| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Candace L. Castillo |
HOUSE BILL 3: AN IOU TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR CANNOT AFFORD |
23 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 57 (2021) |
Introduction. 58 I. History of Texas School Finance. 61 A. Edgewood ISD v. Kirby. 62 B. Morath v. Texas Taxpayer (Edgewood VII). 65 C. The Failings of Texas's School Finance System. 67 II. The Basic Mechanics of School Finance. 68 III. HB 3. 70 A. Inequitable Tax Compression. 71 B. Changes to the Recapture Program. 74 C. HB 3 Lacks a Sustainable... |
2021 |
| Maria Massimo |
HOUSING AS A RIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES: MITIGATING THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS USING AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW APPROACH |
62 Boston College Law Review 273 (January, 2021) |
Abstract: Throughout its history, the United States has perpetuated a double standard in regard to international human rights by urging other nations to protect and promote these rights, while simultaneously forgoing international human rights treaties in favor of its own Constitution and domestic human rights laws. Notably, the United States does... |
2021 |
| Cayla Keenan |
HOUSING LAW--NOT OVER THIS THRESHOLD: THE CRISIS OF CONTINUED HOUSING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST QUEER AMERICANS--SMITH v. AVANTI, 249 F. SUPP. 3D 1194 (D. COLO. 2017) |
26 Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy 157 (2020-2021) |
As of 2019, there are no federal laws that protect against housing discrimination for LGBTQIA+ (queer) Americans. Protections against discrimination on the basis of sex were added to the Fair Housing Act in 1974, however, there are still no federal legal protections that prevent housing discrimination against queer people. In many of these... |
2021 |
| Sophia A. Studer |
HOW JUDICIAL APPLICATION OF CDA § 230 AND FHA § 3604 HAVE CREATED SAFE HAVENS FOR ONLINE HOUSING DISCRIMINATION |
28 Richmond Journal of Law and Technology 378 (Winter 2021) |
This article analyzes how the anti-discrimination language of Fair Housing Act section 3604 is currently out of reach for people being discriminated against online through the exclusionary language of Communications Decency Act section 230(c). The exclusionary language in CDA section 230(c) prevents liability from attaching to interactive computer... |
2021 |
| Stewart E. Sterk |
INCENTIVIZING FAIR HOUSING |
101 Boston University Law Review 1607 (October, 2021) |
Restrictive land use regulation has thwarted the upward mobility of many Americans, particularly Americans of color. Local restrictions imposed by affluent municipalities have limited access to safe neighborhoods, better housing, and good schools. Racism and economic self-interest have both played a role in exclusionary practices which have... |
2021 |
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KEEPING CURRENT--PROPERTY |
35-APR Probate and Property 20 (March/April, 2021) |
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS: Pay-if-paid term in subcontract that requires surrender of right to timely payment is void. APCO Construction, Inc., the general contractor on a mixed-use development project, entered into a subcontract with Zitting Brothers Construction, Inc. to perform wood framing, sheathing, and shimming work. The subcontract required... |
2021 |
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KEEPING CURRENT--PROPERTY |
35-JUN Probate and Property 22 (May/June, 2021) |
COTENANTS: Creditor may reach insurance proceeds from property held in tenancy by the entirety. Terry and Cathy Phillips owned their marital residence as tenants by the entirety until 2010 when they retitled the property in the names of separate revocable trusts as tenants in common. Cathy's trust held a 99 percent undivided interest in the... |
2021 |
| Alex Ellefson |
LANDLORD BOUNTY HUNTERS: QUI TAM AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR HOUSING CODE ENFORCEMENT |
29 Journal of Law & Policy 460 (2021) |
Millions of American renters live in substandard housing. Conditions in these homes not only affect individual renters' quality of life, but in the aggregate create enormous burdens on public resources in the form of higher healthcare costs, demand for public benefits, and lower economic productivity. Furthermore, the legacy of racist housing... |
2021 |
| Daniel Finnegan |
LOOKING FOR A SILVER LINING: HOW THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC FORCES NEW YORK TO RECKON WITH ITS AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS |
