Specifications include, but are not limited to: The selected contractor/consultant must provide the following analysis and have the ability to develop/utilize a methodology in preparing the AI that will include a review of impediments to fair housing choices in the public and private sectors, including but not limited to: 1. A comprehensive review of the City’s codes, ordinances, administrative policies, practices and procedures; 2. An assessment of how those laws, etc., affect the location, availability and accessibility to housing choice 3. An assessment of local residents and the real estate industry’s awareness of fair housing issues; 4. An assessment of current land use and group home practices; 5. An analysis of differences in property tax rates, controlling for home value and year of purchase, for different racial groups within the City; 6. An assessment of job opportunities in relationship to area or residential concentration of minorities and other classes of persons protected by the Fair Housing Act; 7. Documentation of the nature and extent of fair housing complaints/lawsuits or other data that may evidence achievement of or lack of fair housing choices; 8. Patterns of ownership versus rental, housing density, housing age and/or condition, overcrowding, income, family size, residency tenure, bank loans by type, etc.; 9. Demographic overview of Tuscaloosa, showing how the City compares to the county as a whole in racial composition, homeownership by race, affluence, and poverty by race and trends since 2000.