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How We Got Where We Are: The Lessons Of History, David J. Reiss

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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1995-1996 Home Energy Assistance Program (Heap) Rule, Maine State Housing Authority

Maine Collection

1995-1996 Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) Rule

State of Maine / Maine State Housing Authority / David Lakari, Director

Augusta, Maine, September 1995.

(Proposed Amendments to Home Energy Assistance Program Rule)

Chapter 24 - Home Energy Assistance Program Rule

Sections: 1. Definitions / 2. Eligibility / 3. Sub-Grantees / 4. Application / 5. Payment of Benefits / 6. Energy Crisis Intervention Program / 7. HEAP Weatherization and Central Heating Improvement Program (CHIP) / 8. Indian Tribes / 9. Administration of HEAP / 10. Monitoring / 11. Noncompliance / 12. Procurement / 13. Fair Hearings / 14. Additional Provisions

The Fourth Amendment's Forcing Of Flawed Choices: Giving Content To Freedom For Residents Of Public Housing - Pratt V. Chicago Housing Authority, 848 F. Supp. 792 (N.D. Ill. 1994), Erika George

Faculty Scholarship

In April 1994, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a preliminary injunction halting the "Operation Clean Sweep" program operated by the Chicago Housing Authority ("CHA"). ³ The court did so over the protestations of some of those most affected, the public housing residents subjected to the CHA's searches. ⁴ Pratt v. Chicago Housing Authority⁵ attracted the attention of the nation and President William Clinton, who requested that the Justice Department investigate ways to strengthen security in public housing without offending the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution.

Civil libertarians applauded …

Who Is A Tenant - The Correct Definition Of The Status In North Carolina, John V. Orth

North Carolina Central Law Review

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Past Is Present: Urban Real Property Rights And Housing Reform In The People's Republic Of China, William D. Soileau

Washington International Law Journal

Since the early 1980s China has embarked on an ambitious program of reform in the systems of urban real property rights and allocation. In many respects, these reforms recall the policies of private property rights protection which prevailed in the early post-Liberation period of P.R.C. history, but which were subsequently abandoned in the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. In the intervening thirty years, however, the system of "public" urban housing ownership and allocation deteriorated to such an extent that no one—neither the state, its agents, nor private individuals—had sufficient incentives to increase or even preserve these resources. Faced with …

Housing Hurdles: Experiences Of The Oneida Indian Nation, Keller George

St. Thomas Law Review

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Solutions To The Affordable Housing Crisis: Perspectives On Privatization, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 263 (1995), Peter W. Salsich Jr.

UIC Law Review

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Is It A Crime To Live In Public Housing - A Proposal To The Illinois General Assembly To Amend The Automatic Transfer Statute, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 855 (1994), Martin J. O'Hara

UIC Law Review

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Introduction To Mortgage Lending Discrimination Law, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 317 (1995), Robert G. Schwemm

UIC Law Review

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An Overview Of Fair Lending Legislation, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 333 (1995), Deanna Caldwell

UIC Law Review

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Fair Lending Conference: Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Report, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 343 (1995), Allen Fishbein

UIC Law Review

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Reviewing Loan Files For Evidence Of Discrimination, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 351 (1995), Zina Gefter Greene

UIC Law Review

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Investigating Claims Of Discrimination In Housing Finance, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 371 (1995), Stephen M. Dane

UIC Law Review

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The Attorney General's Comprehensive Program To Reform The Mortgage Lending Industry In Massachusetts, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 383 (1995), Richard Cole

UIC Law Review

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Mains Farm V. Worthington: Fair Housing Laws And Fear Of Adult Family Homes, Todd H. Carlisle

Seattle University Law Review

Although the Mains Farm majority's conclusion that a group home for the disabled is neither a single-family dwelling nor a residential use is certainly questionable,7 this Note is neither intended as an addition to the "what is a family?" definitional debate, nor as a proposal that the issues decided in Mains Farm be re-litigated. Instead, this Note will: (1) analyze the Mains Farm controversy from the often ignored perspective of disabled individuals who benefit from community based group homes, and (2) present applicable state and federal law by which group homes threatened with judicial attack in the wake of the …

Credit Reports And The Fair Credit Reporting Act, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 365 (1995), Roland C. Claiborne

UIC Law Review

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Amicus Curiae Brief, Simms V. First Gibraltar Bank, 83 F.3d 1546 (5th Cir. 1996) (No. 94-20386), F. Willis Caruso, Michael P. Seng, John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic

Court Documents and Proposed Legislation

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Opening Doors: How To Cut Discrimination By Supporting Neighborhood Integration, John Yinger

