehabilitation programs the County is currently administering are all scattered site housing rehabilitation. These actions may have caused individuals or families to stay in neighborhoods rather than move to more integrated neighborhoods. Additionally, the older public housing is located in an area of high minority concentration. The location of Concord's public housing may encourage segregation as well. A newer public housing facility was constructed in a more racially diverse area several years ago, however, it is much smaller than the main facility. 5. PHA and Other Assisted /Insured Housing Provider Tenant Selection Procedures; Housing Choices for Certificate and Voucher Holders Unable to acquire this document for a local review. 6. Sale of Subsidized Housing and Possible Displacement The City of Concord, Habitat for Humanity, and Prosperity Unlimited all provide subsidized housing for sale. It is provided in the form of down payment assistance, subsidized loans, reimbursement of water and sewer tap fees as well as other benefits. Cabarrus County does not produce homes for sale to private buyers and other jurisdictions are producing less new affordable housing due to difficulty finding qualified persons. The recession has had an adverse effect on low to moderate income homebuyers. There have been less people who qualify for loans, subsidized or not. Local governments have been involved with very little demolition activities that would cause displacement. Due to market conditions and new conversion to rental requirements by HUD, new construction by community development organizations has drastically slowed. Other forms of assistance that are preventing displacement from affordable housing have been foreclosure prevention activities. Cabarrus County, the City of Concord, the City of Kannapolis, Prosperity Unlimited, and Concord First Assembly Church provided a large foreclosure prevention and Fair Housing workshop at the beginning of the housing crisis. Housing counselors, attorneys, service providers, and other agencies were available at the 211Page Analysis of Impediments September 2015 Attachment number 2 \n F -6 Page 113