15 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law 467 (Spring, 2021) |
Since the Great Depression, the United States government has failed to find an adequate remedy to a nationwide housing shortage amongst low- and moderate-income individuals and families. The COVID-19 public health crisis has exacerbated this ongoing, nation-wide housing crisis, and has highlighted the racial inequities present in our housing... |
2021 |
| Rebecca Ringler |
MAKING A HOUSE A HOME: CHALLENGING DISCRIMINATORY UTILITY POLICIES UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
12 George Washington Journal of Energy & Environmental Law 113 (Summer, 2021) |
This Note explores the connection between access to utility services and housing, and how the Fair Housing Act can be used to challenge discriminatory utility policies. Specifically, it concludes that because regulation of utility providers varies so much between the states, federal oversight is needed to ensure that consumers are protected from... |
2021 |
| Michelle D. Layser , Edward W. De Barbieri , Andrew J. Greenlee , Tracy A. Kaye , Blaine G. Saito |
MITIGATING HOUSING INSTABILITY DURING A PANDEMIC |
99 Oregon Law Review 445 (2021) |
Introduction. 447 I. Housing Instability During a Pandemic. 451 A. Predicting the Impact of COVID-19 on Housing Instability. 451 B. Policy Response to Housing Instability Varies by Perceived Harm. 455 C. Housing Instability as a Public Health Risk During COVID-19. 457 II. Learning from History: Policy Failures and the Great Recession. 461 A.... |
2021 |
| Cameron Roeback |
NO LOVE LEASED: DETERMINING A LANDLORD'S LIABILITY FOR TENANT-ON-TENANT HARASSMENT UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
82 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 945 (Summer, 2021) |
I oughta kill you, you f g n , Raymond Endres shouted at his new apartment neighbor, Donahue Francis. Francis could hardly escape the abuse; it followed him through his apartment complex, sometimes to his very door. The Suffolk County Police Hate Crimes Unit investigated the matter and informed the apartment owner, Kings Park Manor Inc. (KPM).... |
2021 |
| Nina A. Kohn |
NURSING HOMES, COVID-19, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF REGULATORY FAILURE |
110 Georgetown Law Journal Online 1 (Spring, 2021) |
This essay explores the COVID-19 crisis in America's nursing homes and its lessons for the future of long-term care. It challenges narratives portraying nursing homes as the unfortunate victims of COVID-19 by showing how the crisis is the foreseeable result of regulatory gaps and failures that have long enabled nursing homes to engage in systemic... |
2021 |
| H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr. |
OF PROTEST AND PROPERTY: AN ESSAY IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR |
116 Northwestern University Law Review Online 23 (May 13, 2021) |
Abstract--In March 2020, Louisville police officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor in her apartment while executing a no-knock warrant. There was great outrage over the killing of the innocent woman, and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron led an investigation of the officer-involved shooting. Activists protested in Louisville after Taylor's... |
2021 |
| Tracy A. Kaye |
OGDEN COMMONS CASE STUDY: A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT AND OPPORTUNITY ZONE TAX INCENTIVE PROGRAMS |
48 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1067 (October, 2021) |
Introduction. 1068 I. The Ogden Commons Project. 1072 A. North Lawndale Neighborhood, Chicago. 1072 B. OZ Census Tract 8433. 1075 II. Financing of the Ogden Commons Project. 1080 A. Qualified Opportunity Funds. 1080 B. Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. 1084 III. Comparison of the LIHTC Program with the Opportunity Zone Tax Incentive. 1090 A.... |
2021 |
| Jamie H. Wood |
OPPORTUNITY GAP: A SURVEY OF STATE SOURCE-OF-INCOME PROTECTION LAWS AND HOW THEY ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES FACING THE FEDERAL HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM |
55 University of Richmond Law Review 691 (Winter, 2021) |
In 1968, the United States Congress enacted the Fair Housing Act (FHA) with the stated purpose of prevent[ing] segregation and discrimination in housing, including in the sale or rental of housing .. The FHA prohibits landlords from refusing to rent to members of certain protected classes, including race, color, national origin, sex, religion,... |
2021 |
| Marika Dias |
