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Full-Text Articles in Housing Law
Re-Appraising The Appraisers: Expanding Liability To Buyers And Borrowers In The Story Of The 2008 Financing Industry Crisis, Shelby D. Green
Re-Appraising The Appraisers: Expanding Liability To Buyers And Borrowers In The Story Of The 2008 Financing Industry Crisis, Shelby D. Green
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
On the surface, suing in negligence seems the most promising avenue for recovery against appraisers, because liability depends on an examination of defendant's conduct alone and does not require an examination or defendant's mental state to show intent or agreement. But historically insuperable hurdles have operated to prevent recovery under this seemingly simple cause of action. One hurdle is lack of privity. The appraiser's legal relationship is with the hiring party--the lender--to assess the risks of the loan transaction and not with the purchaser, who may rely on the appraisal in making the decision to purchase. Because of the lack …
The People's Court, Kermit J. Lind
The People's Court, Kermit J. Lind
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The Cleveland Housing Court adjudicates only one house and one owner at a time, while the investors and speculators in blighted properties operate in secret at high volume from a distance. However, the court's focus on housing code compliance and its (when needed) willingness to hand down strong measures is powerful. Even now, the City of Cleveland is implementing new strategic code compliance measures in partnership with neighborhood-based community development corporations, to the point where there is less profit in owning worthless houses in Cleveland, and the court is redirecting the disposal of low-value foreclosed houses to local land banks …
Hip-Hop And Housing: Revisiting Culture, Urban Space, Power, And Law, Lisa T. Alexander
Hip-Hop And Housing: Revisiting Culture, Urban Space, Power, And Law, Lisa T. Alexander
Faculty Scholarship
U.S. housing law is finally receiving its due attention. Scholars and practitioners are focused primarily on the subprime mortgage and foreclosure crises. Yet the current recession has also resurrected the debate about the efficacy of place-based lawmaking. Place-based laws direct economic resources to low-income neighborhoods to help existing residents remain in place and to improve those areas. Law-and-economists and staunch integrationists attack place-based lawmaking on economic and social grounds. This Article examines the efficacy of place-based lawmaking through the underutilized prism of culture. Using a sociolegal approach, it develops a theory of cultural collective efficacy as a justification for place-based …
Virtues Of Common Ownership, Anna Di Robilant
Virtues Of Common Ownership, Anna Di Robilant
Faculty Scholarship
Professor Michael Sandel's theory of justice is attractive and inspirational for lawyers interested in social change. Sandel's call to go beyond egalitarian liberalism has real and important implications for legal and institutional engineering. However, Sandel's theory of justice is parsimonious of recommendations for medium level institutional design. It offers little detailed guidance to private lawyers called upon to design background rules for the allocation of scarce resources and necessary burdens. This essay will discuss how Sandel's theory of justice may help orient the work of lawyers and policymakers interested in a question that is central to recent property debates: the …
Unlawful Detainer Pilot Program: Report To The California Legislature, California Research Bureau
Unlawful Detainer Pilot Program: Report To The California Legislature, California Research Bureau
California Agencies
Renters who remain at a property when they no longer have a legal right to reside at the location may be sued for unlawful detainer. Most often, an unlawful detainer is filed against a renter who is no longer paying rent but continues to occupy a residence. A person may also be the subject of an unlawful detainer if they commit or allow the commission of illegal activity at a rental property. The Los Angeles City Attorney developed the pilot programs under review in this report to "surgically remove" unlawful detainers who were contributing to illegal activities as a method …
Reassessing The Citizen Virtues Of Homeownership, Stephanie M. Stern
Reassessing The Citizen Virtues Of Homeownership, Stephanie M. Stern
All Faculty Scholarship
The assumption that homeownership creates more politically and civically engaged citizens who contribute to local communities (as well as national democracy) dominates property law. This belief underlies influential theories of property and land use and justifies housing policies promoting homeownership and expanding homeownership’s reach. This Essay challenges the “citizenship virtues” of homeownership and contends that the evidence reveals a far more modest, and particularized, picture of citizenship effects than commonly assumed. I explore psychological, historical, and economic factors that may underlie the variable citizenship effects from homeownership. Some of these factors elucidate not only why owners and tenants perform similarly …
Foundations Of Federal Housing Policy, David Reiss
Foundations Of Federal Housing Policy, David Reiss
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Mortgage Foreclosures, Mortgage Morality, And Main Street: What’S Really Happening?, Jennifer M. Smith
Mortgage Foreclosures, Mortgage Morality, And Main Street: What’S Really Happening?, Jennifer M. Smith
Journal Publications
The American economy is in the tank. Millions of citizens are without jobs, overwhelmed with credit card debt, and losing their homes. The brighter side is that as a result, America has finally embraced financial reform, and the unstable economy is stabilizing marriages. Nevertheless, the United States remains in the midst of a housing crisis, and the ending remains uncertain.