Center for Policy Research

The last few years have witnessed a quantum leap in the enforcement of fair housing and fair lending legislation. The 1988 Fair Housing Amendments Act gave new enforcement powers to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Justice. For example, HUD can how initiate complaints against housing agents who discriminate. Moreover, several events, including release of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, which show wide disparities in loan acceptance rates between whites on the one hand and blacks and Hispanics on the other, have led financial regulatory agencies such as the Federal Reserve Board …

Introduction To Mortgage Lending Discrimination Law, Robert G. Schwemm

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Although mortgage lending discrimination and the laws that forbid it have been a part of the American landscape for over two decades, it has only been in recent years that this subject has captured the attention of the public, Congress, and federal enforcement officials. The result has been a tremendous upsurge in interest in this field. Still, there are relatively few cases that have been litigated to a conclusion on the merits, and fewer still that have resulted in plaintiff's victories. Thus, we find ourselves in an exciting period of great potential, but as yet not fully realized accomplishment, as …

Reflections On Inclusionary Housing And A Renewed Look At Its Viability, Laura M. Padilla

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores property rights, housing policy, and affordable housing.

Is There Life After Abandonment--The Key Role Of New York City's In Rem Housing In Establishing An Entitlement To Decent, Affordable Housing, Andrew Scherer

Articles & Chapters

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Local And Federal Statutory And Regulatory Bases For Preventing Lead Poisoning, Lucy Billings

Articles & Chapters

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Solutions To The Affordable Housing Crisis: Perspectives On Privatization, Peter W. Salsich

All Faculty Scholarship

This article examines the government efforts to respond to affordable housing issues and summarizes the criticisms of these policies and programs. The author focuses on the privatization movement which pushes for a reduction in government participation in public housing activities in order to transfer control and responsibility to the private sector. The article also reviews European policies such as the concept of social housing. The article stresses that careful attention must be paid to the privatization mechanisms selected and emphasizes that shared expectations, shared values, and shared commitment can bring about a successful affordable housing strategy. The article describes some …

In From The Cold: Energy Efficiency And The Reform Of Hud's Utility Allowance System, Steven Ferrey

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

This article takes a step beyond Professor Ferrey’s prior article published at Harvard, “Cold Power: Energy and Public Housing,” 23 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 33 (1986), to review and document housing energy problems at the federal and local levels. It offers concrete proposals for a revised federal utility allowance system that, while recognizing technological

limitations facing public housing authorities, would employ more sophisticated statistical tools to administer better the federal utility allowance system.

Public and Section 8 housing are the two largest sources of low-income rental housing in the nation, subsidizing several million units in more than 3000 communities nationwide. …

Takings Clause

Touro Law Review

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Salvaging The Opportunity: A Response To Professor Clark, Michael J. Yelnosky

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

In this Article, Professor Yelnosky responds to Professor Clark's critique of his previous article, Filling an Enforcement Void: Using Testers to Uncover and Remedy Discrimination in Hiring for Lower-Skilled, Entry-Level Jobs. Professor Yelnosky first clarifies that Professor Clark has adopted several of the points Professor Yelnosky originally made in his earlier article. He then responds to the portions of Professor Clark's article that challenge his prior conclusions. He builds on and defends his previous arguments that: (1) testing is best suited to uncover hiring discrimination for lower-skilled jobs; (2) disincentives to bringing tester lawsuits make it unwise to rely …

Pushing The Law To Encompass The Reality Of Our Families: Protecting Lesbian And Gay Families From Eviction From Their Homes - Braschi'S Functional Definition Of Family And Beyond, Paris R. Baldacci

Articles

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Redevelopment Redefined: Revitalizing The Central City With Resident Control, Benjamin B. Quinones

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Misguided redevelopment has been both a symptom of, and a means for achieving, inappropriate urban development goals. Requiring resident control will improve the redevelopment process itself, and simultaneously redirect the development goals towards which it channels its energy. One hopes that by shifting control of the redevelopment process, we also would shift the goals that redevelopment would pursue and the development forms it would take. Presumably, this would result in urban development designed to benefit residents of the urban core.

Arbitration Awards In Shaff V. Skahill, Jacob Frumkin

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

In Shaff v. SkahilP the District of Columbia Court of Appeals held that arbitrators' awards may only be reviewed if the moving party alleges a violation of the District of Columbia Uniform Arbitration Act.2 From a policy perspective, this decision may be read as subverting the very objective it purports to support encouraging the use of arbitration.3 In brief, this decision may discourage homeowners from agreeing to arbitrate disputes and appears to penalize those who do. Furthermore, this decision may be read as weakening the Home Improvement Business Act4 by providing a loophole for unlicensed and unbonded de facto contractors. …

A Home Of One's Own: The Fair Housing Amendments Act Of 1988 And Housing Discrimination Against People With Mental Disabilities, Arlene S. Kanter

American University Law Review

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