March 11, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Countercyclical Regulation and Its Challenges, by Patricia A. McCoy, Boston College Law School Legal Research Paper No. 351. Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Developments and Neighborhood Property Conditions, Kelly D. Edmiston, February 20, 2015. First Principles for Regulating the Sharing Economy, … Continue reading
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March 5, 2015
Housing and Vacancies in NYC
New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has released its initial findings of its 2014 Housing and Vacancy Survey. There are some interesting findings about the housing stock, particularly for those of us who follow the NYC … Continue reading
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March 4, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
American Dream in Flux: The Endangered Right to Lease a Home, by Andrea J. Boyack, Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, 2014. A Guide to New York State Commercial Landlord-Tenant Law and Procedure, by Gerald … Continue reading
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February 26, 2015
Tenants in Foreclosure
Judge Demarest issued a Decision and Order in 650 Brooklyn LLC v. Hunte et al. (No. 504623/2013 Feb. 5, 2015). The defendants moved for dismissal because the foreclosing plaintiff failed to comply with a relatively new NY statute that requires … Continue reading
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February 25, 2015
Housing Policy and Justice
John Infranca has posted Housing Resource Bundles:Distributive Justice and Federal Low-Income Housing Policy to SSRN. The abstract reads, Only one in four eligible households receives some form of rental assistance from the federal government. Nonetheless, there is no time limit … Continue reading
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February 11, 2015
Nation of Renters
NYU’s Furman Center and Capital One have produced an interesting graphic, Renting in America’s Largest Cities. The graphic highlights the growing trend of renting in urban communities, but also the increasing expense of doing so. The press release about this … Continue reading
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