By Anna Aguilar and Sidney Lee In 1971, Congress tasked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with establishing procedures to “eliminate as far as practicable” the dangers of lead poisoning. Yet, HUD has repeatedly fallen short of accomplishing this. More than 50 years later, for children in federally assisted housing in the…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Here’s the latest news from housing law and equity, for the week of November 6-10, 2017: The Public Health Institute released a study that calculates the number of children with lead poisoning in the United States. A new law in Seattle will prevent landlords from screening…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Here’s the latest news from housing law and equity, from the week of August 21-28, 2017: Economists from the Federal Reserve of San Francisco show the enduring negative effects of redlining on communities of color, via the New York Times. The Atlanta Black Star published a…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Here’s the latest news in housing law and equity, for the week of August 15-21, 2017: The Urban Institute has released a new tool about using fair housing data. The report contains details on data sources related to demographics and segregation, housing, land use, disability, education,…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Here is our weekly round-up of developments from the world of housing law and health. For the week of August 7-14, 2017: HUD released its “Worst Case Housing Needs” report to Congress providing national data and analysis of the problems facing low-income renting families. CityLab offers…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Below is our weekly review of news and publications related to housing law and equity. This week — July 17-23, 2017 — included news about zoning, segregation and lead poisoning: Dr. Herbert L. Needleman died on July 18. Dr. Needleman was a pioneer in the study…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Affordable housing was the biggest topic of conversation last week, May 29-June 4. Here’s the week in review for housing equity and the law: Vox published an interactive tool with “Everything you need to know about the affordable housing debate.” It covers issues from “What is…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research We’re back this week with more news from the field of housing law and equity. Here’s the latest for the week of May 22-29, 2017: The Atlantic ran an investigative piece on one of the largest lead crises in the history of the US – New…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Lots of news from the past week in housing equity and law. Check out the latest in the field from the week of April 10-17, 2017: In his first television interview as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson talked about the rich’s obligation to…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research The HUD budget was the big story the last week of March in housing law and equity. Here’s the week in review for March 27-April 2: The largest story in housing is still the looming HUD budget cuts. The New York Times ran a story of…
