Affordable Housing

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how the lack of affordable housing in the United States is a severe and growing crisis with no solution in sight. The paper determines the legal bounds of the zoning power given to governments and municipalities and provides an explanation of the law behind exclusionary and inclusionary practices. The paper examines the legal issues raised by these zoning ordinances. The paper also discusses the state of the current law as it applies to affordable housing and concludes with a discussion regarding the social and economic impacts raised by exclusionary and inclusionary zoning.

Outline:
Introduction
History of "Affordable Housing"
Background of Zoning Laws and Zoning Power
Exclusionary Housing
Inclusionary Housing
Legal Issues Raised by Zoning
Economic and Social Implications of Exclusionary and Inclusionary Housing
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"In the past few decades, the lack of affordable housing in the United States has emerged as a crisis effecting low-income residents, government agencies and municipalities, and real estate developers alike. The lack of available affordable housing has increased in the past few years, as a result of zoning ordinances and governmental zoning powers that are supported and upheld by the courts. While there are no immediate solutions to this problem, a number of legal scholars have examined the relevant cases and have written extensively on the subject."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Jennifer Morgan, Zoning for All: Using Exclusionary Zoning Techniques to Promote Affordable Housing. 44 Emory L.J. 359, 395 (1995).
• Marc Seitles. The Perpetuation of Residential Racial Segregation in America: Historical Discrimination, Modern Forms of Exclusion, and Inclusionary Remedies. 14 J. Land Use & Envl Law 89, 91 (1998). In Southern cities of the United States, African American servants and laborers lived side by side with their white employers, and in northern urban areas, African Americans were more likely to share a neighborhood with whites than to live in racially segregated communities.
• Laura Padilla. Reflections of Inclusionary Housing and a Renewed Look at its Viability. 23 Hofstra L. Rev. 539, 547 (1995).
• Barbara Ehrlich Kautz, In Defense of Inclusionary Zoning: Successfully creating Affordable Housing, 36 U.S.F. L.Rev. 971, 982-983 (2002).
• Brian Lerman, Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning: The Answer to the Affordable Housing Problem, 33 B.C. Envtl. Aff, L.Rev. 383, 386 (2006).

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