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Municipalities And The Increasing Need For Low And Moderate Income Housing Sep 1971

Municipalities And The Increasing Need For Low And Moderate Income Housing

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Impact Of Housing Inspectional Services On Housing Maintenance In The City Of Boston: A Preliminary Evaluation, Boston Urban Observatory, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jul 1971

The Impact Of Housing Inspectional Services On Housing Maintenance In The City Of Boston: A Preliminary Evaluation, Boston Urban Observatory, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Boston Urban Observatory Publications

This study is a preliminary evaluation of the relative impacts of various City policies and programs related to the enforcement of housing codes and to the maintenance and upgrading of the existing supply of housing. It analyzes code enforcement functions at both the level of central administration and field procedures. City departments covered by the study include Housing Inspection (HID), Building, and the environmental unit of Health and Hospitals. Also reviewed are newer approaches to housing code enforcement, including civil remedies and federally-assisted concentrated code enforcement projects.

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Judicial Attitudes Toward Multiple-Family Dwellings: A Reappraisal Mar 1971

Judicial Attitudes Toward Multiple-Family Dwellings: A Reappraisal

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Redrafting Municipal Housing Codes, Barlow Burke Jan 1971

Redrafting Municipal Housing Codes, Barlow Burke

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Compulsory Home Repair Laws, Maynard L. Graft Jr. Jan 1971

Compulsory Home Repair Laws, Maynard L. Graft Jr.

Cleveland State Law Review

In recent years legislative bodies at various levels of government have recognized the need for legally requiring the maintenance of housing at certain minimum standards. Such regulation has been deemed necessary because of the deterioration experienced by practically every major city in America. This deterioration causes a downward spiral usually resulting in complete blight in the deteriorating area. The first step toward blight is slight deterioration followed by neglect of repairs by owners and landlords (the latter neglect is an attempt to maintain a high return on investment, the former because of loss of faith in the quality of the …

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Real Estate Finance: The Discount Point System And Its Effect On Federally Insured Home Loans, Edwin T. Hood, James A. Kushner Jan 1971

Real Estate Finance: The Discount Point System And Its Effect On Federally Insured Home Loans, Edwin T. Hood, James A. Kushner

Faculty Works

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Credit Card Law, John Dalzell Apr 1970

Credit Card Law, John Dalzell

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Landlord And Tenant—Mitigation Of Damages—Landlord Must Plead And Prove Actual Efforts To Relet In Order To Recover Rent For The Balance Of The Term Of A Wrongfully Abandoning Tenant.—Vawter V. Mckissick, 159 N.W.2d 538 (Iowa 1968), Anon Mar 1970

Landlord And Tenant—Mitigation Of Damages—Landlord Must Plead And Prove Actual Efforts To Relet In Order To Recover Rent For The Balance Of The Term Of A Wrongfully Abandoning Tenant.—Vawter V. Mckissick, 159 N.W.2d 538 (Iowa 1968), Anon

Washington Law Review

Defendant-tenant notified plaintiff-landlord that he intended to vacate the space leased for his drugstore prior to the expiration of the lease term. He then removed most of his equipment and merchandise and surrendered the key. After the lease had expired, the landlord sued for the rent for the balance of the term. The landlord's sole apparent endeavor to relet after abandonment-placement of a window "for rent" sign-was revealed only on cross examination. Held: Unless a landlord pleads and proves efforts to relet wrongfully abandoned premises, he is not entitled to recover from a tenant the balance of rent due under …

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Zoning-Non-Conforming Use, 22 S.C. L. Rev. 844 (1970), Gerald E. Berendt Jan 1970

Zoning-Non-Conforming Use, 22 S.C. L. Rev. 844 (1970), Gerald E. Berendt

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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State Legislative Response To The Housing Crisis, Richard E. Streeter, David G. Davies, Arthur V. N. Brooks Jan 1970

State Legislative Response To The Housing Crisis, Richard E. Streeter, David G. Davies, Arthur V. N. Brooks

Cleveland State Law Review

Great public attention has recently been focused on the crisis in housing facing all major urban areas in this country. This article has been prepared to bring close attention to one segment of the hoped for solution-legislative action needed on the state level.