There has been a media blitz about the housing crisis and Wall Street - corporate interests, but much less about the actual impact of the housing crisis on Main Street - America's working class people and small business owners. This …
The Great American Housing Bubble : The Road To Collapse, Robert M. Hardaway
The Great American Housing Bubble : The Road To Collapse, Robert M. Hardaway
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
In the aftermath of the American housing collapse in 2008, many ask why. The Great American Housing Bubble: The Road to Collapse asks a different and more fundamental question - how the bubble was created in the first place. To answer that question, it examines the causes, both political and economic, of the American housing bubble created between 1940 and 2007. Those causes encompass everything from federal income tax subsidies for housing to local exclusionary policies, banking, accounting, real estate appraisal, and credit agency rating practices and policies. The book also takes into account the impact of greed, government regulation, …
Neighbor-On-Neighbor Harassment: Does The Fair Housing Act Make A Federal Case Out Of It?, Robert G. Schwemm
Neighbor-On-Neighbor Harassment: Does The Fair Housing Act Make A Federal Case Out Of It?, Robert G. Schwemm
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Does the federal Fair Housing Act (“FHA”) ban harassing statements to a minority family who has just moved into a predominantly white neighborhood? The FHA does contain an antiharassment provision (42 U.S.C. § 3617), and this certainly applies to firebombings and other types of physical assault designed to drive the family out of the area. But does § 3617 also outlaw purely verbal attacks? And if so, how egregious must the remarks be before a federal case should be made out of them? For example, would substituting "Niggers" for "people like you" in the above quote make a difference?
Today, …
Annual Report 2010-2011: Changing With The Times, California Housing Finance Agency
Annual Report 2010-2011: Changing With The Times, California Housing Finance Agency
California Agencies
No abstract provided.
The Rise And Fall Of The Implied Warranty Of Habitability, David A. Super
The Rise And Fall Of The Implied Warranty Of Habitability, David A. Super
Faculty Scholarship
Growing concern about poverty in the late 1960s produced two sweeping legal revolutions. One gave welfare recipients rights against arbitrary eligibility rules and benefit terminations. The other gave low-income tenants recourse when landlords failed to repair their homes. The 1996 welfare law exposed the welfare rights revolution's frailty. Little-noticed by legal scholars, the tenants' rights revolution also has failed, and for broadly similar reasons. Withholding rent deliberately to challenge landlords' failure to repair is unduly risky for most tenants in ill-maintained dwellings: either moving to better housing is a better option or the risk of retaliation is too great. The …
A Psychological Investigation Of Consumer Vulnerability To Fraud: Legal And Policy Implication, 35 Law & Psychol. Rev. 61 (2011), Jessica M. Choplin, Debra Pogrund Stark, Jasmine N. Ahmad
A Psychological Investigation Of Consumer Vulnerability To Fraud: Legal And Policy Implication, 35 Law & Psychol. Rev. 61 (2011), Jessica M. Choplin, Debra Pogrund Stark, Jasmine N. Ahmad
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Petition For Review Docketed With Proof Of Service, Bracken V. Hud, Docket No. 11-03538 (Seventh Circuit Court Of Appeals 2011), J. Damian Ortiz, John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic
Petition For Review Docketed With Proof Of Service, Bracken V. Hud, Docket No. 11-03538 (Seventh Circuit Court Of Appeals 2011), J. Damian Ortiz, John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic
Court Documents and Proposed Legislation
No abstract provided.
