National Housing Law Project Housing Justice Network

HJN 2004 MEETING SECTION

A. 2004 HJN Meeting Brochure and Registration Form

B. 2004 HJN Meeting Agenda

C. Workshop Descriptions and Materials

D. General Session Descriptions

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS AND MATERIALS

Workshop 1-A: Litigating HUD Preservation Cases

1. Workshop 1-A Overview

Workshop 1-B: Issues in Housing and Disability Litigation

1. Workshop 1-B Overview
2. Model 504 Part 9 complaint
3. HUD’s announcement of elderly/disabled multifamily inventory

Workshop 1-C: Wait a Minute:
Slowing Down Criminal Activity Eviction Cases to Find the Truth

1. Workshop 1-C Overview
2. Wait A Minute: Slowing Down Criminal Activity Eviction Cases to Find the Truth
3. Eviction Answer Form: Public Housing
4. Eviction Answer Form: Vouchers
5. Eviction Answer Form: HUD-subsidized projects
6. Eviction Answer Form: RHCDS projects

Workshop 2-A: Local/State Preservation Tools and the Preemption Challenge

1. Workshop 2-A Overview
2. LIHPRHA preemption statute 12 U.S.C. Sec. 4122
3. Chart of state and local ordinances, statutes and initiatives

Workshop 2-B: Planning and Resources to House People with Disabilities

1. Workshop 2-B Overview
2. San Francisco’s A.I.: Barriers and Recommended Solutions for Disability Issues

Workshop 2-C: Rent Issues in Public Housing: Verification, Calculation, EID

1. Workshop 2-C Overview
2. Effect of Utility Allowances on Section 8 Voucher Participants
3. Memo re: Rent Simplification (Catherine Bishop, 2/04)
4. Memo re: HUD/Congress change in public and subsidized housing rents (Mac McCreight, GBLS, 3/3/04; rev 4/6/04 by NHLP)
5. HUD Notice PIH 2004-1 (3/9/04): “Verification Guidance” and attachment, available at www.hudclips.org.
6. HUD Notice PIH 2003-34 (HA) (12/19/03): “Rental Integrity Monitoring (RIM) Disallowed Costs and Sanctions Under the Rental Housing Integrity Improvement Program (RIIP) Initiative”, available at www.hudclips.org
7. HUD Notice PIH 2004-11 (7/15/04): “Income calculation regarding Medicare Prescription Drug Cards and Transitional Assistance”, available at www.hudclips.org.

Workshop 3-A: Strategies for Preserving and Improving
Troubled HUD Subsidized Multifamily Properties

1. Workshop 3-A Overview
2. Troubled HUD Multifamily Properties
3. HUD Troubled Projects flow chart
4. East Canton (Boston) Tenants’ Letter to HUD re Foreclosure
5. Roman v. Jackson – Proposed Stipulation re Opt-out

Workshop 3-B: Section 1983 and Implied Right of Action Claims Post-Gonzaga

1. Workshop 3-B Overview PDF
2. “Private Enforcement of the Medicaid Act Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983” by Jane Perkins PDF
3. List of internet resources PDF
4. “Enforcing Federal Rights Through 1331/Supremacy Clause Jurisdiction,” by H. Semmel: www.nclc.org/federalrights/1331article102102.htm.)
5. Federal Rights page of the National Senior Citizens Law Center’s website: www.nsclc.org/issues_justice_federal.html

Workshop 3-C: Environmental Justice for Housing Lawyers

1. Workshop 3-C Overview
2. Environmental Justice for Housing Lawyers
3. O. Pomar & L. Cole, “Camden, New Jersey, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice”, Clearinghouse Review, May-June 2002 at 94: http://www.povertylaw.org/legalresearch/articles/index.cfm

