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Additional Resources
Resources from Advocates
- The Partnership to End Long Term Homelessness - features a searchable knowledge center of case studies, best practices, data and trends in the field of chronic homelessness. Specific strategies featured include supportive housing, prevention, and the systems changes needed to bring about the end of chronic homelessness.
- Seniors--Protecting Your Housing Rights is a brochure produced by the John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic, summarizing the types of housing discrimination that older adults often face and what they can do to protect themselves.
- Fair Housing Rights of Seniors with Disabilities - a handbook by the John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center
- For laws governing service dogs, see Psychiatric
Service Dog Society.
- www.fairhousinglaw.org This
site by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, National Fair Housing
Alliance, Ad Council and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
was launched to help
make sure that renters and homebuyers know their rights
and how to spot illegal behavior by landlords or realtors.
- Priced Out in 2002:
Housing Crisis Worsens for People with Disabilities, a report by the Consortium
for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force (June 2003)
- The NIMBY Report has
been revived as joint venture of the Building
Better Communities Network and the National
Low Income Housing Coalition under the supervision of Michael Allen of
the Bazelon Center. The publication identifies local instances of community
opposition to housing or community-based services and successful strategies
to overcome this opposition.
- Boston's Technical Assistance Collaborative has
information and a listserv for health, housing and human service organizations
serving people with disabilities.
- The Olmstead Decision and Housing:
Opportunity Knocks is an extensive report on housing opportunities
for people with disabilities in the wake of the Olmstead Supreme Court
decision, produced by TAC and the Consortium
for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force.
- Bazelon Center intern Sarah Lawsky (Yale Law School, '01) published an
on-line article entitled Disregarding
Disability: The Effect of Sutton v. United Airlines on Litigation Under the
Fair Housing Amendments Act.
- For laws governing service dogs, see Psychiatric
Service Dog Society.
- The Coalition to Preserve the Fair Housing
Act has historical resources on Congress' attack on the
1988 Fair Housing Amendments Act and a guide, jointly produced with the
National Leage of Cities, to the siting
of group homes.
- The Housing Association of Delaware Valley has
a list of useful links on fair housing and community revitalization.
- Also see the National Fair Housing
Advocate Online, where you can find the Fair Housing Act, a
fair housing search engine (select Disability Discrimination under "Basis
for Action" and then select all the "Types of Transactions" for a list
of cases). The site also provides links for finding
private fair housing agencies and public fair housing enforcement agencies
all over the country at http://www.fairhousing.com/resources/finder/index.htm.
- the Building
Better Communities Network, an information clearinghouse and
communications forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and
to successfully siting
affordable housing and community services.
Federal Government Resources
Resources by the Bazelon Center
- Transforming Housing for People with Psychiatric Disabilities Report, in light of the Olmstead decision and the President’s New Freedom Commission, this report calls for concrete action by State and Federal governments toward ending reliance on needlessly segregated living arrangements such as board and care homes that isolate residents from the community.
- Barriers to Accessible Housing: Enforcement Issues in "Design and Construction" Cases under the Fair Housing Act
- 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.
- The
Fair Housing Act Is a Critical Tool in Expanding Housing Opportunities
for People with Disabilities, an article by Bazelon staff attorney
Michael Allen in the National Fair Housing Advocate.
- Increasing the Usability of Housing Choice Vouchers for People with Disabilities, by Bazelon staff attorney Michael Allen, published in Housing Law Bulletin, a publication of the National Housing Law Project.
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