| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Cori Harvey |
"WE BUY HOUSES": MARKET HEROES OR CRIMINALS? |
79 Missouri Law Review 649 (Summer, 2014) |
The residential sale/leaseback/buyback (RSLB) transaction is a socially beneficial foreclosure rescue transaction that is being regulated increasingly by the criminal courts to the detriment of the homeowners, investors, and society at large. Because the transaction is being regulated more aggressively with the criminal law, peculiar outcomes... |
2014 |
| Margaret E. Johnson |
A HOME WITH DIGNITY: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND PROPERTY RIGHTS |
2014 Brigham Young University Law Review 1 (2014) |
This Article argues that the legal system should do more to address intimate partner violence and each party's need for a home for several reasons. First, domestic violence is a leading cause of individual and family homelessness. Second, the struggle over rights to a shared home can increase the violence to which the woman is subjected. And third,... |
2014 |
| Caitlin Cocilova |
A TIME FOR CHANGE? THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF THE D.C. FEDERAL CITY SHELTER |
22 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 99 (Fall, 2014) |
On January 29, 2014, the annual Point-in-Time (PIT) survey for unsheltered persons counted 7748 individuals who were literally homeless in the District of Columbia. According to the survey, D.C. has endured an eighteen percent increase in literal homelessness since 2010, due in part to the high cost of living and reduced availability of affordable... |
2014 |
| Andrea J. Boyack |
AMERICAN DREAM IN FLUX: THE ENDANGERED RIGHT TO LEASE A HOME |
49 Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal 203 (Fall, 2014) |
Author's Synopsis: Homeownership in the US is on the decline and the percentage of the population that rents their residence is growing. Renters present a distinct demographic compared to owners, and most of the more vulnerable segments of society rent their homes. But the law prohibits renting a home in some neighborhoods. Occasionally, zoning... |
2014 |
| Jonathan J. Sheffield |
AT FORTY-FIVE YEARS OLD THE OBLIGATION TO AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHER FAIR HOUSING GETS A FACE-LIFT, BUT WILL IT INTEGRATE AMERICA'S CITIES? |
25 University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy 51 (April, 2014) |
Congress adopted the Fair Housing Act (FHA) in order to broadly remedy the effect of residential racial segregation in all parts of cities throughout the United States, not merely to end discreet discriminatory acts. On July 19, 2013 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a Proposed Rule aimed at improving HUD's... |
2014 |
| Caroline Dostal , Anke Strauss , Leopold von Carlowitz |
BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL JUSTICE AND MASS CLAIMS PROCEEDINGS: PROPERTY RESTITUTION FOR VICTIMS OF NAZI PERSECUTION IN POST-REUNIFICATION GERMANY |
15 German Law Journal 1035 (October 1, 2014) |
German history of the twentieth century offers a rich resource of precedent for property restitution and compensation programs. The Federal Republic of Germany instituted different mass claims proceedings shaped to reverse or mitigate violations of property rights that took place as part of (a) the persecutions by the Nazi regime from 1933 to... |
2014 |
| Kit Johnson |
BUYING THE AMERICAN DREAM: USING IMMIGRATION LAW TO BOLSTER THE HOUSING MARKET |
81 Tennessee Law Review 829 (Summer, 2014) |
Escaping notice in debate about immigration reform is a proposal that would give residency visas to foreign nationals on the condition that they buy an expensive home. Proponents see visas as a simple way to shore up the U.S. housing market. Yet complications abound. This Article scrutinizes the history, logic, economics, and morals of the proposed... |
2014 |
| Stephen M. Dane, Tara K. Ramchandani, Anne P. Bellows |
DISCRIMINATORY MAINTENANCE OF REO PROPERTIES AS A VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL FAIR HOUSING ACT |
17 CUNY Law Review 383 (Summer, 2014) |
I. Introduction. 383 II. Application of the Fair Housing Act to Discriminatory Maintenance of REO Properties. 387 A. The Fair Housing Act's Application to Neighborhood-Based Discrimination Is Well Established. 387 B. Discriminatory REO Maintenance Impedes Availability, Constitutes Discrimination in the Provision of Services, and Perpetuates... |
2014 |
| Tim Iglesias |
DOES FAIR HOUSING LAW APPLY TO "SHARED LIVING SITUATIONS"? OR THE TROUBLE WITH ROOMMATES |