Cases

1. Alexander v. Sandoval, 532 U.S. 275 (2001) (No private right of action to enforce disparate impact regulations issued pursuant to Title VI.) Available at http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-1908.ZS.html
2. Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., 429 U.S. 252, 265-66 (1977). (Standard for proving intentional discrimination under Title VI and Equal Protection Clause.)
3. Cureton v. Nat’l Collegiate Athletic Ass’n., 198 F.3 107, 115 (3d. Cir. 1999) (Title VI applies to all activities of a federally funded recipient, even those activities not funded with federal dollars.)
4. Lucero v. Detroit Public Schools, 160 F.Supp.2d 767, 783-84 (E.D. Mich. S.D. 2001) (Disparate impact regulations enforceable through Section 1983 but court declined to issue preliminary injunction finding no disparate impact where school for predominantly non-white students was sited on former industrial site contaminated with hazardous substances.) Subsequent decision denying motion to dismiss race discrimination counts located at http://www.sugarlaw.org/info/BeardSchoolOpinionSept03.pdf
5. South Camden Citizens In Action v. N.J. Dept. of Environmental Protection, 145 F. Supp. 2d. 505 (D.N.J. 2001), rev’d, 274 F.3d, 771 (3d. Cir. 2001) cert. denied, 536 U.S. 939 (2002); further proceedings at 254 F.Supp. 2d 486 (D.N.J. 2003) (Disparate impact regulations not enforceable through Section 1983; plaintiffs’ claims of intentional discrimination survive motion to dismiss.)
6. Lead Committee, Inc., et al. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, et al., Civil Action No. 298-CV-421 (E.D. Va. 1998) (Consent decree requiring relocation of all 160 families living in the Washington Park Public Housing Project in Portsmouth, Virginia, which was declared a Superfund site, to integrated housing opportunities.) Consent decree available at http://www.lawyerscomm.org/projects/consentdecree.pdf.
7. Hartford Park Tenants Ass'n v. Rhode Island Environmental Management, C.A. 99-3748 (R.I. Super. Ct. filed Aug. 1999) [Clearinghouse Number 52,717] (Challenge to siting of two public schools on top of former city dump—awaiting decision of trial court.)

Statutes and other legal authority

1. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 USC §2000d: http://www.epa.gov/civilrights/docs/42usc2000d.pdf
2. EPA Regulations Implementing Title VI, 40 CFR Part 7: http://www.epa.gov/civilrights/docs/40p0007.pdf
3. Executive Order 12898: http://www.ejnet.org/ej/execorder.html
4. Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992—Title X: http://www.epa.gov/lead/titleten.html
5. Lead Paint Disclosure Regulations, 24 CFR §35; 40 CFR §745: http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/lead/fr06mr96.pdf

Online resources

1. EPA web page on environmental justice policies and guidance: http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/policies/ej/index.html
2. EPA Toolkit for assessing potential allegations of environmental justice: http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/publications/ej/ej_toolkit.pdf
3. Environmental Justice For All: A Fifty-State Survey of Legislation, Policies, and Initiatives: www.abanet.org/irr/committees/environmental/statestudy.pdf
4. Mapping tool to find environmental hazards in your community: http://www.scorecard.org and also at http://www.epa.gov/enviro/ej
5. Alliance For Healthy Homes information on environmental justice and housing:
   http:///www.afhh.org/comm_ar/comm_ar_impacts_on_comm.htm
   http://www.afhh.org/comm_ar/comm_ar_env_just.htm
   http://www.afhh.org/chil_ar/chil_ar_disparities.htm
   http://www.afhh.org/comm_ar/comm_ar_community_based_solutions.htm
6. Environmental Poverty Law Center, Legal Aid of North Carolina: http://www.legalaidnc.org/eplp/ (this page works only with Internet Explorer)
7. Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark University: http://www.ejrc.cau.edu

Workshop 4-A: Prepayment of RHS Section 515 Projects:
Legal Issues and Strategies for Preserving Affordable Rural Rental Housing

1. Workshop 4-A Overview
2. Legal Issues and Strategies Overview
3. Pre-1989 MFH by County
4. Web link for MFH properties

Workshop 4-B: Gender Discrimination and Housing

1. Workshop 4-B Overview
2. ACLU Fact Sheet: Domestic Violence and Homelessness
3. ACLU Fact Sheet: Housing Discrimination and Domestic Violence
4. Model demand letter eviction case (Michigan)
5. Model TRO/PI brief eviction case (Michigan)
6. Model complaint eviction case (Alvera)
7. Model complaint admission case (Washington state)
8. Model letter to PHA re: New HUD Chapter
9. "Doubly Victimized: Housing Discrimination Against Victims of Domestic Violence," by Lenora Lapidus (Journal of Gender, Social Policy & Law 377 (2003))
10. Memo on sexual harassment in housing, by Ed Johnson
11. Finding of Cause (Alvera)
12. Washington County 2004 Fair Housing Plan identifying discrimination against victims of domestic violence as an impediment to fair housing
13. HUD chapter on domestic volence (Chapter 19; starts on page 224 of the online pdf document). Available at www.nhlp.org/html/pubhsg/phguidebook.pdf.

