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Housing And Community Development: Cases And Materials, 4th Edition, James Kushner, Charles Daye, Peter Salsich, Henry Mcgee, W. Keating, Barbara Bezdek, Otto Hetzel, Daniel Mandelker, Robert Washburn Nov 2011

Housing And Community Development: Cases And Materials, 4th Edition, James Kushner, Charles Daye, Peter Salsich, Henry Mcgee, W. Keating, Barbara Bezdek, Otto Hetzel, Daniel Mandelker, Robert Washburn

Barbara L Bezdek

The fourth edition of Housing and Community Development presents a fresh and comprehensive look at housing law and policy with full coverage of the foreclosure crisis and its aftermath, exploring housing policies and neighborhood revitalization policies to address the new urban reality. It also discusses the issue of sustainability and the relationship between community development, housing, and climate change. The book contains materials covering housing policy and litigation; tenants’ rights in the private and public spheres; urban redevelopment, including a comprehensive look at Kelo v. New London, including its setting and aftermath; and a completely revised section of the …


Reconstructing A Pedagogy Of Responsibility, Barbara Bezdek Aug 2009

Reconstructing A Pedagogy Of Responsibility, Barbara Bezdek

Barbara L Bezdek

No abstract provided.


To Attain “The Just Rewards Of So Much Struggle”: Local-Resident Equity Participation In Urban Revitalization, Barbara Bezdek Aug 2009

To Attain “The Just Rewards Of So Much Struggle”: Local-Resident Equity Participation In Urban Revitalization, Barbara Bezdek

Barbara L Bezdek

Annually, Americans pour out their sympathy for people displaced from their communities by natural disasters such as fires, floods, and hurricanes. We respond, knowing the anchor that the concept of “home” supplies to body, soul, and family; we intuit the toll exacted by the loss of familiar walls, private homes and community-shared places. Yet, redevelopment policy and practice in the U.S. today relies upon the massive relocation of poor people and the destruction of poor people’s neighborhoods with only token recognition of the costs and burdens imposed on the displaced. Although the devastation of community, family, and lives is just …


"Legal Theory And Practice" Development At The University Of Maryland: One Teacher's Experience In Programmatic Context, Barbara Bezdek Aug 2009

"Legal Theory And Practice" Development At The University Of Maryland: One Teacher's Experience In Programmatic Context, Barbara Bezdek

Barbara L Bezdek

No abstract provided.