22 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 111 (2014) |
In its 2012 opinion in Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roommate.com, LLC, the Ninth Circuit held that neither the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) nor California's equivalent (Fair Employment and Housing Act, or FEHA) applies to shared living situations because of a conflict with the constitutional right to free association. The case... |
2014 |
| Katherine R. Powers |
DOGS IN DORMS: HOW THE UNITED STATES V. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY ILLUSTRATES A COVERAGE GAP CREATED BY THE INTERSECTION OF FAIR HOUSING AND DISABILITY LAW |
47 Creighton Law Review 363 (April, 2014) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 363 II. BACKGROUND. 367 A. A Brief History of the Fair Housing Act. 367 B. Developing Where Fair Housing Laws Apply: The Early Judicial Interpretation of Residence. 367 C. Expanding the Definition of Dwelling to Non-Traditional Housing. 369 D. Applying the Dwelling Test to Educational Housing. 372 E. Distinguishing Disability Under... |
2014 |
| Ari B. Solotoff |
DUSSAULT V. RRE COACH LANTERN HOLDINGS, LLC: DOES THE MAINE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT RECOGNIZE DISPARATE IMPACT LIABILITY FOR CLAIMS OF HOUSING DISCRIMINATION BROUGHT BY SECTION 8 RECIPIENTS UNDER MAINE LAW? |
67 Maine Law Review 183 (2014) |
I. Introduction II. Legal Background A. Federal Fair Housing Laws & Public Assistance Housing Discrimination 1. The Federal Fair Housing Act 2. The Section 8 Housing Program 3. Federal and State Law Protections for Section 8 Recipients B. The MHRA and Maine's Fair Housing Protections for Recipients of Public Assistance 1. Unlawful Housing... |
2014 |
| Wendy Olson |
ENFORCEMENT OF THE CRIMINAL COMPONENT OF THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
57-APR Advocate 26 (March/April, 2014) |
Over nearly an eight-month period ending in the summer of 1997, six young white men, three of them not yet 18, intimidated and assaulted Hispanic residents of Nampa, Idaho, along with white residents who associated with Hispanics in Nampa. From cars, they chased teen-age Hispanic residents through the Nampa neighborhood where the teens lived --... |
2014 |
| Sean Milford |
FIGHTING HIDDEN DISCRIMINATION: DISPARATE IMPACT CLAIMS UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
79 Missouri Law Review 807 (Summer, 2014) |
Discriminatory practices in housing are a serious issue facing minority groups around the nation. The Fair Housing Act (FHA) makes discrimination on the basis of race unlawful, and violations of the FHA can be established by showing either intentional discrimination or that a policy has a disparate impact on a minority group. In Mt. Holly Gardens... |
2014 |
| Professor Katharine Tinto , Kathryn O. Greenberg, Immigration Justice Clinic, Benjamin N. Cardozo, School of Law, 55 Fifth Avenue, Room 1108, New York, NY 10003, 212-790-0433, E-mail tinto@yu.edu |
FIGHTING THE STASH HOUSE STING |
38-OCT Champion 16 (October, 2014) |
The stash house sting is an increasingly common and increasingly troubling--undercover policing tactic. Used by both federal and state law enforcement, as of today, over 1,000 individuals have been prosecuted as a result of this type of sting. Stash house stings have taken place in a diverse range of locations, ranging from Chicago, Los Angeles,... |
2014 |
| Kamille Wolff Dean |
FORECLOSURES AND FINANCIAL AID: MIND OVER MORTGAGES IN CLOSING THE PLUS LOAN GAP |
4 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 129 (2014) |
Renewed discussion has recently emerged to help strengthen the middle class by increasing access to college. President Barack Obama is at the forefront of the discussion to make college more affordable by prompting universities to become more efficient. Using education as a gateway to success, the Obama Administration proposed a number of... |
2014 |
| Lauren Wigginton |
HETERONORMATIVE IDENTITIES AS PROPERTY: ADVERSELY POSSESSING MALENESS AND FEMALENESS |
23 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 139 (2014) |
I. Introduction. 140 II. The Development of Maleness and Femaleness as Property Interests. 142 III. The Scope of Maleness and Femaleness. 143 IV. Maleness and Femaleness's Retention of the Characteristics of Property. 144 A. Maleness and Femaleness Can Be Possessed. 145 B. Maleness and Femaleness Can Be Used. 146 C. Maleness and Femaleness Can Be... |
2014 |
| Anders Walker |
HOUSE TO HOUSE: MERGERS, ANNEXATIONS & THE RACIAL IMPLICATIONS OF CITY-COUNTY POLITICS IN ST. LOUIS |
