- Governing the Single-Family House: A (Brief) Legal History, Priya S. Gupta, University of Hawaii Law Review, Vol. 37, 2015, p. 187.
- Fracking the Unconventional Energy Response to Climate Change: Implications for the Real Estate Industry, Celeste M. Hammond.
- Why are Aggressive Mortgage Products Bad for the Housing Market?, Andrew Davidson, Alex Levin, Andrey D. Pavlov & Susan M. Wachter.
- Neighborhood Externalities, Rental Regulation, and Property Values, Jin-Hyuk Kim, Tin Cheuk Leung & Liad Wagman.
- Because of Winn-Dixie: The Common Law of Exclusive Use Covenants, Tanya D. Marsh, University of Miami Law Review, Vol. 69, No. 4, 2015.
- The American Dream, Deferred: Contextualizing Property after the Foreclosure Crisis, Priya S. Gupta, Maryland Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 2 (2013-2014) 523.
- The Value of the Right to Exclude: An Empirical Assessment, Jonathan Klick & Gideon Parchomovsky, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 165, Forthcoming; U of Penn, Inst. for Law & Econ. Research Paper No. 16-8.
- The Vested Rights Doctrine: How a Shiled Against Injustice Became a Sword for Opportunistic Developers, Steve Calandrillo, Chryssa V. Deliganis & Christina Elles, Ohio State Law Journal, Forthcoming; University of Washington School of Law Research Paper No. 2016-06.
- Aging in Place: Analyzing the Use of Reverse Mortgages to Preserve Independent Living Summary Report of Survey Results, Stephanie Moulton et al.
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Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
- The S. Department of Housing & Urban Development released guidance on discrimination against tenants with criminal records, aimed at helping protect those individuals from such discrimination.
- The S. Department of Housing & Urban Development released additional fair housing tools for local governments and public housing agencies after the release of an assessment tool for states and insular areas.
- The New York City Council passed two affordable housing plans, Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability, in hopes of preserving affordable housing by reducing barriers and obtaining resources from the private market.
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
- Two foreign investors brought suit against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services claiming that its rule requiring EB-5 applicants to secure their loans by certain assets is arbitrary and capricious.
- A New York judge held that U.S. Bank’s (as trustee) suit against Credit Suisse was brought within the statute of limitations. The suit sought to make Credit Suisse buy back more than $1 billion in toxic mortgage loans used to back securities by the trust.
- A New York federal judge signed off on $1.2 billion settlement from Wells Fargo for defrauding the Federal Housing Administration by submitting insurance claims for defaulted loans that didn’t meet the FHA’s standards.
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released an updated report looking at 13 housing, health and social services block grant programs finding that the median funding from each program’s inception has decreased by a quarter.
- The Labor Department’s most recent labor report found that 215,000 jobs were created in March.
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Roundup
- The Brookings Institution released a report finding that concentrated poverty has increased since the Great Recession across the United States, from 5.2 million to 14 million living in extremely poor neighborhoods.
- The National Housing Conference and Children’s HealthWatch released a report finding that homelessness and unstable housing can harm infants and young children.
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
- Social Networks and Housing Markets, Michael Bailey, Ruiqing Cao, Theresa Kuchler & Johannes Stroebel.
- Externalities of Public Housing: The Effect of Public Housing Demolitions on Local Crime, Danielle H. Sandler, US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP-16-16.
- Housing Market Effects of Appraising Below Contract, Hamilton B. Fout & Vincent W. Yao.
- Distributional Implications of Government Guarantees in Mortgage Markets, Pedro Gete & Franco Zecchetto.
- Is California More Energy Efficient than the Rest of the Nation? Evidence from Commercial Real Estate, Matthew E. Kahn, Nils Kok & Peng Liu, USC-INET Research Paper No. 16-08.
- Housing, Housing Policy, and Housing Finance: Time for a Re-Assessment, Lawrence J. White, Milken Institute Review, Forthcoming.
- Green Marketing: A Study of Consumer Purchase Behaviour for Green Homes, Chitral Patel & Pawan K. Chugan, New Age Ecosystem for Empowering Trade, Industry and Society, Eds., Pawan K. Chugan, Deepak Srivastava, Nikunj Patel and Nirmal C. Soni, Excel India Publishers, New Delhi, for Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad India. Jan. 2016, ISBN: 978-93-85777-08-0, pp. 254-268.
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
- Mayor Martin Walsh of Boston announced $28 million in funding for the creation maintenance and preservation of affordable housing in Boston.
- Governor Cuomo signed $15 minimum-wage law and 12-week paid family leave policy into law this week.
