Seattle University School of Law
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Western University
Georgetown University Law Center
San Jose State University
University of Michigan Law School
University of Kentucky College of Law
Boston College Law School
Midat Sodom And The Housing Affordability Crisis,
2019
Touro Law Center
Midat Sodom And The Housing Affordability Crisis, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Path To Destruction: Cook County's Property Tax System Is A Cause For Concern As It Mimics The Defunct Taxing Procedures That Led To The Detroit Foreclosure Crisis,
2019
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Path To Destruction: Cook County's Property Tax System Is A Cause For Concern As It Mimics The Defunct Taxing Procedures That Led To The Detroit Foreclosure Crisis, Robert Romano
Chicago-Kent Law Review
For decades, Cook County, Illinois, has had one of the highest property tax rates in the country, and as a result the County has begun to experience unprecedented foreclosure rates which has contributed, in part, to the State’s significant population decline. Residents are forced to endure a property tax system that disproportionately burdens low-income homeowners, while providing tax breaks to higher-income individuals and commercial owners. The primary causes and characteristics of Cook County’s defunct property tax system are strikingly similar to those that sent the City of Detroit spiraling into bankruptcy in 2013.
This note provides a comparative ...
Housing, Healthism, And The Hud Smoke-Free Policy,
2019
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Housing, Healthism, And The Hud Smoke-Free Policy, Dave Fagundes, Jessica L. Roberts
Northwestern University Law Review
On July 30, 2018, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule prohibiting residents of public housing from smoking within twenty-five feet of any housing project took effect. These new regulations—HUD’s “smoke-free policy”—received near-universal acclaim as a means to improve public health, in particular by reducing vulnerable populations’ exposure to secondhand smoke. This Essay analyzes the smoke-free policy from the perspective of healthism—discrimination on the basis of health status. We argue that banning public housing residents from smoking is unfairly discriminatory for a variety of reasons. To start, the rule may not achieve ...
Housing, Healthism, And The Hud Smoke-Free Policy,
2018
University of Houston Law Center
Housing, Healthism, And The Hud Smoke-Free Policy, Dave Fagundes, Jessica L. Roberts
NULR Online
No abstract provided.
Regulating Short-Term Accommodation Within Condominium,
2018
Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia
Regulating Short-Term Accommodation Within Condominium, Douglas C. Harris
Faculty Publications
Owning land within condominium, or strata property as it is known in British Columbia, includes holding an individual strata lot, a share of the common property, and the right to participate in governing the uses of the private and common property. Owners participate in governing through membership and voting rights in a strata corporation which has the responsibility to maintain the common property and the authority to establish bylaws that restrict the use of the common and private property. The corollary of membership and a voice in the affairs of the strata corporation is a duty to accept its governing ...
Introduction To Transit-Oriented Development,
2018
Touro Law Center
Introduction To Transit-Oriented Development, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Elizabeth Warren’S New Housing Proposal Is Actually A Brilliant Plan To Close The Racial Wealth Gap,
2018
University of Georgia School of Law
Elizabeth Warren’S New Housing Proposal Is Actually A Brilliant Plan To Close The Racial Wealth Gap, Mehrsa Baradaran, Darrick Hamilton
Popular Media
Last month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a $450 billion housing plan called the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act. The proposal is a comprehensive and bold step toward providing affordable housing for the most vulnerable Americans. The bill is the first since the Fair Housing Act with the explicit intent of redressing the iterative effects of our nation’s sordid history of housing discrimination. Critically, it has the potential to make a substantive dent in closing our enormous and persistent racial wealth gap.
The Criminalization Of Vehicle Residency And The Case For Judicial Intervention Via The Washington State Homestead Act,
2018
Seattle University School of Law
The Criminalization Of Vehicle Residency And The Case For Judicial Intervention Via The Washington State Homestead Act, T. Ray Ivey
Seattle University Law Review
In 2014, a nationwide survey by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty found that the number of cities with ordinances that effectively criminalized vehicle habitation increased by 119% between 2011 and 2014. These ordinances take the form of metered street parking zones, permit-only parking zones, time restrictions, restrictions on vehicle operability, restrictions regarding licensing and registration, and even prohibitions directed specifically at vehicle habitation. Violations of these policies typically result in noncriminal citations imposing fees, requiring attendance at hearings, or inflicting other financial burdens, which nevertheless can have devastating impacts on someone with already limited resources. Additionally, the ...
