- Archived Testimony of Prof. Brian Gilmore before the House Subcommitte on Housing and community OpportunityIf you missed Professor Brian Gilmore’s testimony as one of the witnesses before the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity hearing regarding the Housing Fairness Act of 2009 (H.R. 476), you may click link above.
If you would like to view Prof. Gilmore’s testimony in particular, it begins approximately 1 hour and 8 minutes into the hearing and he answers some questions approximately 6 minutes later.
H.R. 476, the Housing Fairness Act of 2009, is a bill sponsored by Rep. Al Green, (D-Texas 9th District). The bill authorizes $20 million annually for HUD to administer a nationwide testing program to measure patters of adverse treatment based on race, color, religion, sex, familial status, disability or national origins in rentals, real estate sales, and lending practices. January 20, 2010
Fair Housing News
- A New Breed of Guard Dog Attacks BedbugsIncreasingly, real estate lawyers are urging buyers in contract to inspect apartments before they close, and in their advertising, many pest control companies exhort would-be tenants to “inspect before you rent.” And dogs like Cruiser can inspect a room in minutes, whereas lesser mammals like human beings need hours to conduct a visual inspection. Bedbug-sniffing dogs, adorable yet stunningly accurate — entomology researchers at the University of Florida report that well-trained dogs can detect a single live bug or egg with 96 percent accuracy — are the new and furry front line in an escalating and confounding domestic war. March 12, 2010
- Chicago: Enforcement of Landscape Ordinance Comes at a Bad TimeAlready hurt by the economy, small-business owners across the city say they are being forced to stretch too far to meet the city’s strict requirements for new fencing and planting trees or bushes. The city first singled out downtown buildings for such improvements, but now that the focus has turned to smaller businesses, letters like the one Mr. Perrotta received are hitting business owners just as the recession is knocking them, too. Complaints from furious constituents have prompted some aldermen to call for a two-year break in enforcing the landscaping ordinance. On Wednesday, Alderman Eugene Schulter (47th Ward), a co-sponsor of the original ordinance, introduced a measure that would enact a moratorium. March 12, 2010
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