Out Of House, And Home: Refocusing On Homelessness, Vulnerable Populations, And Human Rights, 2012 Wayne State University
Out Of House, And Home: Refocusing On Homelessness, Vulnerable Populations, And Human Rights, Adele M. Morrison
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Exclusionary Zoning Enforcement: Passe Or Alive And Kicking?, 2012 University of San Francisco, School of Law
Exclusionary Zoning Enforcement: Passe Or Alive And Kicking?, Tim Iglesias
Tim Iglesias
This newsletter article analyzes four recent exclusionary zoning cases in which courts ruled against the government. Based upon the analysis, it offers recommendations to local governments on avoiding exclusionary zoning liability.
The Quiet Revolution Goes West: The Oregon Planning Program 1961-2011, 2012 Portland State University
The Quiet Revolution Goes West: The Oregon Planning Program 1961-2011, Edward J. Sullivan
Edward J Sullivan
No abstract provided.
The Role Of The Law In The Availability Of Public Transit And Affordable Housing In Atlanta’S West End, 2012 Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
The Role Of The Law In The Availability Of Public Transit And Affordable Housing In Atlanta’S West End, Elliott Lipinsky
ELLIOTT LIPINSKY
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation that administers federal funds and provides technical assistance for the support of locally operated public transit systems. MARTA / Atlanta metro area are part of FTA Region IV (the Southeast). FTA would be involved, for instance, in financing the federal grant monies discussed above. But actual regulation of operations (i.e., what MARTA does each day, or what MARTA will plan to do regionally) is more closely regulated by Georgia agencies.
Until recently, the Atlanta metropolitan area had no powerful central agency to coordinate regional transit. The …
Code Compliance Enforcement In The Mortgage Crisis, 2012 Cleveland Marshall College of Law
Code Compliance Enforcement In The Mortgage Crisis, Kermit J. Lind
Kermit J. Lind
This is a short presentation of suggestions for better code compliance enforcement. It takes into account the distresses brought about by the mortgage crisis. It calls for a strategic approach rather than a reactive approach. It assumes a necessity for making choices about what policing programs and actions will produce maximum compliance beneficial to residents and occupying homeowners in residential neighborhoods.
Canines On Campus: Companion Animals At Postsecondary Educational Institutions, 2012 SelectedWorks
Canines On Campus: Companion Animals At Postsecondary Educational Institutions, Rebecca J. Huss
Rebecca J. Huss
This Article focuses on the issues that arise when students wish to attend a postsecondary institution accompanied by an animal. The Article begins by analyzing the federal law applicable to students bringing service and assistance animals to campus. The use of animal-assisted activities on campus is also explored. The Article continues with an examination of policies allowing students to have companion animals in campus housing. Concerns raised by administrators about allowing animals on campus are then considered. Finally, the Article sets forth the measures an educational institution should implement to ensure compliance with the law and proposes actions that can …
Mixed-Income Housing: A Collaborative Strategy To Spark Urban Economic Development, 2012 Loyola University Chicago, School of Law
Mixed-Income Housing: A Collaborative Strategy To Spark Urban Economic Development, Daina Staisiunas
Public Interest Law Reporter
No abstract provided.
"Step By Step The Longest March Can Be Won": The Struggle To Define Housing As A Human Right, 2012 Loyola University Chicago, School of Law
"Step By Step The Longest March Can Be Won": The Struggle To Define Housing As A Human Right, John Bartlett
Public Interest Law Reporter
No abstract provided.
How The Pursuit Of The American Dream Turned Into Chicago's Housing Nightmare, 2012 Loyola University Chicago, School of Law
How The Pursuit Of The American Dream Turned Into Chicago's Housing Nightmare, Laughlin Cutler
Public Interest Law Reporter
No abstract provided.
Cause And Effect: Criminalizing The American Dream, 2012 Loyola University Chicago, School of Law
Cause And Effect: Criminalizing The American Dream, Jessica Sanchez
Public Interest Law Reporter
No abstract provided.
Complaint, Kristofek V. Richard Yanz, Et Al, Docket No. 1:12-Cv-08340 (Northern District Of Illinois Oct 17, 2012), 2012 John Marshall Law School
Complaint, Kristofek V. Richard Yanz, Et Al, Docket No. 1:12-Cv-08340 (Northern District Of Illinois Oct 17, 2012), Allison Bethel, John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic
Court Documents and Proposed Legislation
No abstract provided.
Response/Reply Brief Of Appellants/Cross-Appellees, Jacob Scoggins V. Lee's Crossing Homeowners, 718 F.3d 262, Docket No. 11-02202 (Seventh Circuit Court Of Appeals 2013), 2012 John Marshall Law School
Response/Reply Brief Of Appellants/Cross-Appellees, Jacob Scoggins V. Lee's Crossing Homeowners, 718 F.3d 262, Docket No. 11-02202 (Seventh Circuit Court Of Appeals 2013), J. Damian Ortiz, John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic
Court Documents and Proposed Legislation
No abstract provided.
