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Equity And Efficacy In Washington State's Gma Affordable Housing Goal, Henry Mcgee
Equity And Efficacy In Washington State's Gma Affordable Housing Goal, Henry Mcgee
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This essay considers the basis for the Washington State's Growth Management Act’s (GMA) affordable housing goal, considers the relationship between its achievement and the reduction of urban sprawl. It also links the GMA's goal of an equitable distribution of housing resources to a fundamental social aspiration described by the United States Congress as a "decent home and living environment for all Americans." Indeed, it will be argued that the economic disparity and inequity directly linked to urban sprawl-both a cause as well as an effect-are locked ineluctably to a pathological social process in which they feed upon each other. Continued …
Gentrification And The Law: Combatting Urban Displacement, Henry Mcgee, Donald C. Bryant Jr.
Gentrification And The Law: Combatting Urban Displacement, Henry Mcgee, Donald C. Bryant Jr.
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This article stresses a "push" perspective in its examination of how these legally structured forces have stimulated the return of the gentry to the central urban areas of the United States.
Power(Lessness) And Dispersion: Comments On Chester Mcguire's The Urban Development Act Of 1974, Community Development Funds And Black Economic Problems, Henry Mcgee
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Professor McGee discusses Chester McGuire's comprehensive, provocative and good-humored assessment of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (HCDA). McGuire suggests both ominous and benign trends in the shift of political power and allocation of material resources in the United States. In analyzing the McGuire’s assessment of the HCDA, Professor McGee addresses how the act affects minority groups, particularly Black Americans.
Housing Subsidies In The U.S. And England, Henry Mcgee
Housing Subsidies In The U.S. And England, Henry Mcgee
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In this article Professor McGee reviews “Housing Subsidies in the United States and England”, by Daniel Mandelker. Professor McGee details the concerns and controversies about the allocation of housing funds, and provides a thorough critique of Mandelker’s comparison of the two countries.
Urban Renewal In The Crucible Of Judicial Review, Henry Mcgee
Urban Renewal In The Crucible Of Judicial Review, Henry Mcgee
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An agency is not an island entire of itself. It is one of the many rooms in the magnificent mansion of the law. The very subordination of the agency to judicial jurisdiction is intended to proclaim the premise that each agency is to be brought into harmony with the totality of the law; the law as it is found in the statute at hand, the statute book at large, the principles and conceptions of the "common law," and the ultimate guarantees associated with the Constitution.
Adjacent Airspace In The Law Of Landlord And Tenant, Henry Mcgee
Adjacent Airspace In The Law Of Landlord And Tenant, Henry Mcgee
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Professor McGee comments on whether tenants have rights to the airspace that extends beyond the exterior of the walls bounding the premises. Two of the issues put forth in cases are television antenna and air conditioners that protrude from tenants' windows. Professor McGee reviews some of the court cases that have help settle the issue of airspace rights, and finds that the courts have consistently held that the circle of the tenant's rights is great in circumference.