Real Estate & Property Law

National Rental Affordability Scheme
The Prime Minister has announced the National Rental Affordability Scheme which is designed to create a new ?asset class? of affordable rental properties. Under the Scheme, the Commonwealth will provide private investors with tax credits of $6,000 a year for...

Back to school
This semester I am taking:Trusts and Estates (3 credits)Constitutional law (3 credits)Equal Employment Law (4 credits)Bankruptcy Law (3 credits)I also haveLaw Review (2 credits)A clinic (3 credits)Doing the math, that's 18 credits...

Renovating older NYC housing "Bring your paintbrush - and lawyer"
New EPA lead-abatement regulations will complicate the lives of many brownstone and co-op owners, as well as building managers and landlords in rental housing. Harold Shultz of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council explains at Law and More, with link...

OCC Publishes Report on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has published Low-Income Housing Tax Credits: Affordable Housing Investment Opportunities for Banks. Here is the abstract: Over the past two decades, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has addressed the nation?s...

Obama's Revenge of the Nerds
For those of you who care about housing policy -- I teach land-use regulation -- Obama's choice of Shaun Donovan as Secretary of HUD is wonderful news. Donovan is Bloomberg's head of Housing Preservation & Development and has won widespread praise for his efforts to increase New York's housing supply...

Desai, Dharmapala & Singhal: Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
Mihir A. Desai (Harvard Business School), Dhammika Dharmapala (UConn, Department of Economics) & Monica Singhal (Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government) have posted Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit on SSRN...

Mass. Sup. Court Upholds Agency Rule Regarding Timing for Compliance with Minimum Requirement for Affordable Housing
Canton Property Holding submitted a comprehensive permit application to the Town of Canton for a project to consist of two developments: one consisting of 196 units of rental housing, and a subdivision containing 24 single family homes, one two-family plan, and three duplexes...

Fair Housing Act
Prevent discrimination by landlords

Facebook / Blockbuster
alleging that Facebook distributed your Blockbuster movie rental information without your knowledge or consent.

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

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

Disability Access
Developers pay $175,000 settlement for failing to comply with the Fair Housing Act.

Housing Inmates
City of Renton pays Yakima County $1.7 million settlement.

Housing Buyer Discrimination
White homeowner settles $30,000 buyer-discrimination lawsuit.