My scholarship focuses on housing theory, affordable housing development, and fair housing.
Articles
Towards Engaged Scholarship, Pace Law Review (2013)
In response to widespread criticism of legal education and profound changes in the legal services...
Moving Beyond Two-Person-Per-Bedroom: Revitalizing Application of the Federal Fair Housing Act to Private Residential Occupancy Standards, Georgia State University Law Review (forthcoming) (2012)
Moving Beyond the Two-Person-Per-Bedroom Standard: Revitalizing Application of the Federal Fair Housing Act to Private...
Our Pluralist Housing Ethics and the Struggle for Affordability, Wake Forest Law Review (2007)
Building on recent scholarship, this Article explores the five “housing ethics” that have historically shaped...
Clarifying the Federal Fair Housing Act's Exemption for Reasonable Occupancy Restrictions, Fordham Urban law Journal (2004)
This article argues that a deceptively simple “exemption” to the 1988 Fair Housing Act Amendments...
Housing Impact Assessments: Opening New Doors for State Housing Regulation While Localism Persists, Oregon Law Review (2003)
America’s housing crisis is serious, pervasive and chronic. It burdens people of color and low-income...
Books
The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development (2011)
The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development covers the most important areas of law applicable...
Contributions to Books
State and Local Regulation of Particular Types of Affordable Housing, THE LEGAL GUIDE TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT (2nd edition) (2011)
This chapter will consider state and local regulation affecting the development of several types of...
Our Pluralist Housing Ethics and Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing, Forthcoming chapter in a series on Law, Society, & Property (2008)
While affordable housing has been produced through a variety of public-private partnerships (PPPs) for many...
Other Publications
Exclusionary Zoning Enforcement: Passe or Alive and Kicking? (2012)
This newsletter article analyzes four recent exclusionary zoning cases in which courts ruled against the...
Fair Housing at 30: Where We Are, Where We Are Going (with Susan Saylor) (2012)
California has long been a leader in anti-discrimination law including in housing. Thirty years after...
Housing Paradigms, International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home (2012)
This article introduces the housing paradigm perspective, a relatively new field of housing theory and...
The 30% Rule (2011)
This newsletter article introduces “The 30% Rule,” a teaching technique created by the author to...
Unpublished Papers
Starting with the Questions, Not the Answers: Reunifying Property in the Classroom, ExpressO (2012)
This essay argues that the myriad property doctrines and rules are answers to several consistent...
Presentations
Housing 101, Bay Area Social Justice Forum (2012)
This presentation is a primer on how housing (particularly affordable housing) is developed and the...
Reflections on Fair Housing Law, CA State Bar Real Property Law Section, Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Subsection (2011)
This presentation offered reflections on the state of fair housing law in light of numerous...
FHAA & the Internet: The Prospects for Self-Regulation, CA State Bar Real Property Law Section, Fair Housing and Public Accommodation Subsection (2009)
This presentation argues that the internet offers both great promise and possible peril for anti-discrimination...