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Housing
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PropertyProf Blog
Schwemm on Landlord Discrimination
By propertyprof
Robert G. Schwemm (University of Kentucky) has posted Why Do Landlord Still Discriminate (and What Can Be Done About it)? on SSRN. Here's the abstract:This Article deals with the problem…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Treasury Places Freddie and Fannie in Conservatorships to Support the Housing Market
Treasury Secretary Paulson announced on Sunday that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are being placed in conservatorships. According to the press statement this action is necessary "to protect the financial…
ImmigrationProf Blog
A housing victory for immigrants in Dallas
A federal judge has issued a final judgment banningenforcement of a Dallas suburb's rule prohibiting apartment rentals toillegal immigrants. For the full story, click here.ra
Land Use Prof Blog
Sprucing up foreclosure lanes …
While Congress is busy mortgaging the nation’s financial future to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, local governments are busy with more urgent efforts to ameliorate the social harms…
Land Use Prof Blog
Good results from the “housing first” approach to homelessness …
Surprisingly news from HUD this week is that the number of chronically homeless people fell dramatically from 2005 to 2007, according to the agency. Analysts attribute the…
Land Use Prof Blog
Birds of a feather … buy houses together? …
In the 1950s, economist Charles Tiebout argued that people can choose where to live based on government. Citizens can choose, for example, whether to live a town that is…
Land Use Prof Blog
A toilet tale .. and its meaning …
Here’s a story that crystallizes the challenges of American urban public land use policy: Seattle is junking its public toilet system. Four years ago, the high-tech-savvy city ballyhooed the…
Employment Law Watch
House of Lords reforms approach to disability-related discrimination cases
By Ruth Bonino
In the case of Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm, the House of Lords has made potentially major changes to the law on disability-related…
Land Use Prof Blog
A depressing story about social integration … and crime …
In this space and elsewhere, I have written about the success and promise of better-low cost housing and better social understanding offered by the federal “section 8” voucher program…
Land Use Prof Blog
Infill in a venerable old city …
Infill in a western city might mean building a garden apartment complex on land formerly used as a parking lot of the edge of downtown; infill in an established…