PARADOX AND POSSIBILITY: MOVEMENT LAWYERING DURING THE COVID-19 HOUSING CRISIS |
24 CUNY Law Review 173 (Summer, 2021) |
Introduction. 173 I. The Housing Movement Rising. 177 II. Really? You Want to Evict People During a Pandemic? Keeping the Eviction Mills Closed. 182 III. Cancel Rent--A Time for Bold Demands. 191 IV. Not One Cent on the Rent: A Mass Rent Strike. 200 V. Closing out--Building our power to Fight and Win. 207 |
2021 |
| Mary Crossley |
PRISONS, NURSING HOMES, AND MEDICAID: A COVID-19 CASE STUDY IN HEALTH INJUSTICE |
30 Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences 101 (Summer, 2021) |
As the coronavirus closed down the United States economy in March 2020, it did not take long for predictions to emerge claiming that COVID-19 would disproportionately affect Black communities. Only weeks into the shutdown, Dr. Uché Blackstock, a health equity expert, began sounding the alarm, stating in an interview [w]hen it hits the fan, we're... |
2021 |
| Molly Rockett |
PRIVATE PROPERTY MANAGERS, UNCHECKED: THE FAILURES OF FEDERAL COMPLIANCE OVERSIGHT IN PROJECT-BASED SECTION 8 HOUSING |
134 Harvard Law Review Forum 286 (March 20, 2021) |
Federally subsidized housing should be the foundation upon which much of our social safety net is built. It is supposed to be a core component of our public response to the intertwined crises of poverty and homelessness, funded by taxpayer dollars and executed by our public servants in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as well... |
2021 |
| Xuan-Thao Nguyen |
PROMOTING CORPORATE IRRESPONSIBILITY? DELAWARE AS THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HOLDING STATE |
46 Journal of Corporation Law 717 (Spring, 2021) |
I. Introduction. 718 II. Catching Delaware's Attention: The Rise of Intellectual Property Corporate Assets. 722 A. Patent and Copyright Assets in the 1980s. 722 B. The Rise in Consumption and Trademarks as Corporate Assets. 729 III. Legislation to Lure Intellectual Property Assets to Be Held in Delaware. 733 A. The Tax Avoidance Scheme of 1984. 733... |
2021 |
| Michael C. Pollack , Lior Jacob Strahilevitz |
PROPERTY LAW FOR THE AGES |
63 William and Mary Law Review 561 (November, 2021) |
Within the next forty years, the number of Americans over age sixty-five is projected to nearly double. This seismic demographic shift will necessitate a reckoning in several areas of law and policy, but property law is especially unprepared. Built primarily for young and middle-aged white men, the common law of property has been critiqued for... |
2021 |
| Cameron M. Baskett , Christopher G. Bradley |
PROPERTY TAX PRIVATEERS |
41 Virginia Tax Review 89 (Fall, 2021) |
Many states permit local governments to sell third parties the right to collect overdue property taxes, together with interest and fees. We call these third-party investors property tax privateers, because they are empowered to pursue claims that are essentially the state's, in search of a sizable bounty. Privateers are often anonymous LLCs with... |
2021 |
| Andrew T. Hayashi , Richard M. Hynes |
PROTECTIONIST PROPERTY TAXES |
106 Iowa Law Review 1091 (March, 2021) |
ABSTRACT: National restrictions on trade and immigration are the most salient illustrations of the current protectionist moment, but cities have played their part too, taxing foreign investors in local real estate and imposing second or vacant home taxes that indirectly burden foreign investment. We call these taxes protectionist property taxes.... |
2021 |
| Eleanor Brown, June Carbone |
RACE, PROPERTY, AND CITIZENSHIP |
116 Northwestern University Law Review Online 120 (July 24, 2021) |
Abstract--The racial wealth gap is stunning. The net worth of an average White family is nearly ten times greater than that of an African-American family. A 2017 Prosperity Now report finds that for African-Americans, today's economy is an extractive one; if existing trends continue, the median African-American family will have a net worth of zero... |
2021 |
| John Bliss |
REBELLIOUS LAWYERS FOR FAIR HOUSING: THE LOST SCIENTIFIC MODEL OF THE EARLY NAACP |
2021 Wisconsin Law Review 1433 (2021) |
Historically rooted patterns of racial segregation in housing remain a significant contributor to racial inequities in health, intergenerational wealth, and life chances more generally. This Article uncovers a powerful but long-forgotten model for rebellious lawyers in the struggle for fair housing. I draw this model from archival research on the... |
2021 |
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REMARKS BY CHAIRMAN ROBERT C. "BOBBY" SCOTT (VA-03) |
