| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Peter J. Vodola |
CONNECTICUT'S AFFORDABLE HOUSING APPEALS PROCEDURE LAW IN PRACTICE |
29 Connecticut Law Review 1235 (Spring, 1997) |
In 1995, the Connecticut Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision allowing a local developer to build up to ninety housing units of affordable housing on forty-eight acres in Danbury. The percentage of housing units in Danbury that meet the Affordable Housing Land Use Appeals Procedure Act's statutory definition of affordable housing is 9.79%.... |
1997 |
| Jim Chen |
EMBRYONIC THOUGHTS ON RACIAL IDENTITY AS NEW PROPERTY |
68 University of Colorado Law Review 1123 (Fall 1997) |
Bakke has come of age. In the nineteen years since Justice Lewis Powell proclaimed that diversity clearly is a constitutionally permissible goal for an institution of higher education, Bakke has become a transformative, even religious experience for champions of race-based educational affirmative action. For Michael A. Olivas, the survival of... |
1997 |
| J. Mark Powell |
FAIR HOUSING IN THE UNITED STATES: A LEGAL RESPONSE TO MUNICIPAL INTRANSIGENCE |
1997 University of Illinois Law Review 279 (1997) |
Despite the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968, rising housing costs and enduring racism continue to limit the availability of affordable housing to minority families. Commentators agree that thus far both judicial and legislative approaches to the problem have proven ineffective. Legal challenges to discriminatory government action, whether... |
1997 |
| Jason Dzubow |
FEAR-FREE PUBLIC HOUSING?: AN EVALUATION OF HUD'S "ONE STRIKE AND YOU'RE OUT" HOUSING POLICY |
6 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 55 (Fall 1996-Spring 1997) |
Tommy Lee Hogan had already been named in two warrants for assaulting his ex-girlfriend when he walked into a Krystal Kwik restaurant in Milledgeville, Georgia, on March 29, 1996, and shot her in the head. The eighteen-year-old then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. Less then two weeks after her son's death, Sherry Hogan received an... |
1997 |
| Eugene R. Gaetke , Robert G. Schwemm |
GOVERNMENT LAWYERS AND THEIR PRIVATE "CLIENTS" UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
65 George Washington Law Review 329 (March, 1997) |
In strengthening enforcement of the federal Fair Housing Act, Congress in the 1988 Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA) authorized government lawyers from the Justice Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and state and local civil rights agencies to prosecute cases on behalf of persons aggrieved by housing discrimination.... |
1997 |
| Christina Victoria Tusan |
HOMELESS FAMILIES FROM 1980-1996: CASUALTIES OF DECLINING SUPPORT FOR THE WAR ON POVERTY |
70 Southern California Law Review 1141 (May, 1997) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 1142 II. A PORTRAIT OF HOMELESS FAMILIES: DISPELLING THE MYTHS. 1146 A. Mental Illness. 1148 B. Substance Abuse. 1153 C. Marital Status. 1157 D. History of Work and History of Dependence on Welfare. 1162 E. Criminal Activity. 1165 III. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO HOMELESSNESS. 1166 A. Declining Income Levels. 1167 B. Decreases in... |
1997 |
| James E. Robertson |
HOUSES OF THE DEAD: WAREHOUSE PRISONS, PARADIGM CHANGE, AND THE SUPREME COURT |
34 Houston Law Review 1003 (Winter 1997) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 1004 II. The Paradigm Shift. 1008 A. From Corporal Punishment to Warehouse Prisons. 1008 B. The New Penal Regime. 1015 1. Public Access. 1015 2. Injury-Type. 1017 3. Culpability. 1020 III. The Contemporary Warehouse Prison. 1022 A. Warehousing Defined. 1022 B. The Origins of Warehousing. 1026 C. Warehousing As... |
1997 |
| Cheryl P. Derricotte |
POVERTY AND PROPERTY IN THE UNITED STATES: A PRIMER ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HOUSING DISCRIMINATION AND THE IMPORTANCE OF A U.S. RIGHT TO HOUSING |
40 Howard Law Journal 689 (Spring 1997) |
This essay is dedicated to our collective memory of those who thrived, fought, died and in all too few instances survived, (places like) Rosewood, FL. With a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and... |
1997 |
| Mark Cordes |
PROPERTY AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT |
31 University of Richmond Law Review 1 (January, 1997) |
The last decade has seen an increased recognition of property rights in Supreme Court analysis. This is most evident in the area of takings law, where the Court has on at least four occasions expanded property rights relative to government regulation. Perhaps even more significant than the results themselves has been the Court's tone in these... |
