April 14, 2016
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Roundup
A new report, The Community Listening Project, finds that in Washington D.C., one of the most dominant stressors for low-income residents is finding and maintaining affordable housing. The National Alliance to End Homelessness released is 2016 State of Homelessness in … Continue reading
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April 13, 2016
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
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 … Continue reading
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April 12, 2016
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 … Continue reading
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April 11, 2016
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) … Continue reading
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April 8, 2016
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 … Continue reading
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April 7, 2016
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 … Continue reading
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April 6, 2016
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. … Continue reading
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