The Due Process Rights Of Residential Tenants In Mortgage Foreclosure Cases., Henry Rose
The Due Process Rights Of Residential Tenants In Mortgage Foreclosure Cases., Henry Rose
Faculty Publications & Other Works
No abstract provided.
Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation In Florida - Implementation Challenges For An Institutionalized Program,, Sharon Press
Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation In Florida - Implementation Challenges For An Institutionalized Program,, Sharon Press
Faculty Scholarship
This Symposium is filled with examples from around the country of states grappling with how to respond to the economic crisis in general and the overwhelming number of mortgage foreclosure cases in particular. In Part II of this article, the author identifies the key impacts institutionalization had on implementation efforts. Part III describes the various approaches pursued to address the obstacles. In this part, the author examines in detail the development of a rule to define “appearance” at mediation because of its implications for the practice of mediation as a whole beyond merely the foreclosure context. Part IV provides the …
Reconceptualizing The Law Of Nuisance Through A Theory Of Economic Captivity, George P. Smith Ii, Matthew Saunig
Reconceptualizing The Law Of Nuisance Through A Theory Of Economic Captivity, George P. Smith Ii, Matthew Saunig
Scholarly Articles
Generally, the fact that a plaintiff comes to a nuisance is not a per se defense to a nuisance action. This defense is viewed in many jurisdictions as but a factor in determining whether a defendant’s conduct is an unreasonable interference with use and enjoyment of a neighbor’s property. In principle, two other affirmative defenses are — although not often allowed in practice by the courts — found in contributory negligence and assumption of the risk.
This Article seeks to develop a theory of economic captivity which embraces the notion that a plaintiff may be constrained, socio-economically, in making choices …
The Last Plank: Rethinking Public And Private Power To Advance Fair Housing, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
The Last Plank: Rethinking Public And Private Power To Advance Fair Housing, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
Faculty Scholarship
The persistence of housing discrimination more than forty years after the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) of 1968 is among the most intractable civil rights puzzle. For the most part, this puzzle is not doctrinal: the Supreme Court has interpreted the FHA only a handful of times over the last two decades – a marked contrast to frequent doctrinal contestations over the statutory scope and constitutionality of federal laws governing employment discrimination and voting rights. Instead, the central puzzle is the inefficacy of the FHA's enforcement regime given that, in formal terms, the regime is the strongest …
Can Public Nuisance Law Protect Your Neighborhood From Big Banks?, Kermit J. Lind
Can Public Nuisance Law Protect Your Neighborhood From Big Banks?, Kermit J. Lind
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This article considers how the law of public nuisance might be applied to protect neighborhoods from the destructive forces of the mortgage crisis. For more than thirty years I have been a close observer and a participant in community development at the neighborhood level in Cleveland, Ohio. I now supervise a law school clinical practice that provides legal counsel to an array of nonprofit community development corporations that, for more than thirty-five years, have been renewing housing and neighborhood sustainability in a city going through major social and economic change.
The Rise And Fall Of The Implied Warranty Of Habitability, David A. Super
The Rise And Fall Of The Implied Warranty Of Habitability, David A. Super
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Growing concern about poverty in the late 1960s produced two sweeping legal revolutions. One gave welfare recipients rights against arbitrary eligibility rules and benefit terminations. The other gave low-income tenants recourse when landlords failed to repair their homes. The 1996 welfare law exposed the welfare rights revolution's frailty. Little noticed by legal scholars, the tenants' rights revolution also has failed, and for broadly similar reasons.