1997 |
| Marc R. Poirier |
PROPERTY, ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNITY |
12 Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation 43 (1997) |
Too often I have heard or read set pieces on the topic of property rights and the environment. They seem to come in two flavors. The property rights encomium lauds the institution of private property as the guardian of every other right and the best hope for individual freedom in a world of suspect majoritarian government. The environmental... |
1997 |
| Aya Gruber |
PUBLIC HOUSING IN SINGAPORE: THE USE OF ENDS-BASED REASONING IN THE QUEST FOR A WORKABLE SYSTEM |
38 Harvard International Law Journal 236 (Winter, 1997) |
Singapore's monumental achievements in public housing have astounded supporters and critics alike. Law Professor W.J.M. Ricquier of the National University of Singapore has stated, To say that {Singapore's housing} achievements have been Herculean would scarcely be an exaggeration. Many applaud the Singapore government for transforming a tiny,... |
1997 |
| F. Willis Caruso , Mark Brennan |
PUBLIC HOUSING PRIVATIZATION USING SECTION 8 VOUCHERS AND I.R.C. SECTION 42 LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDITS IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF LEASE TO PURCHASE OPTIONS |
16 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 355 (1997) |
Since the enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the continued presence of high interest rates, the downsizing of the federal government, especially the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the cut back of all but a few of HUD's federal housing programs have made developing affordable housing more difficult in the 1990s. With... |
1997 |
| Sigrid Kun |
RACE HORSES AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: RACING TOWARDS RECOGNITION? |
17 QLR 207 (Summer 1997) |
The champion racehorse Cigar is now in retirement. His sixteen-race unbeaten streak, equaling the modern day record of Citation, is now history. Cigar, however, may become important to the horse racing world, particularly the horse owners, in a quite different manner. Cigar may be forging a path to judicial recognition of intellectual property... |
1997 |
| Ian S. Tattenbaum |
RENEWAL FOR THE 1990S: AN ANALYSIS OF NEW YORK CITY REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS IN LIGHT OF TITLE I OF THE HOUSING ACT OF 1949 |
6 New York University Environmental Law Journal 220 (1997) |
Introduction. 221 I. Title I and its Historical Foundations. 223 A. Title I. 223 B. The Physical Redevelopment Paradigm. 226 1. The Birth of American Urban Planning. 226 2. Suburbanization and the Obsolescence of Cities. 227 II. Title I in New York City. 228 A. New York State Historical Context. 229 B. Title I Funding in New York City. 230 C.... |
1997 |
| Chester Hartman |
REPORT ON THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COLLOQUIUM CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPING A RESEARCH AGENDA TO MOVE THE NATION TOWARDS A RIGHT TO DECENT, AFFORDABLE HOUSING HELD AT SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL ON OCTOBER 24, 1997. |
27 Seton Hall Law Review 1496a (1997) |
Following the Affordable Housing Colloquium Conference-- Mount Laurel: What Lessons Have We Learned?, the Colloquium called together housing researchers for a conference to develop a national housing research agenda that would advance the nation to the goal of decent, affordable housing for all. In attendance: Rachel Bratt (Tufts), David Bryson... |
1997 |
| Deborah Dubroff |
SEXUAL HARASSMENT, FAIR HOUSING, AND REMEDIES: EXPANDING STATUTORY REMEDIES INTO A COMMON LAW FRAMEWORK |
19 Thomas Jefferson Law Review 215 (Summer 1997) |
Claire, a single mother, rents an apartment in a building in California from her landlord Stanley who lives in a house next door. She pays Stanley her first month's rent and a deposit ($600 and $500 respectively). Shortly after moving in, Stanley begins a pattern of sexually propositioning Claire who explicitly rebuffs each advance. Stanley leers... |
1997 |
| Brian Gardiner |
SQUATTERS' RIGHTS AND ADVERSE POSSESSION: A SEARCH FOR EQUITABLE APPLICATION OF PROPERTY LAWS |
8 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 119 (1997) |
Human history has been an endless struggle for control of the earth's surface; and conquest, or the acquisition of property by force, has been one of its more ruthless expedients. With the surge of population from the rural lands to the cities, a new type of conquest has been manifesting itself in the cites of the developing world. Its form is... |