39 Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality 5 (Winter, 2021) |
2020 Summit for Civil Rights | University of Minnesota Law School, Georgetown University Law Center Friday, July 31, 2020 | 10:10 AM CDT Thank you, Dean Treanor, for your very kind introduction. I want to thank the University of Minnesota Law School, Workers' Rights Institute, Building One America, NAACP, and all the organizations that helped... |
2021 |
| Michael P. Seng |
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: A MODEL FOR CONCILIATING FAIR HOUSING DISPUTES |
21 Journal of Law in Society 63 (Winter, 2021) |
Abstract. 63 Introduction. 64 I. The challenge posed by housing discrimination and the task of removing the effects of segregation. 66 II. The Fair Housing Act Has Broad Remedial Powers. 72 III. Conciliation as a preferred means of resolving fair housing disputes. 78 IV. Restorative justice as a means of conciliating disputes under the Fair Housing... |
2021 |
| Rigel C. Oliveri |
SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT AFTER BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY |
69 University of Kansas Law Review 409 (March, 2021) |
On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, ruling by a vote of 6-3 that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay, lesbian, and transgender employees from discrimination. The majority held that the statute's prohibition against discrimination in employment because of .... |
2021 |
| Christopher S. Elmendorf, Eric Biber, Paavo Monkkonen, Moira O'Neill |
STATE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF LOCAL CONSTRAINTS ON HOUSING DEVELOPMENT: IMPROVING THE CALIFORNIA MODEL |
63 Arizona Law Review 609 (Fall, 2021) |
Starting in the 1970s, the West Coast states coalesced around roughly similar responses to the problem of excessive local restrictions on housing supply. Local governments were charged with making plans to accommodate projected population growth, subject to review and approval by a state agency. In California, a city's housing plan must also... |
2021 |
| Mitchell E. Feldman |
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING: RESTRICTIVE CHANGES TO FAIR HOUSING ACT DISPARATE IMPACT LIABILITY |
62 Boston College Law Review 1321 (April, 2021) |
Abstract: Disparate impact liability, a theory for pleading discrimination allegations, has been an important tool in the battle for housing equity. Disparate impact claims, however, have undergone drastic changes since their inception in 1971. Most recently, the Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a final rule amending the pleading... |
2021 |
| Larisa Antonisse |
STRENGTHENING THE RIGHT TO MEDICAID HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES IN THE POST-COVID ERA |
121 Columbia Law Review 1801 (October, 2021) |
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the severe public health danger that institutional and congregate care settings pose to people with disabilities, older adults, and the care professionals who work in those settings. While the populations residing in congregate care settings are naturally more susceptible to the virus, the COVID-19 crisis in... |
2021 |
| Florence Wagman Roisman |
STRUCTURAL RACISM IN HOUSING IN INDIANAPOLIS |
18 Indiana Health Law Review 355 (2021) |
[N]ow arise political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat .. We face an attack on our democracy and on truth. A raging virus, growing inequity, the sting of systemic racism, a climate in crisis. Structural racism is a newly popular term but a long-standing problem. It has been defined as the... |
2021 |
| A. Mechele Dickerson |
SYSTEMIC RACISM AND HOUSING |
70 Emory Law Journal 1535 (2021) |
After the Great Depression and World War II, political leaders in this country enacted laws and adopted policies that made it easy for families to buy homes and increase their household wealth. This housing relief was limited to whites, though. Blacks and Latinos have always struggled to buy homes or even find safe and affordable rental housing.... |
2021 |
| Mekonnen Firew Ayano |
TENANTS WITHOUT RIGHTS: SITUATING THE EXPERIENCES OF NEW IMMIGRANTS IN THE U.S. LOW-INCOME HOUSING MARKET |
28 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 159 (Winter, 2021) |
Immigrants who recently arrived in the United States generally are not able to exclusively possess rental properties in the formal market because they lack a steady source of income and credit history. Instead, they rent shared bedrooms, basements, attics, garages, and illegally converted units that violate housing codes and regulations. Their... |