Florida's Housing Trust Fund -- Addressing The State's Affordable Housing Needs,
2018
Florida State University College of Law
Florida's Housing Trust Fund -- Addressing The State's Affordable Housing Needs, Kristin Larsen
Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
No abstract provided.
The End Of The Home Affordable Modification Program And The Start Of A New Problem,
2018
Brooklyn Law School
The End Of The Home Affordable Modification Program And The Start Of A New Problem, Christopher K. Whelan
Brooklyn Law Review
The mortgage crisis hit the United States hard, leaving millions of homeowners facing hardship and foreclosure. One of many programs enacted during the mortgage crisis was the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). The Obama Administration set out to assist three to four million struggling homeowners in modifying their mortgages and avoiding foreclosure. This note examines HAMP, focusing on the years of litigation that shaped HAMP, giving life to a program that was built on a foundation ready to crack. HAMP provided homeowners with modified mortgage payments, typically beginning with a trial period plan. Once completed, homeowners were routinely denied, resulting ...
Taking Away The Tightrope: Fixing The National Flood Insurance Program Circus Via Eminent Domain,
2018
Brooklyn Law School
Taking Away The Tightrope: Fixing The National Flood Insurance Program Circus Via Eminent Domain, Alexander S. Mendelson
Brooklyn Law Review
As Harvey, Irma, Maria and other major 2017 storms washed upon the shores of the United States, millions of people across the nation in major cities and rural areas alike found their possessions, their homes, and sadly in many cases their lives, washed away with the storms. The destructive hurricane season came just as Congress began to consider the reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a federal system of subsidized flood insurance created to fill a void left by private insurers in the 1960s. Extreme weather events such as these illustrate the need for such a program and ...
Fair Share: Reinvigorating The Twin Cities’ Regional Affordable Housing Calculus,
2018
University of Minnesota Law School
Fair Share: Reinvigorating The Twin Cities’ Regional Affordable Housing Calculus, Chase Hamilton
Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice
No abstract provided.
Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever?,
2018
University of Minnesota Law School
Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever?, Elizabeth K. Julian
Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice
No abstract provided.
The Persistence Of Segregation In The 21st Century,
2018
University of Minnesota Law School
The Persistence Of Segregation In The 21st Century, Paul A. Jargowsky
Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice
No abstract provided.
The Summit For Civil Rights: Mission, Structure, And Initial Outcomes,
2018
University of Minnesota Law School
The Summit For Civil Rights: Mission, Structure, And Initial Outcomes, Myron Orfield, William Stancil
Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice
No abstract provided.
50 Years Later—The State Of Civil Rights And Opportunity In America,
2018
University of Minnesota Law School
50 Years Later—The State Of Civil Rights And Opportunity In America, Catherine E. Lhamon
Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice
Abridged Transcript, The Summit for Civil Rights, November 9, 2017
A Conversation On Learning From The History Of The Civil Rights Movement,
2018
University of Minnesota Law School
A Conversation On Learning From The History Of The Civil Rights Movement, Walter F. Mondale
Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice
Introduction & Abridged Transcript, The Summit for Civil Rights, November 10, 2017
Maintaining Condominiums And Homeowner Associations: How Much Of A Priority?,
2018
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Maintaining Condominiums And Homeowner Associations: How Much Of A Priority?, Stewart E. Sterk
Indiana Law Journal
This Article starts, in Part I, by exploring existing lien priorities, including state variations. Part II analyzes the impact of the recent foreclosure crisis, surveying the case law that has arisen in response to that crisis. Part III focuses on the normative analysis, explaining why legislatures should accord lien priority to associations. Part IV addresses implementation issues.
The Rise Of Market Urbanism,
2018
Touro Law Center
The Rise Of Market Urbanism, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
A View From American Courts: The Year In Indian Law 2017,
2018
Seattle University School of Law
A View From American Courts: The Year In Indian Law 2017, Grant Christensen
Seattle University Law Review
This Article provides a comprehensive review of Indian law for 2017. It does not include a citation to every case related to Indian law issued by the courts but tries to incorporate the majority of opinions into its catalog to provide a robust discussion of the changes in Indian law over the course of 2017. Part I of this Article provides some general statistics about Indian law in 2017. Part II focuses on activity at the U.S. Supreme Court, which is the most watched forum for Indian law cases for obvious reasons. Part III groups cases by subject area ...
