Real Estate & Property Law

Citys New Plan on Affordable Housing: Build Less, Preserve More
"The revamped New Housing Marketplace Plan, as the initiative is called, will now cost $8.5 billion to create or preserve 165,000 affordable homes by 2014, city officials said. Most of the extra funds will come from the city?s Housing Development Corporation, which issues bonds for the housing...

Taking Control Over Housing Wait Lists In Britain
"This is part of an extra £1.5 billion in the Housing Pledge Mr Healey made in June to build an additional 20,000 much needed affordable homes. As well as getting councils building homes again, this power of Government investment is getting housebuilding work restarted on stalled sites during the recession, and helping Housing Associations build more affordable homes ? creating 45,000 extra jobs and nearly 3000 new apprenticeships in the industry...

Affordable Housing in the News
From the Philadelphia Inquirer: Saying new affordable-housing obligations would force suburban towns to build beyond their capacity, a coalition of nearly 200 mayors said yesterday they would challenge the regulations in court...

Affordable housing is not affordable
It seems that 'affordable housing', a term much bandied about nowadays, is actually not really affordable at all. Generally the phrase is taken to mean that the property is available at below full market cost or rent...

Using Land Use Law to Meet the Affordable Housing Needs of Low-Income Seniors
Below is an excerpt from the introduction of new article on affordable housing for low income seniors.     With the rapid increase in the senior population due to the aging of the baby boomers, communities can no longer rely on federal and state government programs to deliver the necessary affordable housing stock to meet demands...

MA Supreme Court Holds Town Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies in Challenging State Affordable Housing Inventory
The State of Massachusetts enacted ?The Comprehensive Permit Act? (G.L. c. 40B) for the purpose of ensuring a supply of affordable housing by requiring, among other things, that each municipality devote ten percent of its housing units to low or moderate income housing...

Fair Housing Act
Prevent discrimination by landlords

Traditional and Roth 401Ks
Selecting the right Retirement Plan

H&R Block Retirement Plan Fraud
How to Join Class Action Suit

Pre-paid Leagal Services
What are Prepaid Legal Benefit Plans

US Government
alleging land surveyors should not be allowed on private property to build a US Mexican border wall.

KB Home and Countrywide Financial Corp.
allegedly conspired with appraisers to boost housing prices as the market crashed.

Nortel
faces class action over changes to employee pension plan

Yellow Freight Pension Plan
alleging ERISA violations

Health Plan Boycott
Connecticut chiropractic groups to pay $87,000 fine in civil suit.

Apartment Appointment
Pine Properties Inc. pays $158,000 housing discrimination settlement.