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Neighborhood Housing Services: A Program With Promise, Charles L. Thiemann
Neighborhood Housing Services: A Program With Promise, Charles L. Thiemann
Vanderbilt Law Review
Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) is a concept concerned with the problem of neighborhood preservation and revitalization. It is also a program that has developed out of this concept which many believe has much promise as a means of dealing with these problems. What reasons do we have for believing that NHS is a program with promise? How is the concept of Neighborhood Housing Services germane to the problem of neighborhood preservation and revitalization? What is the nature of the problem of neighborhood preservation and revitalization? These are the questions addressed in this article.
Eliminating Redlining By Judicial Action: Are Erasers Available?, Paul A. Renne
Eliminating Redlining By Judicial Action: Are Erasers Available?, Paul A. Renne
Vanderbilt Law Review
This paper will consider one practice--mortgage disinvestment, commonly referred to as "redlining"--which has worked incontravention to the declared policy of Congress by contributing to the destruction of the urban housing inventory and has been partly responsible for the failure to meet our housing goals. This paper will discuss the concept and effects of redlining, the relevant statutes and administrative regulations, and the use of class action litigation as a means of eliminating the practice. Before turning to this discussion, however, it is important to emphasize that eliminating the practice of redlining will prove no panacea to our urban problems. It …