2021 |
| Hayley Hahn |
TERMITES IN THE MASTER'S HOUSE: ABORTION RAP AND FLORYNCE KENNEDY'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO RACIAL AND GENDER JUSTICE |
107 Virginia Law Review Online 48 (January, 2021) |
[N]ever . take any shit from anyone. This attitude guided radical Black feminist Florynce Flo Kennedy's life and advocacy. Contemporaries recognized Kennedy as an outspoken activist for the rights of African Americans, women, sex workers, and members of the LGBT community. In this way, Kennedy united social movements with divergent agendas.... |
2021 |
| Ana Santos Rutschman |
THE COVID-19 VACCINE RACE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COLLABORATION(S), NATIONALISM AND MISINFORMATION |
64 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 167 (2021) |
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a national and global vaccine race. This Article examines the race with respect to contemporary frameworks for biopharmaceutical research and development. Specifically, this Article focuses on the effect of patents, pre-production agreements, public-private partnerships, and vaccine misinformation. This Article... |
2021 |
| Katherine Drabiak |
THE INTERSECTION OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND LEGAL AUTHORITY: COVID-19 STAY AT HOME ORDERS |
18 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 1 (Spring, 2021) |
Federal and state government have the power and duty to protect the public from communicable disease. In the U.S., federal and state responses to the global pandemic of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 relied heavily on quarantine-like actions designed to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2. This article summarizes initial epidemiological data on SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19,... |
2021 |
| Roger Merino |
THE LAND OF NATIONS: INDIGENOUS STRUGGLES FOR PROPERTY AND TERRITORY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW |
115 AJIL Unbound 129 (2021) |
Key studies have highlighted how Western law was central to the civilizing mission of colonialism, legitimizing conquest while presenting itself as a colonizer's gift for overcoming barbarism. But law was not just an imposition to dispossess resources and accumulate labor; it was also transformed by the contestations of First Nations and the new... |
2021 |
| Sam F. Halabi |
THE LEGAL STRUCTURE OF COVID-19 NURSING HOME DEATHS |
11 Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy 569 (April, 2021) |
Although now a priority group for emergency use authorized COVID-19 vaccines, nursing home residents in the U.S. have borne by far the greatest burden of illness and death from the pandemic. Nearly 200,000 nursing home residents have died over the course of the pandemic, approximately forty percent of all U.S. deaths attributable to the virus. It... |
2021 |
| Lahny Silva |
THE TRAP CHRONICLES, VOL. 1: HOW U.S. HOUSING POLICY IMPAIRS CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM |
80 Maryland Law Review 565 (2021) |
I. The Frame. 570 II. The War. 572 A. Criminal Policy. 573 1. Legislation. 573 1.1. The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. 574 1.2. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. 576 1.3. The Omnibus Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. 577 2. Repercussions. 580 B. Housing Policy. 587 1. Legislation. 587... |
2021 |
| Leah Powers |
THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT: HUD'S RECENT CHANGES TO THE DISPARATE IMPACT STANDARD |
74 SMU Law Review Forum 29 (February, 2021) |
In 2013, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published its Disparate Impact Final Rule in which it sought to formalize its longstanding interpretation of disparate impact liability under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by setting forth a three-part burden-shifting framework. HUD subsequently revisited its disparate impact standard... |
2021 |
| Ashley M. Gindle |
THE WORKPLACE POSTER: A SIMPLE MODEL FOR INFORMING RESIDENTIAL TENANTS OF THEIR RIGHTS AND IMPROVING ACCESS TO ADEQUATE HOUSING |
30 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 305 (2021) |
For at least the last decade, millions of U.S. renters have lacked access to adequate housing due to poor housing affordability, high eviction rates, and substandard physical housing conditions. However, U.S. tenants possess legal rights that can directly improve the conditions precluding renters' access to adequate housing. When asserted, tenant... |
2021 |
| Michelle Y. Ewert |
