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Articles 1 - 6 of 6
Full-Text Articles in Social Welfare Law
A Critical Jeffersonian Mind For A Community Reinvestment Bind, Chaz Brooks
A Critical Jeffersonian Mind For A Community Reinvestment Bind, Chaz Brooks
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 ("CRA") primarily sought to remedy decades of government sanctioned disinvestment in so-called “redlined communities.” Through the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and later the Federal Housing Administration, the United States of America created from whole cloth a structure that encouraged and subsidized the explosion of homeownership in white American households. Following decades of racialized wealth generation, the United States had a change of heart. Congress determined that financiers needed a gentle push to invest fairly. Additionally, Congress wanted one thing clear in the drafting of this remedy—it must not allocate credit.
This essay considers how …
Court Personalities And Impoverished Parents, Ezra Rosser
Court Personalities And Impoverished Parents, Ezra Rosser
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Professor Tonya Brito's in-depth examination of the pursuit of child support from poor fathers continues to pay significant dividends that extend well beyond family law. Producing Justice in Poor People's Courts: Four Models of State Legal Actors highlights the that differing personalities and approaches can have on impoverished parents involved in child-support-enforcement disputes before the courts. Based on an impressive ethnographic study, Brito's article shows how the actors involved craft stories about impoverished family dynamics as a way to make sense of their own role and complicity in an often unjust system of regulating poor families.
Exploiting The Poor: Housing, Markets, And Vulnerability, Ezra Rosser
Exploiting The Poor: Housing, Markets, And Vulnerability, Ezra Rosser
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Matthew Desmond provocatively claims that landlords exploit poor tenants in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016). This essay celebrates Desmond's work and explores the exploitation claim, focusing on how landlords deliberately exploit vulnerable tenants and on forms of market-based exploitation.
Exiling The Poor: The Clash Of Redevelopment And Fair Housing In Post-Katrina New Orleans, Anita Sinha, Judith Browne-Dianis
Exiling The Poor: The Clash Of Redevelopment And Fair Housing In Post-Katrina New Orleans, Anita Sinha, Judith Browne-Dianis
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Legislative Updates, Daniel Raposa
The Death Knell For School Expulsion: The 1997 Amendments To The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act , Theresa J. Bryant
The Death Knell For School Expulsion: The 1997 Amendments To The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act , Theresa J. Bryant
American University Law Review
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