34 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 127 (2014) |
For three weeks in August 2014, the unremarkable hamlet of Ferguson, Missouri exploded. Sparks flew first on August 9, when a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager in broad daylight, prompting a coterie of witnesses to provide a kaleidoscopic portrait of what appeared to be a struggle, an attempted escape, a possible surrender, and a... |
2014 |
| Valerie Schneider |
IN DEFENSE OF DISPARATE IMPACT: URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AND THE SUPREME COURT'S RECENT INTEREST IN THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
79 Missouri Law Review 539 (Summer, 2014) |
Twice in the past three years, the Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Fair Housing cases, and, each time, under pressure from civil rights leaders who feared that the Supreme Court might narrow current Fair Housing Act jurisprudence, the cases settled just weeks before oral argument. Settlements after the Supreme Court grants certiorari are... |
2014 |
| Geoffrey Leonard |
IN OUR BACK YARDS: DISMANTLING SEGREGATION BY INCENTIVIZING REGIONAL COLLABORATION UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT'S AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING FAIR HOUSING PROVISION |
22 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 165 (Fall, 2014) |
America in the twenty-first century has become increasingly geographically mobile and ethnically diverse. Yet, paradoxically, black ghettos--spatially isolated high-poverty neighborhoods that are predominantly black--remain central features of the American metropolitan landscape. The results of the 2010 census indicate that, while diversity has... |
2014 |
| Alexander B. Lutzky |
IN PURSUIT OF JUST COMPENSATION IN TEXAS: ASSESSING DAMAGES IN TAKINGS CASES USING THE PROPERTY'S TAX-APPRAISED VALUE |
46 Saint Mary's Law Journal 105 (2014) |
I. Introduction. 106 II. Eminent Domain Law and Texas. 107 A. Highest and Best Use Doctrine. 109 B. Property Tax Valuation in Texas in Brief. 111 III. Analysis. 114 A. The Current Trend: Curtail Use of Eminent Domain and Protect Landowners. 114 B. The Identical Aims of the Condemnation and Property Tax Valuation Process. 116 C. Benefiting from... |
2014 |
| Shelly Kreiczer-Levy |
INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE FAMILY HOME |
8 Law & Ethics of Human Rights 131 (May, 2014) |
Abstract: This article examines the issue of intergenerational cohabitation in the family home. Its primary purpose is to demonstrate that current analysis of internal conflicts in the home is lacking, both in terms of identifying the parties' interests and characterizing the tensions involved. It focuses on a specific three-way conflict between... |
2014 |
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KEEPING CURRENT--PROPERTY |
28-JUN Probate and Property 17 (May/June, 2014) |
Keeping Current--Property offers a look at selected recent cases, literature, and legislation. The editors of Probate & Property welcome suggestions and contributions from readers. EMINENT DOMAIN: Lender is entitled to condemnation proceeds for damages to residue, but only up to amount of indebtedness. EMI owned a 12-acre parcel that was covered by... |
2014 |
| Zoe Ann Olson |
KNOWING FAIR HOUSING LAWS PROMOTES INCLUSIVENESS |
57-APR Advocate 22 (March/April, 2014) |
Fair housing is best described as building a community in which all persons have access to a healthy environment they can enjoy. The Intermountain Fair Housing Council (IFHC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to ensure open and inclusive housing for all people throughout Idaho. As a community, we have the power to bring attention to... |
2014 |
| Dina Kopansky |
LOCKED OUT: HOW THE DISPROPORTIONATE CRIMINALIZATION OF TRANS PEOPLE THWARTS EQUAL ACCESS TO FEDERALLY SUBSIDIZED HOUSING |
87 Temple Law Review 125 (Fall, 2014) |
Low-income trans people living at intersections of marginalization face heightened surveillance, violence, policing, and resultant interactions with the criminal justice system as a daily reality. Often already balancing unemployment, long-term poverty, and homelessness, such disproportionate criminalization is one more barrier to survival for... |
2014 |
| Christopher J. Tyson |
MUNICIPAL IDENTITY AS PROPERTY |
118 Penn State Law Review 647 (Winter 2014) |
Detroit is bankrupt, and very little of the theorizing and editorializing about this watershed event has contemplated municipal boundary law as a contributing factor. To the extent that it has, the analysis fails to grasp how essential municipal boundaries are to the creation of economic and social value in the modern metropolis. It has been almost... |