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Damages In Housing Discrimination Cases, James A. Ciocia Jan 1970

Damages In Housing Discrimination Cases, James A. Ciocia

Cleveland State Law Review

The existance of a shortage of adequate housing in the United States has further intensified the problems of those who suffer most when there is a shortage of anything-the minority groups. ... Contributing to the awareness of the public is the salient fact that within the last ten years there has been a consistent increase in the number of court cases dealing with housing discrimination. The scope of these cases has expanded from what had been a broad interpretation of public accommodation statutes to the award of damages, both compensatory and punitive, for private acts of discrimination which allegedly precipitated …

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Impact Of A Community Association On Integrated Suburban Housing Patterns, Stephen J. Alfred, Charles R. Marcoux Jan 1970

Impact Of A Community Association On Integrated Suburban Housing Patterns, Stephen J. Alfred, Charles R. Marcoux

Cleveland State Law Review

Community associations-neighbors who join together in recognition of common interests and sometimes in pursuit of greater political influence-appear and disappear with the ebb and flow of local issues. Home community organizations have concerned themselves with installation of improvements, such as sidewalks and sewers; others, with the quality of municipal services, property maintenance, and compliance with building and zoning laws. More recently, however, such community organizations have sprung into life for the purpose of dealing with the emotionally-charged issue of racial integration in their neighborhoods. This paper will explore the development of The Lomond Association, a community organization committed to a …

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Hidden Risks In Real Estate Title Transactions, Sherman Hollander Jan 1970

Hidden Risks In Real Estate Title Transactions, Sherman Hollander

Cleveland State Law Review

No amount of care can avoid certain of the title hazards which a real estate transaction may encounter. The most careful attorney can do little or nothing, in such situations, to sidestep the pitfalls. In at least some such cases the legislature could provide relief by reducing the risk to innocent parties. To do so requires perceptive review of some timehonored concepts. A number of types of other problems exist where a careful attorney may reduce the risk faced by his client. Even here perhaps the legislature could consider statutory improvements. It would be more fair and equitable if extraordinary …

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Effects Of Fair Housing Laws On Single Family Homes, Joseph C. Hunter Jan 1970

Effects Of Fair Housing Laws On Single Family Homes, Joseph C. Hunter

Cleveland State Law Review

In 1965 the 106th Ohio General Assembly passed Ohio's first fair housing law effective October 30, 1965. Doing so, the Ohio legislature extended the jurisdiction of the existing Ohio Civil Rights Commission to the field of housing. By excluding single and double owner-occupied residential dwellings, the 1965 law had a limited effect upon approximately fifty per cent of the housing in the state of Ohio. This paper will not deal with the unlawful practices involving lending institutions, restrictive covenants or blockbusting. Instead it will address itself to the administration of that portion of Chapter 4112 of the Ohio Revised Code …

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Effect Of Usury Laws On Home Ownership Needs, Richard S. Stoddart, Earl R. Hoover Jan 1970

Effect Of Usury Laws On Home Ownership Needs, Richard S. Stoddart, Earl R. Hoover

Cleveland State Law Review

In this paper we examine usury laws which thwart the thrift industry, particularly savings and loan associations, from entering fully into the needed home financing picture of the 1970's. If there is virtue in owning a home, be it a normal house, mobile home, condominium or a 99-year leasehold, (and the very basis of American life suggests that there is), and if the predicted housing boom is actually to occur, substantial changes should be made in laws which frustrate home financing.

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Urban Renewal In The Crucible Of Judicial Review, Henry Mcgee Jan 1970

Urban Renewal In The Crucible Of Judicial Review, Henry Mcgee

Faculty Articles

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.