1997 |
| Glenn P. Sugameli |
TAKINGS BILLS THREATEN PRIVATE PROPERTY, PEOPLE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT |
8 Fordham Environmental Law Journal 521 (1997) |
Proponents of takings bills rely on two unfounded claims: that takings bills will protect private property and that such bills track the Constitution's Fifth Amendment clause, nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. In fact, as this article demonstrates, takings bills would harm property and other rights... |
1997 |
| Leif Wenar |
THE CONCEPT OF PROPERTY AND THE TAKINGS CLAUSE |
97 Columbia Law Review 1923 (October, 1997) |
Leif Wenar examines the impact on takings scholarship of the redefinition of property early in the twentieth century. He argues that the Hohfeldian characterization of property as rights (instead of as tangible things) forced major scholars such as Michelman, Sax, and Epstein into extreme interpretations of the Takings Clause. This extremism is... |
1997 |
| Carol Pressman |
THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT: JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG, GENDER AND JUSTICE |
14 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 311 (Symposium, 1997) |
In 1959, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and eleven other female law students graduated from Columbia Law School. Despite graduating first. in her class, she received no offers from law firms. I applied for clerkships to every judge in the southern district, in the eastern district, and again, no one was interested. Finding her first job out of law... |
1997 |
| Deborah Zalesne |
THE INTERSECTION OF SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS AND GENDER IN HOSTILE HOUSING ENVIRONMENT CLAIMS UNDER TITLE VIII: WHO IS THE REASONABLE PERSON? |
38 Boston College Law Review 861 (September, 1997) |
Sexual Harassment, most broadly defined, refers to the unwanted imposition of sexual requirements in the context of a relationship of unequal power. -Catharine A. MacKinnon The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; but the... |
1997 |
| Mairi N. Morrison |
THE KNOWLEDGE/POWER DILEMMA AND THE MYTH OF THE SUPERMOTHER : A CRITIQUE OF THE INNOCENT OWNER DEFENSE IN NARCOTICS FORFEITURE OF THE FAMILY HOME |
7 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 55 (1997) |
In the projects, somebody can call your mother a one-legged whore who does nasty tricks for men for five dollars and she will be the most important influential person in your childhood. She is the only one a child can depend upon for survival.But aren't all mothers everywhere the control figure in the eyes of a child? Mostly the answer is yes. But... |
1997 |
| Corinne Anne Carey |
THE NEED FOR COMMUNITY-BASED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN INTEGRATION EFFORTS |
7-Fall Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 85 (Fall, 1997) |
The community that seeks to seal itself off from the social crises of our time to live in quiet luxury in the midst of segregate squalor, is violating the most basic standards of morality.. A balanced housing supply, on the other hand, brings with it all the advantages of cultural diversity, and the satisfaction of contributing one's share toward... |
1997 |
| W. Dennis Keating |
THE PARMA HOUSING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION REMEDY REVISITED |
45 Cleveland State Law Review 235 (1997) |
I. Introduction. 235 II. United States v. Parma: The Fair Housing Lawsuit (1973-1980). 237 III. The Original Remedy: 1980-1982. 239 IV. Implementation of the Original Remedy (1982-1996). 241 V. The New Remedy: 1996. 243 VI. Conclusion. 248 |
1997 |
| John D. Echeverria |
THE POLITICS OF PROPERTY RIGHTS |
50 Oklahoma Law Review 351 (Fall, 1997) |
Until about five years ago, the courts had essentially exclusive, rather sleepy dominion over the property rights issue. Today, legislation addressing the issue has been debated repeatedly in Congress and in almost every state legislature. Several state ballot contests have been fought over property rights. And property rights have become a... |
1997 |
| Brian E. Davis |
THE STATE GIVETH AND THE COURT TAKETH AWAY: PRESERVING THE MUNICIPALITY'S ABILITY TO ZONE FOR GROUP HOMES UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING AMENDMENTS ACT OF 1988 |
59 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 193 (Fall 1997) |