Workshop 4-C: Testing For Change: Environmental Testing as an
Organizing and Advocacy Tool for Healthy Housing

1. Workshop 4-C Overview PDF
2. Community Environmental Health Resource Center website: www.cehrc.org
3. “Politics of Poison,” Pratt Area Community Council Report, June 2003: www.prattarea.org/leadpaint.pdf
4. “Research By Teens Finds High Lead Levels; Some Critical of Study,” Channel 7 (WABC-TV) News Report, June 9, 2003. Available at http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_060903_lead.html
5. HUD Office of Healthy Housing and Lead Hazard Control website: www.hud.gov/offices/lead

Workshop 4-D: Loss of Public Housing

1. Workshop 4-D Overview
2. Loss of Public Housing Units: Outline of Available Tools for Advocates, by Hong Tran
3. Memo to Michael Kelly, Executive Director of the D.C. Housing Authority, from Bernard L. Tetreault (rev. August 11, 2004), re: Parameters for Future Redevelopment Activities
4. What Next For Distressed Public Housing? by Margery Austin Turner, G. Thomas Kingsley, Susan J. Popkin, Martin D. Abravanel (Urban Institute, June 1, 2004)
5. FalseHOPE: A Critical Assessment of the HOPE VI Public Housing Redevelopment Program. Available at www.nhlp.org/html/pubhsg/FalseHOPE.pdf

Workshop 5-A: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit

1. Workshop 5-A Overview
2. LIHTC Program Overview and excerpt of Rev. Rul. 2004-82
3. Memo to IRS from Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (March 2004) re: Comments on Draft Guide for Completing Form 8823 (LIHTC Report of Noncompliance), Chapter 11

Workshop 5-B: Best Practices, Enforcement of Rights, and
Housing Advocacy Issues for Limited English Proficiency Clients

1. Workshop 5-B Overview

Workshop 5-C: Taking Control—
Our Communities, Our Neighborhoods, Our Homes, Our Families, Our Lives—
PHA Planning, Resident Participation and Community Service Requirements

1. Workshop 5-C Overview
2. Fact Sheet: The Annual Plan Process
3. Fact Sheet: What is the $25 Resident Participation Fee?
4. Fact Sheet: The Community Service Policy

Workshop 6-A: Legislative and Administrative Update

1. Workshop 6-A Overview
2. HUD FY2005 Budget Chart for Selected Programs, by the National Low Income Housing Coalition
3. Letter from bipartisan San Diego Congressional delegation to HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson (May 18, 2004)
4. Memo from NHLP re: Effect of FY2005 funding cuts for public housing as proposed by House Appropriations Committee (August 20, 2004)
5. Information on NLIHC’s Voter Registration, Education and Mobilization Campaign, available at www.nlihc.org/vrem
6. NLIHC’s Advocates’ Guide to Housing and Community Development Policy, available at www.nlihc.org/advocates/index.htm
7. Information on current voucher funding and block grant proposals available at www.cbpp.org/housingvoucher.htm.
8. Calls to Action, talking points, and other advocacy information around current voucher funding and block grant proposals available at www.nlihc.org/news/Sec8-04.html and www.nlihc.org/news/Sec8-05.html.
9. List and status of housing-related bills currently pending in Congress available at http://capwiz.com/nlihc/issues/bills/
10. Information on status of the National Housing Trust Fund legislation and campaign available at www.nhtf.org

Workshop 6-B: Fair Housing Disparate Impact Litigation:
How to Put A Case Together and Litigate

Workshop 6-C: Enforcing Relocation Rights of Displaced Low-Income Residents

1. Workshop 6-C Overview
2. Chart: Federal Relocation Statutes, Regulations, Handbooks
3. Corrective Action Policy (San Francisco HUD Field Office)
4. Chart: Federal Relocation Assistance: Income or Resource?
5. Sample Worksheet: URA & 104(d) Replacement Housing Payment Computation
6. Price et al. v. City of Stockton et al. (Eastern District of CA). Complaint, Preliminary Injunction Order and other documents available at www.wclp.org or by contacting Lynn Martinez at 510-891-9794 x125 or slmartinez@wclp.org.
7. Preventing Low Income Communities from the New “Urban Renewal”: Antidisplacement Advocacy and Relocation Rights Enforcement, Clearinghouse Review, September-October 2003. Available at http://www.povertylaw.org/legalresearch/articles/index.cfm
8. Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition for Federal and Federally Assisted Programs, 49 C.F.R. 24.1 et seq.