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Memorandum In Support Of Plaintiffs' Motion For Preliminary Injunction, Southern Alameda Spanish Speaking Organization Dec 1969

Memorandum In Support Of Plaintiffs' Motion For Preliminary Injunction, Southern Alameda Spanish Speaking Organization

Other Cases

No abstract provided.

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Detroit Housing Code Enforcement And Community Renewal: A Study In Futility, Brett R. Dick, John S. Pfarr Jr. Dec 1969

Detroit Housing Code Enforcement And Community Renewal: A Study In Futility, Brett R. Dick, John S. Pfarr Jr.

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This article will demonstrate that the inconsistency is, to a large extent, more apparent than real and results from the application of two different conceptions of the purpose of the program to the same facts. Furthermore, it will be demonstrated that Detroit's Building (housing) Code has failed in its attempt to force rehabilitation of residential structures through Code enforcement. Although it can be made to work more efficiently, the Code will never serve as an effective solution to the housing problem.

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Order To Show Cause, United States District Court, Northern District Of Indiana Oct 1969

Order To Show Cause, United States District Court, Northern District Of Indiana

Other Cases

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Amended And Supplemental Complaint, Southern Alameda Spanish Speaking Organization Oct 1969

Amended And Supplemental Complaint, Southern Alameda Spanish Speaking Organization

Other Cases

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Special Project: Public Housing, Neil Cohen, John K. Johnson, Jr., Gary D. Lander, Finley L. Taylor, John G. Webb, Iii May 1969

Special Project: Public Housing, Neil Cohen, John K. Johnson, Jr., Gary D. Lander, Finley L. Taylor, John G. Webb, Iii

Vanderbilt Law Review

Despite the general prosperity of this country, a cursory survey of any American town or city will reveal that many Americans live in housing which is "substandard." Frequently one sees unpainted houses characterized by broken windows and inadequate sanitary facilities. In urban areas, the ever present tenement is often filled with too many people and not enough toilets; stairs are dangerous and refuse lies uncollected in the halls. Rooms without windows are common, while those blessed with windows frequently receive little light--the only view is another window of another building. Disease and discomfort are everywhere.These conditions, however, are neither new …

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Metropolitan Problems And Local Government Structure: An Examination Of Old And New Issues, Daniel R. Grant May 1969

Metropolitan Problems And Local Government Structure: An Examination Of Old And New Issues, Daniel R. Grant

Vanderbilt Law Review

At a time when our leading popular magazines are featuring cover headlines on "The Sick, Sick Cities," and articles on their"Battle for Survival" it seems appropriate to examine some old and new issues concerning the relationship of metropolitan problems to local government structure. The journalists who write such articles probably hear a great deal about the frustrating legal and political obstacles to achieving more rational forms of government for our exploding, strife-torn metropolitan areas. They probably do not hear, however, that political scientists are divided on such questions as the reality of "metropolitan-type" problems and the feasibility of area-wide metropolitan …

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Overcoming Barriers To Scattered-Site Low-Cost Housing, Darrel J. Grinstead Apr 1969

Overcoming Barriers To Scattered-Site Low-Cost Housing, Darrel J. Grinstead

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The effect of most zoning devices which have been used in suburban and non-ghetto city planning in the past few decades has been to erect substantial economic barriers around entire cities. These devices include minimum lot size requirements, density zoning, frontage requirements, single family restrictions, and minimum living space requirements. While such zoning practices may not be exclusionary in purpose, exclusion of minority groups has been the result. Moreover, since most minorities are heavily concentrated in low income groups, economic segregation will bring about a high degree of racial and ethnic segregation. Indeed, it has been suggested that these economic …

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Housing Codes, Building Demolition, And Just Compensation: A Rationale For The Exercise Of Public Powers Over Slum Housing, Daniel R. Mandelker Feb 1969