The regulation of land use through local zoning and building codes is a matter of local concern. Nearly every state has surrendered, in whole or in part, that incident of its sovereignty to the local municipality. Indeed, zoning is one of the most basic functions performed by local governments. However, numerous courts have begun to erode the... |
1997 |
| Patrick Field, Jennifer Gilbert, Michael Wheeler |
TRADING THE POOR: INTERMUNICIPAL HOUSING NEGOTIATION IN NEW JERSEY |
2 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 1 (Spring 1997) |
In 1993 the township of Wayne, New Jersey, agreed to pay more than eight million dollars to escape a state mandate that required it to provide nearly 500 units of affordable housing. This payment was not an illegal bribe to a highly placed state official; rather, it was a statutorily authorized deal with Paterson, a nearby city, which agreed to... |
1997 |
| Janet Ellen Stearns |
VOLUNTARY BONDS: THE IMPACT OF HABITAT II ON U.S. HOUSING POLICY |
16 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 419 (1997) |
Here in Istanbul, independent, sovereign nations have come together in pursuit of a common goal: a world in which all people have access to decent and affordable housing; a world with neighborhoods that are free of street crime and assaults on personal safety; a world in which all people have access to the educational opportunities necessary to... |
1997 |
| Peter W. Salsich, Jr. |
WELFARE REFORM: IS SELF SUFFICIENCY FEASIBLE WITHOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING? |
2 Michigan Law and Policy Review 43 (1997) |
Two presidential actions during the height of the 1996 election campaign dramatized the inevitable link between federal housing and welfare policies. Both involved the approval of major domestic legislation, but as Jason DeParle of The New York Times Magazine observed, one action was attended to with presidential flair, the other was hardly... |
1997 |
| Robert C. McConkey III |
"CAMPING ORDINANCES" AND THE HOMELESS: CONSTITUTIONAL AND MORAL ISSUES RAISED BY ORDINANCES PROHIBITING SLEEPING IN PUBLIC AREAS |
26 Cumberland Law Review 633 (1995-1996) |
In October 1992, after several years of conflict with its homeless population, the city of Santa Ana, California enacted an ordinance banning camping and the storage of personal property on public streets and other public grounds. The ordinance defines camping broadly as to pitch or occupy camp facilities; to live temporarily in a camp facility... |
1996 |
| William D. Green |
"CRITICAL MASS IS FIFTEEN COLORED'S!" DE FACTO & DE JURE POLICIES OF RACIAL ISOLATION IN ST. PAUL'S SCHOOLS AND HOUSING PATTERNS DURING THE 19TH CENTURY, AND BEYOND |
17 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 299 (Spring, 1996) |
For ten years, during the period when America was embroiled in the Civil War, St. Paulthe capital of one of the most liberal states in the Unionpersistently embarked on a policy that segregated black children from white children. It was a policy that reflected the times when northern blacks lived a paradoxical existence of being tolerated by... |
1996 |
| Keith Aoki |
(INTELLECTUAL) PROPERTY AND SOVEREIGNTY: NOTES TOWARD A CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF AUTHORSHIP |
48 Stanford Law Review 1293 (May, 1996) |
Keith Aoki discusses the challenge that the rise of digital information technology poses to traditional legal conceptions of property. He chronicles the evolution of the idea of property and its relationship to sovereignty in Anglo-American law. In contrast to developments in other areas of property law, the legal characterization and... |
1996 |
| Alicia Alvarez |
A CALL FOR FAIRNESS: THE HISTORICAL AND CONTINUING EXCLUSION OF LATINOS FROM PUBLIC HOUSING IN CHICAGO |
9 La Raza Law Journal 155 (1996) |
This article will discuss the problems faced by the Latino population of the City of Chicago (City) in accessing public and subsidized housing programs administered by the Chicago Housing Authority and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Latinos have historically been excluded from these programs in Chicago. This... |
1996 |
| Thomas D. Russell |
A NEW IMAGE OF THE SLAVE AUCTION: AN EMPIRICAL LOOK AT THE ROLE OF LAW IN SLAVE SALES AND A CONCEPTUAL REEVALUATION OF SLAVE PROPERTY |
18 Cardozo Law Review 473 (November, 1996) |
The slave auction is among the most powerful images in the history of the United States. Depictions of slave auctions vary, but of the recurring compositional elements, the most fearful and moving is the separation by sale of a young child from his or her mother. The slave auction image starkly represents the inhumanity of American slavery, the... |
