Housing and Food Law

Resources

Food

• Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic COVID-19 Response Page (updated regularly) 
• NY Times: America At Hunger’s Edge (September 2020)
• American Economic Journal: Snapping Back: Food Stamp Bans and Criminal Recidivism (May 2019)
• NY Times: Amid a Deadly Virus and Crippled Economy, One Form of Aid Has Proved Reliable: Food Stamps (July 19, 2020)
• Morningstar: The Pandemic’s Impact on Social Security and Medicare (May 25, 2020)
• Wall Street Journal: Suspend the Payroll Tax (April 19, 2020)
•  NY Times: The Tax Cut That Trump Wants, but Few Others Do, Explained (July 23, 2020)
• Politico: Stark racial disparities emerge as families struggle to get enough food (July 6, 2020)
• Public Justice Food Project: Food Chain Workers Alliance v. Tyson Foods Title VI Complaint
• The Fern: Covid-19 shows no sign of slowing among food-system workers (June 22, 2020)
• Washington Post: Chef Jonny Rhodes built a revered Houston restaurant. His next mission: Fighting ‘food apartheid.’ (July 2, 2020)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Legal mechanisms to contribute to safe and secured food supply chains in times of COVID-19 (May 25, 2020)
• Health Affairs: Maximizing Food Security For Unauthorized Immigrants During COVID-19 (July 28, 2020)
• Mother Jones: These Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America (April 13, 2020)
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: States Are Using Much-Needed Temporary Flexibility in SNAP to Respond to COVID-19 Challenges (Aug. 17, 2020)
• Public Health Law Watch: Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19 (Aug. 2020)
  • Chapter 29 – Using SNAP to Address Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• ProPublica: Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19 (Aug. 20, 2020)

Housing

• Stanford Law & Policy Lab: Avoiding the COVID-19 Eviction Cliff (July 2, 2020)
• CNN: Feds dismantle anti-discrimination housing rule (July 23, 2020)
• NY Times: 31% Can’t Pay the Rent: ‘It’s Only Going to Get Worse’ (May 27, 2020)

• UCLA Law Review: How the Law Fails Tenants (And not Just During a Pandemic) (June 23, 2020)

• American Bar Ass’n: COVID-19 and Real Estate (July/Aug 2020)

• Law360: As COVID-19 Safeguards End, Eviction Wave Begins (July 12, 2020)
• NY Times: Sleeping Outside in a Pandemic: Vulnerable Renters Face Evictions (July 23, 2020)

• The Aspen Institute: The COVID-19 Eviction Crisis: an Estimated 30-40 Million People in America Are at Risk (Aug. 7, 2020)

• Forbes: Trump’s Executive Order On Housing Doesn’t Guarantee An Eviction Moratorium (Aug. 10, 2020)

• WWL-TV, Channel 4: Protest against evictions shuts down court (July 30, 2020)

• Center for American Progress: Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, and Segregation: How America’s Housing System Undermines Wealth Building in Communities of Color (Aug. 7, 2019)

• SSRN: The Pieces of Housing Integration (July 11, 2020)

• The Boston Foundation: Racial Equity in Housing in the COVID-19 Era (July 14, 2020)

• NY Times: The Rent Eats First, Even During a Pandemic | When the Threat of Eviction Meets the Threat of Coronavirus (Aug. 29, 2020)
• Arguments for rent & mortgage moratoria
  • NY Times: The Case for a Rent Moratorium (Apr. 1, 2020)
  • Stanford Law & Policy Lab: Avoiding the COVID-19 Eviction Cliff (Jul. 2, 2020)
  • HuffPost: Millions of Americans are about to be Homeless, and It’s Totally Preventable (Jul. 29, 2020)
  • CNBC: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S., expert says (Jul. 11, 2020)
  • CNN: US faces ‘avalanche of evictions’ as rent protections expire (Jun. 20, 2020)
  • ProPublica: The Eviction Ban Worked, but It’s Almost Over. Some Landlords Are Getting Ready (Jul. 24, 2020)
  • NY Times: The Coming Eviction Crisis: ‘It’s Hard to Pay the Bills on Nothing’ (Aug. 9, 2020)
  • Houston Public Media: $15 Million In Rent Relief Claimed In Less Than 2 Hours, As Tenant Demand Creates Lag In Response (May 15, 2020)

• Arguments against rent & mortgage moratoria
  • TIME: How Eviction Moratoriums Are Hurting Small Landlords—and Why That’s Bad for the Future of Affordable Housing (Jun. 11, 2020)
  • Pacific Legal Foundation: Seattle’s rent moratorium would hurt renters and landlords—and it’s unconstitutional (May 28, 2020)
  • Brookings: Halting evictions during the coronavirus crisis isn’t as good as it sounds (Mar. 25, 2020)
  • Detroit Free Press: Eviction ban leaves landlords worried about missed payments and their bottom line (May 18, 2020)
  • Bloomberg Law: NYC Covid Rent Relief Laws Shove Risk Onto Landlords, Suit Says (Jul. 10, 2020)

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