Housing Codes, Building Demolition, And Just Compensation: A Rationale For The Exercise Of Public Powers Over Slum Housing, Daniel R. Mandelker

Michigan Law Review

In programs of housing improvement and slum clearance, public agencies must often make difficult choices between the exercise of public powers of land acquisition, which require the payment of compensation, and public powers of noncompensatory regulation, which require no payment of compensation. This Article focuses on three of these programs-building demolition, urban renewal, and housing code enforcement. Public agencies may demolish slum dwellings, one at a time, without compensation. Title to the cleared site is not affected and remains in the owner after the building has been demolished. Under statutory powers of urban renewal, local public agencies may designate entire …

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Aesthetics And The Police Power, Robert J. Dicello Jan 1969

Aesthetics And The Police Power, Robert J. Dicello

Cleveland State Law Review

Under the Ohio Constitution municipalities have the authority to exercise all powers of local self-government. This authority is exercised through police power which is sufficient to support the enactment and enforcement of a wide variety of regulations which serve the public welfare. The police power, then, is the means whereby there is delegated by the state to the municipality effective power to promote and protect the general welfare. The purpose of any enforceable ordinance established under the police power must be directly related to the general welfare of the community wherein it operates.

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Housing Code Enforcement - A New Approach, Richard J. Marco, James P. Mancino Jan 1969

Housing Code Enforcement - A New Approach, Richard J. Marco, James P. Mancino

Cleveland State Law Review

Recognizing the national housing crises and the inadequate progress toward solutions through the utilization of either present code enforcement techniques or the ponderous urban renewal processes, new methods, techniques and approaches for the enforcement of housing code standards were sought.

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Tenant Unions: Legal Rights Of Members, Volodymyr O. Bazarko Jan 1969

Tenant Unions: Legal Rights Of Members, Volodymyr O. Bazarko

Cleveland State Law Review

Various articles have been written about the sociological aspects of tenant unions. This paper will consider, however, only the following tenant union problems: 1. the right of a tenant union to provide an attorney to represent its members in the litigation of personal causes against the landlord; 2. the right of a tenant union, acting as an entity, to bargain collectively with the landlord, sign a contract with him, and then enforce the contract; 3. the right of a tenant union to sue the landlord on behalf of its members.

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Persuader: Mobilization Of Support, Mary Ann Beattie Dec 1968

Persuader: Mobilization Of Support, Mary Ann Beattie

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Law reform can be achieved through precedent-setting case law and through legislation. Each is a time-consuming activity with its own stumbling blocks. To establish law through the case method, one must have a fact situation directly on point with the inequity which one is trying to remedy. In many situations the client must be willing to follow through a long process of trial and appeal, instead of settling for a more immediate but incomplete resolution of his problem. The costs of litigation may become an insurmountable problem. Another difficulty with the test case as a vehicle for law reform is …

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Landlord And Tenant--Leases--Lease Executed In Violation Of District Of Columbia Housing Regulations Is An Illegal Contract--Brown V. Southall Realty Co., Michigan Law Review Jun 1968

Landlord And Tenant--Leases--Lease Executed In Violation Of District Of Columbia Housing Regulations Is An Illegal Contract--Brown V. Southall Realty Co., Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff-landlord brought an action for possession based on nonpayment of rent in the Landlord-Tenant Branch of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions. Although the parties stipulated at trial that the rent was 230 dollars in arrears, defendant-tenant contended that the plaintiff was not entitled to possession because the lease was an illegal contract under the District of Columbia Housing Regulations. The trial court rejected this contention and gave judgment for plaintiff. By the time her appeal to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals was heard, the tenant had vacated the premises and no longer desired to contest …

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Michigan Landlord-Tenant Law: Course Of Statutory Reform Jan 1968

Michigan Landlord-Tenant Law: Course Of Statutory Reform

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Introduction to the Articles, Draftsman: Formulation of Policy, Persuader: Mobilization of Support, and Tenant's Attorney: Evaluation of Impact

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