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Housing
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Land Use Prof Blog
Accessory housing, as a first step to greater density …
So, you like "in theory" the idea of greater density of American housing development, but you're not exactly ready to buy into the extreme notion of abandoning the suburban…
Land Use Prof Blog
Rentals, immigrants, and Farmers Branch, Texas …
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction this week against a Texas city ordinance that made it unlawful to rent housing to illegal immigrants. The court decision probably will…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Preliminary Injunction Entered Barring Farmers Branch Immigration Ordinance From Going Into Effect
The Bickel & Brewer Storefront, on behalf of several apartment owners and managers, today obtained an injunction in federal court against Ordinance 2903 – the so-called "illegal immigration ordinance" in…
Land Use Prof Blog
Why a “super-commute”?
What forces push people to super-commutes -- daily auto commutes of two hours or more -- a category that seems to be on the rise, despite gas pressures and…
Land Use Prof Blog
Rent control and housing stability …
What’s the effect of rent control laws? In post-Reagan America, the most common response might be: It constricts the supply the low-cost housing and causes a deterioration in the…
Land Use Prof Blog
Three to a house?
While the middle-class-oriented media howls over the housing "slump," the flattening of prices might help one contentious problem -- the crowding of many families, usually immigrants, into a…
Land Use Prof Blog
So why do we allow 55-plus communities, anyway?
Why does American law allow housing discrimination against younger (under 55) people? This is a follow up to Friday's post. Law does not allow a housing development to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Impact of the Housing Slump on Undocumented Immigrant Construction Workers
Eduardo Porter has an interesting article in the N.Y. Times (here) today about how the housing slump has affected undocumented immigrant workers in the construction industry. It mentioned just how…
ImmigrationProf Blog
“I never expected to see this in America.”
For a report (with photos) on the squalid conditions in a trailer park populated by Latino workers in the Coachella Valley (Southern California), click here. According to the LA Times,…
Land Use Prof Blog
Renting — the new “American Dream”?
One of the sidebars of the great 1995-2006 housing price boom is that rental units also experienced a sharp increase in costs. According to a stat-filled article in Apartment…