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Addressing Mental Disability Head On: The Challenges Of Reasonable Accommodation Requests For Virginia Housing Providers, Haley Fortner
Addressing Mental Disability Head On: The Challenges Of Reasonable Accommodation Requests For Virginia Housing Providers, Haley Fortner
Washington and Lee Law Review Online
A person’s home should be a sanctuary of safety, security, and comfortability away from the demands of the outside world. Yet for many people living with mental illness, a home can all too easily become a sort of temporary prison. Nowhere is this more apparent than when a housing provider stands in the way of allowing someone with a mental disability the equal opportunity to use and enjoy their home. Fair housing law’s reasonable accommodation requirement works to ensure those living with mental illness receive the accommodations they need in order to live safely and comfortably in their own home. …
More Harm Than Good: How State-Sponsored Gentrification Is Driving The Affordable Housing Crisis, And A Call For Accountability And Source-Of-Income Protections, Tolly Maloney
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
The affordable housing crisis in the United States stands at the center of conversations surrounding economic, social, and political reform. The inability of millions of Americans to afford a safe place to live is the result of decades of legislation aimed at fiscally benefitting the individuals developing and managing properties labeled “affordable” as opposed to placing low-income Americans in suitable, long-term housing. This Note argues that state-sponsored gentrification, paired with ineffective housing assistance programs and discrimination, is driving the affordable housing crisis in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This Note studies several policy examples of state-sponsored gentrification in Northern Virginia, Richmond, …