1996 |
| Kenneth B. Clark |
BEYOND BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION: HOUSING AND EDUCATION IN THE YEAR 2000 |
80 Minnesota Law Review 745 (April, 1996) |
The Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education spawned a collective hope and dream for an end to racial segregation in American public schools. I joined in the optimism. I spoke and wrote buoyantly, confident in our future. At the time, I believed there would be positive changes within a decade or more. I thought that I, and the... |
1996 |
| Andrea Panjwani |
BEYOND THE BELTWAY: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN THE HOUSING CONTEXT |
5-WTR Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 109 (Winter, 1996) |
There has been much discussion and debate about the constitutionality and efficacy of affirmative action in the contexts of education, employment, voting, and federal contracts. There is also a lower-profile controversy concerning affirmative action efforts in housing. Affirmative action efforts in housing include attempts by housing providers to... |
1996 |
| Gabriel J. Chin , Denise C. Morgan |
BREAKING INTO THE ACADEMY: THE 1996-97 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF RACE & LAW GUIDE FOR ASPIRING LAW PROFESSORS |
1 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 551 (Summer 1996) |
I was not very far into my law school experience when I realized that my professors had the best job in town--it took me quite a bit longer to discover that I, too, could get in on the deal. Do not misunderstand me: being a law professor is not easy. In fact, to be done correctly, the job requires a tremendous amount of intellectual energy and... |
1996 |
| Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol |
BUILDING BRIDGES: BRINGING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS HOME |
9 La Raza Law Journal 69 (Spring, 1996) |
This commentary on Building Bridges was prepared in connection with a panel presentation addressing the same theme by Latina/o law professors during the 1995 Hispanic National Bar Association's annual meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It urges that we globalize our domestic legal practice by integrating international human rights norms as a means... |
1996 |
| Michelle R.K. Todus |
CITY OF EDMONDS V. OXFORD HOUSE, INC.: OPENING DOORS TO HOUSING FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS |
26 Golden Gate University Law Review 737 (Spring, 1996) |
In City of Edmonds v. Oxford House, Inc., the United States Supreme Court held that the Fair Housing Act's (hereinafter the FHA) broad exemption for local maximum occupancy restrictions did not apply to the City's single family zoning restrictions. Although the City's ordinance did not qualify for exemption from the FHA, the Supreme Court held... |
1996 |
| David Franklin |
CIVIL RIGHTS vs. CIVIL LIBERTIES? THE LEGALITY OF STATE COURT LAWSUITS UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
63 University of Chicago Law Review 1607 (Fall, 1996) |
Consider the following scenario: An individual contracts to purchase a house in a single-family neighborhood, intending to use the property as a group home for mentally handicapped teenagers. Local residents are concerned about the impact these newcomers will have on their neighborhood. The residents file a lawsuit in state court, seeking to enjoin... |
1996 |
| Stephen J. Zralek |
CIVIL RIGHTS-42 U.S.C. ยง 1982-EXPANDING PROTECTION TO INCLUDE NON-OWNER USERS OF PROPERTY UNITED STATES v. BROWN, 49 F. 3D 1162 (6TH CIR. 1995). |
63 Tennessee Law Review 471 (Winter, 1996) |
On June 9, 1990, Jonathan David Brown met with fellow white supremacists Damion Patton and Leonard William Armstrong in Nashville. The next morning, at approximately 1:00 a.m., the three men rode along West End Avenue in Nashville as Armstrong fired several bullets into a synagogue. Later that morning, Patton was arrested. On June 11, 1990, Patton... |
1996 |
| Jack Vanhoorelbeke |
CIVIL RIGHTS--ZONING AND PLANNING--ZONING PROVISIONS THAT GOVERN AREAS ZONED FOR SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLINGS, DEFINING FAMILY AS PERSONS RELATED BY GENETICS, ADOPTION, MARRIAGE OR A GROUP OF FIVE OR FEWER UNRELATED PERSONS, DESCRIBE THOSE WHICH MAY COMPOSE A |
74 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 135 (Fall 1996) |
