• Program Highlights
• The State of Fair Housing: A Report from the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal OpportunityMay 10, 2010
• Archived Testimony of Prof. Brian Gilmore before the House Subcommitte on Housing and community OpportunityJanuary 20, 2010
• Gilmore Weighs in Over the Airwaves of NPR’s KCRW “To The Point”, Santa Monica, CAAugust 11, 2009
• HUSL Fair Housing Clinic’s Fair Housing Month ActivitiesApril 1, 2009

Professor Brian Gilmore Publishes Article in University of the Disitrict of Columbia Law Review

July 4, 2007

Supervising Attorney for the Howard University School of Law’s Fair Housing Clinic, Brian Gilmore, authored a journal article that has been published in The University of the District of Columbia Law Review, Spring 2007, Volume 10, Number 1, entitled, ” Love You Madly: The Life and times of the Neighborhood legal Services Program of Washington, D.C.”

This article is a brief historical examination of the origins of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program and an analysis of the work of the program as a federally funded legal services program for forty years. Part I of this article examines the history of the program in the early years and the birth of the “neighborhood” concept in legal services. Part II analyzes the key precedent-setting housing cases the program litigated in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Part III addresses the criticisms of the program and reviews legal services in general. For instance, almost immediately from its inception, the idea of neighborhood-based legal services for the poor came under assault by political forces interested in destroying these organizations and their underlying governmental support. Finally, this article presents the obvious question: What is the real legacy and lessons left by the Neighborhood Legal Services Program as it continues its work amidst a much different legal services environment? Click here to download pdf file of article. This article is copyrighted © 2007 by The University of the District of Columbia Law Review.