Protecting Mobile Homes as Affordable Housing
The article argues that rent control, despite its shortcomings, may be an essential tool to protect mobile homes market against the effects of real estate interest.
Public Land for Public Good: How Community Groups Are Influencing the Disposition of Public Land to Help Address the Affordable Housing Crisis
The piece highlights local campaigns that have attempted to influence the use or sale of land owned by public entities such as cities or transit agencies.
Living Poor in the Affluent City
Focusing on gentrification as a force for displacement, the author reflects on themes of the essays in this series, organizing them under the topics of causes, consequences, and solutions.
Local Control of Land and Water Resources: Rethinking California’s Eminent Domain Standard
The article considers ramifications of the 2018 condemnation action by County of Inyo seeking approval of the acquisition by eminent domain of three landfills located in Owens Valley of California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains.
We Shall Not Be Moved: Practitioners' Perspectives on Law and Organizing in Response to California's Housing Crisis
This article analyzes the legal and organizing work of the Los Angeles Center for Community Law and Action.
The Venue Shuffle: Forum Selection Clauses and ERISA
Forum selection clauses are ubiquitous. Historically, the judiciary was hostile to contracts limiting a plaintiff’s venue options. The tide has since turned. Today, lower courts routinely enforce such clauses. This Article challenges this reflexive...