THEIR HOME IS NOT THEIR CASTLE: SUBSIDIZED HOUSING'S INTRUSION INTO FAMILY PRIVACY AND DECISIONAL AUTONOMY |
99 North Carolina Law Review 869 (May, 2021) |
The anti-Black racism that has permeated public benefits programs and federal housing policy for over a century persists in subsidized rental housing. Public housing authorities (PHAs) impede the ability of tenants--who are disproportionately Black women--to change household composition as their family situations change. PHAs routinely take... |
2021 |
| Olatunde C.A. Johnson |
TOWARDS A LAW OF INCLUSIVE PLANNING: A RESPONSE TO "FAIR HOUSING FOR A NON-SEXIST CITY" |
134 Harvard Law Review Forum 312 (April, 2021) |
Noah Kazis's important article, Fair Housing for a Non-sexist City, shows how law shapes the contours of neighborhoods and embeds forms of inequality, and how fair housing law can provide a remedy. Kazis surfaces two dimensions of housing that generate inequality and that are sometimes invisible. Kazis highlights the role of planning and design... |
2021 |
| Lori Bable |
TRIBALLY DEFINED CITIZENSHIP CRITERIA: COUNTERING WHITENESS AS PROPERTY INTERPRETATIONS OF "INDIAN" FOR RESTORING INHERENT SOVEREIGNTY |
18 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 29 (Winter, 2021) |
Abstract: This article implements the framework of whiteness of property to articulate the ways in which holdings of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) have limited Tribal Nations' sovereignty because of the illegibility and correlative dispossession of inherent sovereignty itself. This article also highlights how these past SCOTUS... |
2021 |
| Kamaile A.N. Turc̆an |
U.S. PROPERTY LAW: A REVISED VIEW |
45 William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 319 (Winter, 2021) |
The individual's sole dominion over a parcel of land--to the exclusion of others in the community or the public at large--is a myth, despite the prevalence of this view in conventional U.S. property law. In practice, the rights and obligations in any one parcel of land is a mixture of individual, community, and public interests coexisting in that... |
2021 |
| Adam Cohen, Dan Goodman, Ben Meyer, Krystle Okafor, Mark Phillip, Bobby Pidgeon, Kyle Slominkski, Moriah Wilkins |
UNDER ONE ROOF: BUILDING AN ABOLITIONIST APPROACH TO HOUSING JUSTICE |
30 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 121 (2021) |
This essay is based on the premise that, despite recent nationwide protests for racial justice and enhanced attention to the long-standing discrimination in housing finance, policymaking, and planning, housing policy in the United States nevertheless remains technocratic and incrementalist. In response, the authors invite policymakers to look to... |
2021 |
| Courtney Veneri |
WELCOME HOME? AN ANALYSIS OF FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAMS AND THEIR EFFICACY IN REDUCING HOMELESSNESS AMONG DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS |
14 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Summer, 2021) |
Housing is arguably the biggest barrier facing survivors of domestic violence who leave their abuser. Many survivors remain in situations highly dangerous to their life and health because they do not have any options for stability if they leave. Although there are federal housing programs that survivors are often eligible for, these programs have... |
2021 |
| Eleanor Marie Lawrence Brown |
WHY BLACK HOMEOWNERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE CARIBBEAN AMERICAN THAN AFRICAN AMERICAN IN NEW YORK: A THEORY OF HOW EARLY WEST INDIAN MIGRANTS BROKE RACIAL CARTELS IN HOUSING |
61 American Journal of Legal History 3 (March, 2021) |
Why are the Black brownstone owners and landlords in Harlem and Brooklyn disproportionately West Indian? For students of housing discrimination, Black West Indian Americans have long presented a quandary. West Indian Americans generally own and rent higher quality housing than African Americans. These advantages began long ago. For example, when... |
2021 |
| Callen Lowell |
WORKING 9 TO NON-STOP: THE FAIR HOUSING ACT'S SEXUAL HARASSMENT PROTECTIONS FOR DOMESTIC, AGRICULTURAL, AND OTHER LIVE-IN WORKERS |
40 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 453 (Summer, 2021) |
Live-in workers, for whom their bosses are typically also their landlords, are often trapped in sexually harassing situations that feel as though they have no practical or legal redress, especially when the worker's harasser can both fire and evict them in one fell swoop. This Note explores the novel possibility of using fair housing law, including... |
2021 |