Withholding rent deliberately to challenge landlords' failure to repair is unduly risky for most tenants in ill-maintained dwellings: either moving to better housing is a better option or the risk of retaliation is too great. …
The Trillion Dollar Problem Of Underwater Homeowners: Avoiding A New Surge Of Foreclosures By Encouraging Principal-Reducing Loan Modifications, Gregory S. Crespi
The Trillion Dollar Problem Of Underwater Homeowners: Avoiding A New Surge Of Foreclosures By Encouraging Principal-Reducing Loan Modifications, Gregory S. Crespi
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
There are currently well over ten million underwater homeowners whose mortgage obligations exceed the current value of their houses, with an aggregate negative equity position of at least $800 billion and possibly over $1 trillion. The overwhelming majority of these persons continue to make their mortgage payments even though for many their interests would be better served by defaulting. This is therefore an unstable situation that could suddenly erupt with a rapid cascade of millions of strategic defaults, potentially triggering severe macroeconomic dislocations. It is urgent that this situation be defused through the modification of the mortgages of a large …
Mortgage Modification And Strategic Behavior: A Contrarian Reading Of The Countrywide Financial Corporation Settlement, Gregory S. Crespi
Mortgage Modification And Strategic Behavior: A Contrarian Reading Of The Countrywide Financial Corporation Settlement, Gregory S. Crespi
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Christopher Mayer, Edward Morrison, Thomas Piskorski and Arpit Gupta of Columbia University have recently published in the Law and Finance eJournal a comprehensive study demonstrating the significant impacts on strategic default rates of the widely publicized Countrywide Financial Corporation settlement of 2008. While their study is a solid and convincing descriptive effort, their implicit assumption that strategic defaults are something to be discouraged rather than encouraged, a position that I have criticized in my earlier work, undercuts the usefulness of their work for policy guidance. From their perspective the Countrywide settlement provides a cautionary tale about difficult trade-offs to be …
Mortgage Modification And Strategic Behavior: A Contrarian Interpretation Of The Countrywide Financial Corporation Settlement, Gregory S. Crespi
Mortgage Modification And Strategic Behavior: A Contrarian Interpretation Of The Countrywide Financial Corporation Settlement, Gregory S. Crespi
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Christopher Mayer, Edward Morrison, Thomas Piskorski and Arpit Gupta of Columbia University have recently published in the Law and Finance eJournal a comprehensive study demonstrating the significant impacts on strategic default rates of the widely publicized Countrywide Financial Corporation settlement of 2008. While their study is comprehensive and carefully done, their implicit assumption that strategic defaults are something to be discouraged rather than encouraged, a position that I have criticized in my earlier work, undercuts the usefulness of their work for policy guidance. From their perspective the Countrywide settlement provides a cautionary tale about difficult trade-offs to be faced in …
On The Road To Civil Gideon: Five Lessons From The Enactment Of A Right To Counsel For Indigent Homeowners In Federal Civil Forfeiture Proceedings, Louis S. Rulli
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Conversation With President Obama: A Dialogue About Poverty, Race, And Class In Black America, Joseph Karl Grant
A Conversation With President Obama: A Dialogue About Poverty, Race, And Class In Black America, Joseph Karl Grant
Journal Publications
The date is November 13, 2012.1 Just mere days ago, I received the invitation of a lifetime. Last night, I arrived in Washington, D.C. I am staying in the Hay-Adams Hotel on the third floor. I still cannot believe the extent of my life's journey. I have just been summoned to the White House by second term President-elect Barack Obama, who defeated Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for President on November 6, 2012. The 2012 Presidential Election was a hard-fought battle between Barack Obama on the Democratic side, and Mitt Romney on Republican side. The election was a like the …
Exploring The Determinants Of High-Cost Mortgages To Homeowners In Low- And Moderate-Income Neighborhoods, Michael S. Barr, Jane K. Dokko, Benjamin J. Keys
Exploring The Determinants Of High-Cost Mortgages To Homeowners In Low- And Moderate-Income Neighborhoods, Michael S. Barr, Jane K. Dokko, Benjamin J. Keys
Book Chapters
In spite of the recent impetus to reform home mortgage markets, particularly as they affect low- and moderate-income (LMI) households, little systematic evidence is available about how potential abuses in mortgage lending manifest in the mortgages held by those households. While racial discrimination in mortgage markets has a long history in the United States, the role of mortgage brokers in lending has only recently increased and become controversial. In this chapter, we uncover two mechanisms through which differential mortgage pricing occurs among LMI homeowners: black borrowers and borrowers who use mortgage brokers pay more for mortgage loans than other borrowers, …