2014 |
| Jorge L. Contreras |
NO MATTER HOW SMALL . PROPERTY, AUTONOMY, AND STATE IN HORTON HEARS A WHO! |
58 New York Law School Law Review 603 (2013/2014) |
Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who. has long been viewed as a parable of human equality and dignity. Published in 1954, the same year as the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark anti-discrimination decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Horton's famous refrain, A person's a person, no matter how small, elegantly reflects the egalitarian principles... |
2014 |
| Jean M. Zachariasiewicz |
NOT WORTH THE RISK: THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE REFUSAL TO INSURE PROPERTIES WITH SECTION 8 TENANTS |
33 No. 11 Banking & Financial Services Policy Report 19 (November, 2014) |
The willingness of insurance providers to issue policies to landlords who accept tenants using Section 8 vouchers is an issue at the intersection of fair housing and the insurance industry that is gaining prominence. Private investigation and action around this issue is taking place across the country, as evidenced by lawsuits in state and federal... |
2014 |
| Jess Kyle |
OF CONSTITUTIONS AND CULTURES: THE BRITISH RIGHT TO ROAM AND AMERICAN PROPERTY LAW |
44 Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis 10898 (October, 2014) |
Jess Kyle is a J.D. Candidate, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, 2015. This Article won Honorable Mention in the 2013-2014 Beveridge & Diamond Constitutional Environmental Law Writing Competition. In 2000, England enacted the Countryside and Rights of Way Act, which provides the public the right to roam on certain private... |
2014 |
| Imani Jackson |
ON V. STIVIANO, DONALD STERLING'S COMPANION: EXPLORING WHITENESS AS PROPERTY |
10 Florida A & M University Law Review 245 (Fall 2014) |
Introduction. 245 I. The Problem: White Male Institutions and Individuals Have Historically Established Black and Latina Women's Identity, Which Positions These Women at Risk of Physical and Reputational Harms. 251 II. Why the Master's Conduit Lacks Associative Freedom. 255 III. If Blackness is Property, then Black Men Own Larger Shares than Black... |
2014 |
| Desiree C. Hensley |
OUT IN THE COLD: THE FAILURE OF TENANT ENFORCEMENT OF THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT |
82 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1079 (Summer, 2014) |
I. Introduction. 1080 II. Where the Southern Crossed the Dog Sunflower County, Mississippi. 1082 III. Affordable Housing for the Poor Is an Ever-Expanding Need. 1083 IV. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit: America's Largest Corporate Tax Shelter Is Also America's Main Vehicle for Affordable Housing Production. 1086 V. Low-Income Housing Production,... |
2014 |
| Rashmi Dyal-Chand |
PRAGMATISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM: PROTECTING NON-OWNERS IN PROPERTY LAW |
63 American University Law Review 1683 (August, 2014) |
Property law has a particular problem with non-owners. Although property law clearly identifies the rights of property owners, the rights of non-owners are vague. This problem is significant because modern property law is often called upon to balance the rights and needs of owners and non-owners. Property law cannot adequately perform this... |
2014 |
| Seth Davis |
PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT AND THE LAW OF PROPERTY |
2014 Wisconsin Law Review 471 (2014) |
This Article introduces a phenomenon that has been overlooked in the literature on property lawmaking: presidential governance of property law. On the conventional account, contributing to the development of the property system is about the last thing we would expect to see presidents doing. Yet the president is uniquely situated to treat property... |
2014 |
| Anne Marie Smetak |
PRIVATE FUNDING, PUBLIC HOUSING: THE DEVIL IN THE DETAILS |
21 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 1 (Winter 2014) |
Public housing, an important component of the social safety net, has long been plagued by insufficient funding. A new federal program seeks to solve the funding challenges by opening public housing to private investment; quite literally, to mortgage public housing in order to save it. Coming, as it does, on the heels of a national foreclosure... |
2014 |
| John M. Lerner |
PRIVATE RIGHTS UNDER THE HOUSING ACT: PRESERVING RENTAL ASSISTANCE FOR SECTION 8 TENANTS |
