Articles

• For the Rest of Their Lives: Seniors and the Fair Housing Act, an article from The Iowa Law Review by Robert G. Shwemm and Michael Allen (reproduced with permission). This is a PDF document; You will need the free Acrobat Reader to view and print this file.
• Why Does the Business Manager Need My Complete Medical History? An Examination of Housing Discrimination in Long-Term Care: An article by Bazelon Center senior staff attorney Michael Allen and Eric Carlson, reprinted with permission of NAELA (March 2004). This article is presented in PDF format; You will need the free Acrobat Reader to view and print this file.
• Preserving elders’ housing rights—Elderly people who have suffered discrimination are increasingly turning to federal law to secure greater housing opportunities and protect their rights: Reprinted with permission of TRIAL Magazine (October 2003)
• Waking Rip van Winkle—Why Developments in the Last 20 Years Should Teach the Mental Health System Not to Use Housing as a Tool of Coercion: A 2003 article by senior staff attorney Michael Allen from Behavioral Sciences and the Law. This article is presented in PDF format; You will need the free Acrobat Reader to view and print this file.
• Why Not in Our Back Yard?: A look at local opposition to the siting of low-cost housing and community services, from the Winter 2002 issue of the Planning Commisioners Journal.(This is a PDF file; You will need the free Acrobat Reader to view it)
• Separate and Unequal: The Struggle of Tenants with Mental Illness to Maintain Housing: An article by Bazelon Center Staff Attorney Michael Allen examining the "bundling" of housing and support services for people with psychiatric disabilities—the requirement that consumers comply with a treatment program in order to retain the housing. Allen suggests that the practice is counterproductive and of questionable legality. The article also reviews the state of fair housing laws and urges vigorous advocacy for enforcement of federal and state fair housing laws.(This is a PDF file; You will need the free Acrobat Reader to view it)
• Using Reasonable Accommodations to Preserve Rights of Tenants with Disabilities
• Managing Local Opposition to Affordable Housing - A New Approach to NIMBY: This article by Tim Iglesias presents a state-of-the art approach to dealing with NIMBYism against people with mental disabilities and others. This is a PDF file; You will need the free Acrobat Reader to view it. A text version is also available.
• A Fair Housing Guide to the Siting of Group Homes for the Disabled and Children, jointly produced by the Coalition to Preserve the Fair Housing Act and the National League of Cities.