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The Failed Federalism Of Affordable Housing: Why States Don't Use Housing Vouchers, Noah M. Kazis
The Failed Federalism Of Affordable Housing: Why States Don't Use Housing Vouchers, Noah M. Kazis
Michigan Law Review
This Article uncovers a critical disjuncture in our system of providing affordable rental housing. At the federal level, the oldest, fiercest debate in low-income housing policy is between project-based and tenant-based subsidies: should the government help build new affordable housing projects or help renters afford homes on the private market? But at the state and local levels, it is as if this debate never took place.
The federal government (following most experts) employs both strategies, embracing tenant-based assistance as more cost-effective and offering tenants greater choice and mobility. But this Article shows that state and local housing voucher programs are …
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, And Homelessness Post-Bostock, Alaina Richert
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, And Homelessness Post-Bostock, Alaina Richert
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is a critical problem facing LGBTQ+ people in the United States. In addition, LGBTQ+ people, particularly transgender people, disproportionately suffer from homelessness and face discrimination by homeless shelters on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. This homelessness and discrimination both disproportionately affect transgender people of color. This Note makes two contributions that would enable courts to grant meaningful relief in these contexts. First, it argues that “sex” in the Fair Housing Act includes sexual orientation and gender identity after the holding in Bostock v. Clayton County. Second, …
Rent Strikes And Tenant Power: Supporting Rent Strikes In Residential Landlord-Tenant Law, Samantha Gowing
Rent Strikes And Tenant Power: Supporting Rent Strikes In Residential Landlord-Tenant Law, Samantha Gowing
Michigan Law Review
For more than a century, low-income tenants across cities in the United States have protested and organized together against unjust housing conditions. Yet landlords continue to evade accountability, leaving mold, pests, lead paint, unclean water, and innumerable other issues unaddressed. On top of habitability concerns, the past several decades of gentrification have displaced hundreds of thousands of Black and brown residents from their communities. To address these issues, legal reforms have focused on either housing-market regulation or individual rights devoid of effective enforcement mechanisms. These reforms fall short. Tenant power, not just tenant-focused housing reform, should be a concern of …