Consumer Rights Screening Tool For Domestic Violence Advocates And Lawyers, 2012 University of New Hampshire School of Law
Consumer Rights Screening Tool For Domestic Violence Advocates And Lawyers, Leah A. Plunkett, Erica A. Sussman
Law Faculty Scholarship
The information is this document is intended for use by advocates and attorneys working with survivors of domestic violence in understanding the common types of consumer problems faced by the survivors. The document provides an overview of the common consumer issues faced by survivors and offers solid guidance on how advocates and attorneys can identify these issues when working the survivors. The report begins with an overview of the role of economic abuse in cases of domestic violence. This is followed by a brief look at common consumer issues faced by survivors that include managing household income and expenses, credit …
Imagining A Right To Housing, Lying In The Interstices, 2012 Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
Imagining A Right To Housing, Lying In The Interstices, Shelby D. Green
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article explores whether the philosophical and constitutional predicates for the recognition of a right to housing exist in some form in our nation’s jurisprudence and political order. Part II traces the evolution of the concept of “rights” from that embraced by the country’s founders to the present, how such a right to housing would fit within the dialogue of property rights, the notion of ownership, and the interest in liberty. Part III discusses the historical role of the court in protecting housing. Part IV discusses the notion of protecting rights to housing under existing equal protection and due process …
Responding To The Mortgage Crisis: Three Cleveland Examples, 2012 Cleveland State University
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 …
Overcoming Structural Barriers To Integrated Housing: A Back-To-The-Future Reflection On The Fair Housing Act's "Affirmatively Further" Mandate, 2012 University of Kentucky College of Law
Overcoming Structural Barriers To Integrated Housing: A Back-To-The-Future Reflection On The Fair Housing Act's "Affirmatively Further" Mandate, Robert G. Schwemm
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
A key goal of the 1968 Fair Housing Act (“FHA”), which was passed as an immediate response to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, was to replace the ghettos with “truly integrated and balanced living patterns.” It hasn’t happened. Today, more than four decades after the FHA’s passage, “residential segregation remains a key feature of America’s urban landscape,” continuing to condemn new generations of minorities to a second–class set of opportunities and undercutting a variety of national goals for all citizens.
But recent developments dealing with an underutilized provision of the FHA – § 3608’s mandate that federal housing funds …
Misbehavior And Mistake In Bankruptcy Mortgage Claims: Some Caveats Regarding The Porter Study, 2012 Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
Misbehavior And Mistake In Bankruptcy Mortgage Claims: Some Caveats Regarding The Porter Study, Gregory S. Crespi
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
This Article reviews the comprehensive empirical study of the bankruptcy mortgage foreclosure process conducted by Professor Katherine Porter and subsequently published in 2008 in the Texas Law Review. The results of her study, which analyzed 1,768 proof of claim submissions filed in a sample of 1,733 Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings, strongly suggest that there is a pervasive failure on the part of mortgage creditors to meet all of the formal documentation requirements for filing such bankruptcy claims. This documentation failure arguably impedes many mortgage debtors or bankruptcy trustees from reviewing these claims for their accuracy.
Porter's conclusion that the itemization …
Maryland Foreclosure Mediation - Working Or Waning? A Critical Look At The State's Foreclosure Mediation Program, 2012 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Maryland Foreclosure Mediation - Working Or Waning? A Critical Look At The State's Foreclosure Mediation Program, Chelsea Jones
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Homeownership — Dream Or Disaster?, 2012 Saint Louis University School of Law
Homeownership — Dream Or Disaster?, Peter W. Salsich
All Faculty Scholarship
This article discusses the impact of the foreclosure crisis on the housing prospects of American families. Foreclosure is governed by state law, which establishes a procedure to enable lenders to recover property from defaulting borrowers through a public sale process. States authorize two different methods, judicial foreclosure, in which the foreclosure process requires a judicial hearing, and power of sale foreclosure, in which a trustee can offer mortgaged property to the highest bidder at a public sale after giving twenty days public notice. Judicial foreclosure is administered by state courts in twenty-three states. The power of sale foreclosure process is …
Does America Need Public Housing?, 2012 Saint Louis University School of Law
Does America Need Public Housing?, Peter W. Salsich
All Faculty Scholarship
Does Twenty-First Century America Need Publicly-Owned Housing? This question was being asked in 2011, as an era of sharply-curtailed discretionary government spending dawned in the aftermath of the debt limitation crisis. From its inception in 1937 to the present, public housing remains the housing program with the deepest subsidy, designed for households who cannot compete effectively in the private housing market and, since the 1950s, the program that reaches the lowest income quadrant of society. Questions posed in 2011 center around the future of the 1.1 million public housing units in existence (down from 1.4 million two decades ago), all …