34 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 41 (Winter, 2014) |
Abstract: The Housing Choice Voucher Program provides low-income families with federally funded rental assistance. In order to receive rental assistance, tenants and landlords must maintain units in compliance with the Housing Quality Standards promulgated by the United States Housing Act. A failure by either party to comply with the Housing... |
2014 |
| Timothy M. Mulvaney |
PROGRESSIVE PROPERTY MOVING FORWARD |
5 California Law Review Circuit 349 (September, 2014) |
Introduction. 349 I. Rosser on Progressive Property. 351 A. An Introduction to Progressive Property. 351 B. Rosser's Critique. 352 C. Rosser and Property's Potential. 355 II. Progressive Property Moving Forward. 358 A. Transparency. 358 B. Humility. 361 C. Identity. 366 D. Transparency, Humility, and Identity: A Brief Illustration. 369 |
2014 |
| Cornelius J. Murray IV |
PROMOTING "INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES": A MODIFIED APPROACH TO DISPARATE IMPACT UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
75 Louisiana Law Review 213 (Fall, 2014) |
Introduction. 214 I. Disparate Impact Theory: What it is and Where it Came From. 219 A. Disparate Treatment. 220 B. Disparate Impact. 221 C. The Origins of Disparate Impact in Employment Law. 222 1. Early Inklings of Disparate Impact. 222 2. Supreme Court Approval of Disparate Impact. 224 D. The Development of Disparate Impact in the Fair Housing... |
2014 |
| Anna Di Robilant |
PROPERTY AND DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATION: THE NUMERUS CLAUSUS PRINCIPLE AND DEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENTALISM IN PROPERTY LAW |
62 American Journal of Comparative Law 367 (Spring 2014) |
First-year law students soon become familiar with the numerus clausus principle in property law. The principle holds that there is a limited menu of available standard property forms (the estates, the different types of common or joint ownership, the different types of servitudes) and that new forms are hardly ever introduced. Over the last fifty... |
2014 |
| Joseph William Singer |
PROPERTY AS THE LAW OF DEMOCRACY |
63 Duke Law Journal 1287 (March, 2014) |
In both his article Property as the Law of Things and his prior work, Professor Henry Smith has revitalized property law theory by emphasizing the architectural role that property plays in private law and the ways in which modular property rights reduce information costs and promote both property use and transfer. I applaud Smith's insistence that... |
2014 |
| Brenna Bhandar |
PROPERTY, LAW, AND RACE: MODES OF ABSTRACTION |
4 UC Irvine Law Review 203 (March, 2014) |
I. Slavery, Whiteness, and Great Expectations. 206 II. Slavery, Property, and Fictitious Capital. 213 III. Conclusion: Capital, Race, and Property. 217 the some of negroes over board the rest in lives drowned exist did not in themselves preservation obliged frenzy thirst for forty others etc |
2014 |
| Gregory S. Alexander |
PROPERTY'S ENDS: THE PUBLICNESS OF PRIVATE LAW VALUES |
99 Iowa Law Review 1257 (March, 2014) |
ABSTRACT: Property theorists commonly suppose that property has as its ends certain private values, such as individual autonomy and personal security. This Essay contends that property's real end is human flourishing, that is, living a life that is as fulfilling as possible. Human flourishing, although property's ultimate end, is neither monistic... |
2014 |
| Florence Wagman Roisman |
PROTECTING HOMEOWNERS FROM NON-JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGES HELD BY FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC |
43 Real Estate Law Journal 125 (Fall, 2014) |
His experience . had disabused him of any hope that the government would intercede to prevent rich corporations from doing bad things to poor people. Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine at 155 (2010) (writing about Steve Eisman) Between 2008 and 2014, millions of homeowners in the United States lost their homes through... |
2014 |
| Amanda Tillotson |
RACE, RISK AND REAL ESTATE: THE FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION AND BLACK HOMEOWNERSHIP IN THE POST WORLD WAR II HOME OWNERSHIP STATE |
8 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 25 (Winter 2014) |
The existence of a property-owning majority in the United States was the result of federal institutional intervention in the period after World War II. This intervention both reduced the risks assumed by mortgage lenders and changed the terms on which mortgages were offered. By underwriting mortgages issued by lending institutions, the Federal... |