Workshop 7-A: Section 8 Voucher Funding Issues

1. Workshop 7-A Overview

Workshop 7-B: Incorporating Fair Housing Into Your Work: Laying the Groundwork

1. Workshop 7-B Overview
2. Incorporating Fair Housing Into Your Work Resource List

Workshop 7-C: No Trespassing:
Balancing Public Housing Resident Safety and the Right to Have Guests

1. Workshop 7-C Overview
2. Outline: Can Tenants Challenge A Landlord’s No Trespass Policies Prohibiting Non-Residents From Visiting a Tenant at Her Home?
3. Hicks – remand decision
4. Hicks – remand amicus brief
5. Hicks – US Supreme Court amicus brief
6. Rucker – amicus brief, available at www.nhlp.org/html/pubhsg/Rucker%20AARP%20Amicus%20FINAL.PDF

Workshop 8-A: Creating Successful Partnerships with Tenant and Community Groups

1. Workshop 8-A Overview PDF
2. “Community Lawyering—Why Now?” by R. Doloff and M. Potvin, Clearinghouse Review, July-August 2003 at 136. This issue of Clearinghouse contains several articles on how lawyers work to promote economic development in partnership with community groups. Available at http://www.povertylaw.org/legalresearch/articles/index.cfm.
3. “Race-Based Advocacy: The Role and Responsibility of LSC Funded Programs” by C. Holmes, L. Perle, A. Houseman, Clearinghouse Review, May-June 2002 at 61. This issue was a special racial justice issue. Available at http://www.povertylaw.org/legalresearch/articles/index.cfm.

Workshop 8-B: The Faces of Predatory Lending and Potential Defenses

1. Workshop 8-B Overview PDF
2. The Faces of Predatory Lending and Potential Defenses, by Jean Constantine-Davis and Nina F. Simon PDF
3. “Truth in Lending” published by the National Consumer Law Center. Find out more at http://www.consumerlaw.org/publications/manuals/lending_truth.shtml
4. “Unfair Deceptive Acts and Practices,” published by the National Consumer Law Center. Find out more at http://www.consumerlaw.org/publications/manuals/unfair_and_deceptive.shtml

Workshop 8-C: Section 3 Plans for
Low-Income Employment and Contracting Opportunities

1. Workshop 8-C Overview
2. A - Addendum to Instructions to Bidders for Contracts
3. B - Holyoke Housing Authority Section 3 Plan Excerpt
4. C - Draft language from Urban Lawyer Law Review article
5. D - Explanation of Proposed Changes to Holyoke Housing Authority Resident Employer Provision
6. E - Proposed Revisions by Western Massachusetts Legal Services to Holyoke Housing Authority Section 3 Plan
7. F - Responsible Employer Addendum to Resident Employment Provision
8. G - Section 3 Requirements from Housing Authority of Kansas City
9. H - Handout for Contractors and Sub-Contractors at Pre-Bid Meeting
10. I - Section 3 Coordinator Job Description
11. J - Pike Project Agreement
12. K - Section 3 Coordinator—CDC Contract
13. NYC Contractors-NYCHA construction contract
14. NYCHA-T.R.A.D.E.S. press release 6-11-03
15. Materials on Section 3: Selected Bibliography and Case Law Review, available at www.nhlp.org/lalshac/hjn2002_conference_materials.htm.
16. Letter from Carolyn Peoples, HUD Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity, to Heather A. Mahood, Deputy City Attorney for Long Beach, Calif. (April 26, 2004) re: Long Beach’s compliance with Section 3 and number of hours worked by new hires. Available at www.nhlp.org/html/pubhsg/index.htm
17. “HUD Rules Long Beach Violated Section 3 Employment Requirements,” 34 Hous. L. Bull. 105 (June 2004)
18. Administrative Complaint of the Carmelitos Tenant Association and individual tenants regarding City of Long Beach failure to comply with Section 3 requirements. Available at www.nhlp.org/html/pubhsg/index.htm.

GENERAL SESSIONS

Health and Housing:
Environmental Health Hazards and Legal Services Housing Advocacy

1. Session overview and resource list

Panel Discussion on the Future of the Public Housing and Voucher Programs

1. Session overview and panelist bios