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A Lawyer's Blog
TENANT BACKGROUND CHECKS
"WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today (November 15, 2022), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued two reports on the tenant background check industry. The reports describe how errors in these background…
Property Legal Insider
New legislation published to provide for winter moratorium on residential tenancy terminations
By Aoife Smyth
The Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022 has been published today. This is the draft legislation intended to give effect to the temporary moratorium on residential tenancy…
Environmental and Climate
2022’s New State Housing Laws
This week Governor Newsom signed a series of bills intended to accelerate housing development in California. Two bills – AB 2011 and SB 6 – seek to facilitate residential redevelopment…
Land Use Prof Blog
Idaho Law hiring for a tenure-track Housing Clinic position
Hi,The University of Idaho College of Law is hiring for a tenure-track Housing Law Clinic professor, which would be located in Boise. I am happy to discuss with folks, in…
Land Use Prof Blog
Job Posting – Fellow in Urban Design and Housing – Yale Urban Design Workshop
JOB ANNOUNCEMENTFellow in Urban Design and HousingYale Urban Design WorkshopNote: For immediate hirePosted July 29, 2022Yale School of Architecture seeks applications for a Fellow in Urban Design and Housing at…
China Law Insight
房屋查封与租赁的法律问题探究
By King & Wood
作者：孙亮 郝朝晖 张炎 金怿菲 民事诉讼中，不动产查封是指债权人为保证其债权的实现而向法院申请的暂时性限制或剥夺被执行人对不动产的处分权，以保证债权人合理债权得以实现。 通常，房屋被查封后，房屋所有权人将无法转移其所有权，也不能在房屋上设定担保物权。那么查封又会对在先设立的租赁合同效力及其履行产生何种影响？租赁权能否排除法院的强制执行？查封后是否还能将房屋进行出租？我们对其中所涉的相关法律问题进行分析，供各位参考。 阅读更多
The Right Coast
San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California Home Sales Crater, Prices Begin to Drop. California Pending Sales Collapse 40% | Wolf Street
Pending sales in California plunged by 40.6% in June from a year ago, according to the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.). Listings that went pending in June are expected to…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Multi-Generational Housing Article
By rmorgan
Last week the Wt featured an article about an elder taking on a college student as her roommate. One roommate is 85, the other is 27. Such arrangements are growing. For…
The Right Coast
“We Could See A Million Layoffs Or More” – Here Comes The Job Market Shock | ZeroHedge
Last weekend we showed something remarkable (or delightful, if one is a stock bull): with the US economy on the verge of recession, with inflation topping, with the housing market…
Land Use Prof Blog
Prospects for a Unified Approach to Housing Affordability, Housing Equity, and Climate Change
I just posted on SSRN an article I wrote for the Vermont Law Review, which might be of interest to some of you. The article is "Prospects for a Unified…