2014 |
| Dawn E. Jourdan, Anne L. Ray, Elizabeth A. Thompson, Kristen Dikeman |
RELOCATING FROM SUBSIDIZED HOUSING IN FLORIDA: ARE RESIDENTS MOVING TO OPPORTUNITY? |
22 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 155 (2014) |
Just as the HOPE VI program resulted in the loss of numerous public housing units, privately owned units of rental housing, subsidized as a part of HUD or USDA programs in the 1970s and 1980s, are now leaving the affordable housing inventory as a result of the expiration of the government subsidy. These units are being converted to market-rate... |
2014 |
| Caroline Joan S. Picart |
RETHINKING RESISTANCE: REFLECTIONS ON THE CULTURAL LIVES OF PROPERTY, COLLECTIVE IDENTITY, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY |
47 John Marshall Law Review 1349 (Summer, 2014) |
I. Prologue. 1349 II. Reflections on Intersectionalities: Strategies of Resistance in Relation to Narrative, Property, and Collective Identity. 1350 III. Strategies of Resistance in Relation to Copyright and Choreography in American Dance. 1358 IV. Conclusion. 1368 |
2014 |
| Michael F. Drywa, Jr. |
RHODE ISLAND'S HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS: HOW CAN THE NEW LAW PROVIDE SHELTER FROM EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION? |
19 Roger Williams University Law Review 716 (Summer 2014) |
On a single night in 2012 there were 633,782 homeless people in the United States, including 394,379 who were homeless as individuals and 239,403 people who were homeless in families. In Rhode Island, a single night count from December 12, 2012, revealed that there were 996 Rhode Islanders homeless on that day. On June 27, 2012, Rhode Island... |
2014 |
| Daniel Fitzpatrick, Susana Barnes |
RULES OF POSSESSION REVISITED: PROPERTY AND THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL ORDER |
39 Law and Social Inquiry 127 (Winter, 2014) |
This article explores two propositions in the literature on rules of possession. The first is that rules of first possession may form the basis for spontaneous order. The article argues that this Hayekian proposition must take into account the relationship between property and authority, including the potential for social disorder when... |
2014 |
| Melissa Rothstein, Megan K. Whyte de Vasquez |
TEETH IN THE TIGER: ORGANIZATIONAL STANDING AS A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF FAIR HOUSING ACT ENFORCEMENT |
7 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 179 (Spring 2014) |
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congress has recognized the need for strong laws that protect the right to equal treatment and access to goods and services and the pivotal role that private litigation plays in enforcing these rights. Congress emphasized the critical role of fair housing through the passage of Title VIII of the... |
2014 |
| John Baber |
THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER: THE ISSUE OF THE UNSUSTAINABILITY OF LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDITS AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS |
4 University of Baltimore Journal of Land and Development 39 (Fall, 2014) |
The Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is currently the nation's largest federal subsidy for the development and rehabilitation of affordable housing, having created or preserved over 2.5 million housing units and distributed over $7.5 billion in federal tax credits to developers of and investors in affordable housing from the... |
2014 |
| Priya S. Gupta |
THE AMERICAN DREAM, DEFERRED: CONTEXTUALIZING PROPERTY AFTER THE FORECLOSURE CRISIS |
73 Maryland Law Review 523 (2014) |
In a few short years, the American Dream has dried up like a raisin in the sun. Massive foreclosures of the mid-to-late 2000s have left the status of the American Dream of homeownership in serious question. In this paper, I argue that in order to formulate new federal housing and homeownership policy goals, the underlying vision of property rights... |
2014 |
| Amy L. Landers |
THE ANTI-ECONOMY OF FASHION; AN OPENWORK APPROACH TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION |
24 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal 427 (Winter, 2014) |
L1-2Introduction . L3429 I. A System of Openwork Protection. 431 A. An Overview. 431 B. Separating Expression from Function. 437 1. The Mass-Market. 439 2. The Avant Garde. 442 II. Creation of the Avant-Garde: Culturally Infused Design. 448 III. Cultural Modification Andthe Wearer. 453 A. Clothing as an Openwork. 453 B. How Openwork Design... |
2014 |