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Perspectives On Abandoned Houses In A Time Of Dystopia, Kermit J. Lind
Perspectives On Abandoned Houses In A Time Of Dystopia, Kermit J. Lind
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This article describes various perspectives on abandoned houses in urban neighborhoods and the reactions from those perspectives. It notes how conflicting reactions perpetuate the crisis of blight for individual residents and their communities. It argues that real solutions for management of abandonment must be based in local communities and tailored to local conditions. Priority must be placed on consistent maintenance in compliance with local housing and neighborhood health, safety and environmental codes. Housing preservation, rehabilitation, reutilization programs will not succeed without improved and sustained maintenance. Localities will need to take the lead in remodeling residential maintenance using new strategies, methods …
Responding To The Mortgage Crisis: Three Cleveland Examples, W. Dennis Keating, Kermit J. Lind
Responding To The Mortgage Crisis: Three Cleveland Examples, W. Dennis Keating, Kermit J. Lind
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Just as SVD [Slavic Village Development] fought back against predatory lending, mortgage fraud, and speculator flipping, the City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County also sought to prevent these practices and stem the rising tide of foreclosures. This included legislation, litigation, and homeowner counseling. This article will focus on three examples of the response to the mortgage crisis in Cleveland: the Cleveland Housing Court, the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation (land bank), and community development corporations (CDCs) and local intermediaries (namely, the Cleveland Housing Network (CHN) and Neighborhood Progress, Inc. (NPI)). Each of these entities has developed initiatives aimed at the …
Essay: Current And Future Challenges To Local Government Posed By The Housing And Credit Crisis,, Alan Weinstein
Essay: Current And Future Challenges To Local Government Posed By The Housing And Credit Crisis,, Alan Weinstein
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The ongoing problems in the housing and credit markets, caused by a toxic combination of wholesale deregulation of financial markets by the federal government and imprudent lending and investment practices by financial institutions, pose significant challenges to local and state government officials. Some of these challenges are obvious. How will cities cope with an unprecedented number of foreclosures at the same time that state and local tax revenues are decreasing? When will access to credit ease in a municipal bond market that has constricted as a result of both general credit concerns and questions about the companies insuring those bonds? …
The Subprime Mortgage Crisis And Local Government: Immediate And Future Challenges, Alan C. Weinstein
The Subprime Mortgage Crisis And Local Government: Immediate And Future Challenges, Alan C. Weinstein
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
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Book Review, W Dennis Keating
Book Review, W Dennis Keating
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Reviewing L. Vale, Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods, Harvard University Press (2002)
The Dilemma Of Old, Urban Neighborhoods, W Dennis Keating
The Dilemma Of Old, Urban Neighborhoods, W Dennis Keating
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In his recounting of the suburban migration from America's cities, journalist and broadcaster Ray Suarez laments the loss of the "old neighborhood". He extols its virtues while explaining its decline. Suarez's nostalgic examples recall the virtues of the extended family kinship, neighborliness, and other features of the "urban village." These are often associated with those urban neighborhoods populated by recent immigratns. These urban villages were thought to have peaked in the decades between the American Civil War and the onset of the First World War, when many U.S. cities industrialized and grew very rapidly. However, a continuing movement of migrants …
The Parma Housing Racial Discrimination Remedy Revisited, W Dennis Keating
The Parma Housing Racial Discrimination Remedy Revisited, W Dennis Keating
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In 1980, the city of Parma, Ohio, Cleveland's largest suburban city was found guilty of violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal District Court Judge Frank Battisti imposed an extensive remedy upon Parma. Upon approval by the Sixth Circuit of the imposed remedy, its implementation began in 1982. Controversy surrounded much of the remedy, and fourteen years later following Battisti's death, Federal District Court judge Kathleen O'Malley approved a new settlment aimed at ending the court's supervision of the modified remedy after another two years. Along with the Gautreaux, Mt. Laurel, and Yonkers cases, the Parma case represents a longstanding remedy …
The Challenge Of Providing Adequate Housing For The Elderly . . . Along With Everyone, Alan C. Weinstein
The Challenge Of Providing Adequate Housing For The Elderly . . . Along With Everyone, Alan C. Weinstein
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Our patterns of land use and development have failed to accommodate the changed housing needs of an aging population. Primary among these needs is the desire of the elderly to be able to "age in place." To meet this need, America's suburban communities in particular will need to re-think their reliance on exclusive single-family zoning and begin planning and zoning for an increasingly large number of the elderly. Despite understandable concerns about maintaining housing values, this may well prove to be politically achievable simply because the very demographic changes that create the need will create a growing constituency in favor …
Emergence Of Community Development Corporations: Their Impact On Housing And Neighborhoods, W Dennis Keating
Emergence Of Community Development Corporations: Their Impact On Housing And Neighborhoods, W Dennis Keating
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
CDCs, both locally and nationally, are seeking broader support from government, corporations and foundations. Without increased sustained support, it is not clear that CDCs can really provide the housing, employment, and services necessary for the revitalization of urban neighborhoods that are truly integrated by income, race and ethnicity. However, given the failure of the private market to provide below market housing, and the inability of most large public housing authorities to expand the supply of public housing, CDCs are the best and often the only hope for affordable housing in these neighborhoods.
Symposium On Rent Control, W Dennis Keating
Symposium On Rent Control, W Dennis Keating
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Review of Richard Epstein's "Commentary on Rent Control and the Theory of Efficient Regulation," 53 Brooklyn Law Review 741, 742 (1988).
Book Review, The Failure Of The Private Housing Market, W Dennis Keating
Book Review, The Failure Of The Private Housing Market, W Dennis Keating
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Reviewing Rethinking Rental Housing, John Gilderboom and Richard Appelbaum, Temple University Press, 1988.
Suburban Cleveland's 20-Year Integration Struggle, W Dennis Keating
Suburban Cleveland's 20-Year Integration Struggle, W Dennis Keating
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
A retrospective look at open housing efforts in one of the nation's most segregated regions.
Book Review, Progressive Cities And The Tenants Movement, W Dennis Keating
Book Review, Progressive Cities And The Tenants Movement, W Dennis Keating
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Reviewing The Progressive City, Pierre Clavel, Planning and Participation, 1969-1984, Rutgers University Press, 1986.
Landlord Self-Regulation: New York City's Rent Stabilization System, 1969-1985, W Dennis Keating
Landlord Self-Regulation: New York City's Rent Stabilization System, 1969-1985, W Dennis Keating
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This article argues that New York City's self-regulation system failed. Its ultimate demise is attributable to several factors: the attempted insulation of decision making from public influence; the attempted exclusion of tenants from the decision-making structure; landlord domination of regulatory bodies and policies; widespread patterns of landlord violations of the rent destabilization code; the failure of regulatory bodies to adequately enforce available sanctions for code violations; and the emergence of countervailing tenant opposition, the subsequent politicization of critical issues and decisions and the eventual deligitimation of the system's structure.