Oxford House operated a group home in Edmonds, Washington, and housed ten to twelve adults recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction in a neighborhood zoned as single-family residential. The City of Edmonds issued criminal citations to the owner and one resident of the group home. Oxford House was charged with violating the City's zoning code... |
1996 |
| Rebecca A. Wistner |
COHABITATION, FORNICATION AND THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION: LANDLO RDS SEEKING RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION FROM FAIR HOUSING LAWS |
46 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1071 (Summer 1996) |
Suppose that two individuals contact a landlord and tell her they are seeking rental housing. Upon learning that the couple is not married, the landlord refuses to rent an apartment to them, indicating that cohabitation is against her religion. The state fair housing law prohibits discrimination in housing on the basis of marital status, so the... |
1996 |
| Allen H. Sanders |
DAMAGING INDIAN TREATY FISHERIES: A VIOLATION OF TRIBAL PROPERTY RIGHTS? |
17 Public Land & Resources Law Review 153 (1996) |
In seven decisions spanning over seventy years, the United States Supreme Court has upheld the unique value and solemn import of Indian treaty fishing rights. Uncertainty remains, however, over whether non-Indians may diminish or even destroy, with impunity, the fish that tribes have a treaty-secured right of taking. One case, pending in the Ninth... |
1996 |
| Jeanne L. Schroeder |
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION: THE MYTH THAT THE U.C.C. KILLED "PROPERTY" |
69 Temple Law Review 1281 (Winter 1996) |
I. The Bundle of Sticks. 1282 A. The Myth of the Disaggregation of Property. 1282 B. The Gates of Horn and Ivory. 1284 C. Article 2 As Text. 1291 1. Evidence for the Disaggregation of Property. 1291 2. Article 2's Clandestine Affair with Title'. 1292 II. The Wit and Wisdom of Karl Llewellyn. 1294 A. Differentiating Property from Contract. 1295 B.... |
1996 |
| Mark A. Malaspina |
DEMANDING THE BEST: HOW TO RESTRUCTURE THE SECTION 8 HOUSEHOLD-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM |
14 Yale Law and Policy Review 287 (1996) |
[The Section 8 household-based subsidy program] is a big and very effective program. It has virtually no downside except that it costs money to authorize more vouchers. . . . We don't have any problem getting landlords to accept Section 8 vouchers anywhere because they are guaranteed to be paid by the federal government. --Henry G. Cisneros,... |
1996 |
| Charles E. Connerly , Marc Smith |
DEVELOPING A FAIR SHARE HOUSING POLICY FOR FLORIDA |
12 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 63 (Fall, 1996) |
I. Introduction. 63 II. The Need for Fair Share Housing in Florida. 67 III. Florida as a Test Case for Fair Share Housing. 68 IV. Fair Share Housing Practice Outside of Florida. 72 A. The Federal Government and Fair Share Housing. 73 B. California Housing Element Requirements for Fair Share Housing. 78 C. New Jersey Fair Housing Law. 80 D.... |
1996 |
| Kimberly E. O'Leary |
DIALOGUE, PERSPECTIVE AND POINT OF VIEW AS LAWYERING METHOD: A NEW APPROACH TO EVALUATING ANTI-CRIME MEASURES IN SUBSIDIZED HOUSING |
49 Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 133 (Summer 1996) |
During the past decade, this country's subsidized housing residents have seen incidents of violent crime increase dramatically in their communities. Across the country, local law enforcement and housing authorities have joined together to develop a variety of anti-crime measures. At the federal level, the Department of Housing and Urban Development... |
1996 |
| Kevin J. Zanner |
DISPERSION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SITING OF GROUP HOMES: RECONCILING NEW YORK'S PADAVAN LAW WITH THE FAIR HOUSING AMENDMENTS ACT OF 1988 |
44 Buffalo Law Review 249 (Winter 1996) |
Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves, convened for the purpose. The deinstitutionalization of individuals with mental and physical handicaps through the use of residential group home... |
1996 |
| Kristopher E. Ahrend |
EFFECT, OR NO EFFECT: A COMPARISON OF PRIMA FACIE STANDARDS APPLIED IN "DISPARATE IMPACT" CASES BROUGHT UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT (TITLE VIII) |
2 Race and Ethnic Ancestry Law Digest 64 (Spring, 1996) |
L1-4Table of Contents L1-4 I. L2-4Introduction L1-4 II. L2-4An Analysis of the Prima Facie Standards Applied to Disparate Impact Claims Brought Under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) A. L3-4The Split as Noted Within the Ninth Circuit B. L3-4The Effect-Only Standard 1. United States v. City of Black Jack 2. Resident Advisory Board v. Rizzo C. L3-4The... |
1996 |