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Municipal Overreaching; Federal Preemption As It Applies To Town Ordinances Outlawing The Rental Of Housing To Undocumented Aliens, Hayden Patrick O'Byrne
Municipal Overreaching; Federal Preemption As It Applies To Town Ordinances Outlawing The Rental Of Housing To Undocumented Aliens, Hayden Patrick O'Byrne
Hayden Patrick O'Byrne
Within the past year or so a handful of towns around the United States have passed ordinances prohibiting undocumented aliens from renting housing. This paper explores how these ordinances are incompatible with the Federal Immigration Scheme and preempted by Federal Law.
Our Pluralist Housing Ethics And The Struggle For Affordability, Tim Iglesias
Our Pluralist Housing Ethics And The Struggle For Affordability, Tim Iglesias
Tim Iglesias
Building on recent scholarship, this Article explores the five “housing ethics” that have historically shaped U.S. housing law and policy: (1) housing as an economic good, (2) housing as home, (3) housing as a human right, (4) housing as providing social order, and (5) housing as one land use in a functional system. The “housing ethic” framework brings all of America’s housing law and policy under one conceptual roof. The Article argues that each of these housing ethics is deeply embedded in American housing policy and law, and that none has ever achieved a complete hegemony, i.e., that coexistence and …
Property And Radically Changed Circumstances, John Lovett
Property And Radically Changed Circumstances, John Lovett
John Lovett
Although Hurricane Katrina altered our national dialogue about many issues, few scholars have addressed whether the storm changed thinking about fundamental property relationships. This article fills that void in two ways. First, it creates a theoretical framework for understanding property law in the context of events producing radically changed circumstances. It does this by defining these events, exploring the mismatch between property law’s traditional focus on stability and environments of radical change, creating a taxonomy of property relationships tailored for this exploration, describing typical problems confronted after an event of radical change, and finally developing a set of normative criteria …
The Houses That Eminent Domain And Housing Tax Credits Built: Imagining A Better New Orleans, Serena M. Williams, Carol N. Brown
The Houses That Eminent Domain And Housing Tax Credits Built: Imagining A Better New Orleans, Serena M. Williams, Carol N. Brown
Serena M Williams
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