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When the Feds Step Back on Fair Housing, Can States Step Up?
It's not new for states and localities to have their own fair housing and community reinvestment measures—but as the federal government backs away from enforcement, their versions may become more important.
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New York State’s Affordable Housing Developers: What They Do, How They Do It
In the first part of our series, we ask affordable housing developers in NYC how they deal with community opposition and how they overcome it.
Justice in Delaware, Revisited
The following is an update to a 2012 Rooflines piece by Van Temple about the struggle of a mobile home community evicted from its grounds. Temple's piece ends in hard-won […]
Will Newly Residential Downtowns Become Luxury Enclaves?
I was traveling a lot this fall, as usual. Back in September, I attended a pre-conference strategizing session on inclusionary housing at the National Housing Conference's Solutions 2013 event in […]
Little Rock Residents Fight Displacement, Win Big
What happens when neighborhoods come together to fight displacement from a powerful and seemingly unstoppable political force? They win. Residents in the predominantly African-American neighborhoods of Central Little Rock were […]
Report: The LIHTC Program Kept Neighborhoods Segregated
A report recently released by the Fair Housing Justice Center (FHJC), a New York-based civil rights organization, suggests that the government has put in place mechanisms that confine minorities to […]
Supreme Court Set To Rule on Disparate Impact, Fair Housing
The potential success of recent HUD rule changes regarding “affirmatively further fair housing” rest quite substantially on how municipalities can or will choose to pursue violations of the Fair Housing […]
HUD’s New AFFH Rule: Will It Work?
Recently, HUD announced that it is changing how municipalities will be required to demonstrate that they are complying with the Fair Housing Act. Coming on the heels of the ruling […]
Fair Treatment of Homeseekers Improves, But Still Needs Work
A realtor should never be instrumental in introducing into a neighborhood a character of property or occupancy, members of any race or nationality or any individual whose presence will clearly […]
NJ Court Blocks the State From Taking Municipal Affordable Housing Funds
I was a reporter covering Bergen County, New Jersey, in May 2012 when municipalities in the state were told by the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) that they would either […]
The Fair Housing Act at 45: A Time for Celebration and Action
April is fair housing month and, this year, it’s also the 45th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act. Adopted in the wake of the assassination of Dr. […]
Former Foes Join to Defend NJ’s Housing Trust Funds
Injustice can create unlikely collaborators. In early 2012, New Jersey’s Governor Christie set out to cover state budget gaps with funds that were in held in trust by municipalities solely […]
Now File Fair Housing Complaints on the Go
There's an app for fair housing now. That's right. HUD has released an app that allows you (or your clients) to file a Fair Housing Act complaint from a mobile […]