Sessions Information

  • April 28, 2025
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
    Session Type: Concurrent Sessions
    Session Capacity: N/A
    Location: N/A
    Room: Harborside Ballroom A
    Floor: Fourth Floor

    Among the most urgent and polarizing topics in American society today is the multi-headed hydra of eviction, unaffordable housing, and dangerous living conditions. Over 40% of homes in metropolitan areas have at least one health and safety hazard; there is a shortage of over 7.3 million affordable housing units; and 7.6 million people face eviction today–with Black people representing over half and children representing over 40 percent of those threatened. Without housing justice that secures safe, stable, and decent housing low-income Americans face barriers in all areas of life from education, employment, and healthcare access to food security, transportation, and even the ability to vote. Rooted in our country's sordid history of exclusionary, racially discriminatory, and inequitable housing policy, these Gordian knot problems perpetuate widespread disparities in access to necessities, wealth, and material resources for race-class subjugated communities. Without training in deliberate and coordinated responses that uncover and address the underlying vehicles of disempowerment and engage affected populations, the next generation of lawyers will be ill-equipped to ensure housing justice and health equity for all members of society. This session aims to demonstrate how housing justice is an ideal vehicle for teaching next generation lawyers how to unpack and tackle multifaceted social problems. It will provide clinicians with multiple strategies for training students to confront today’s complex challenges by 1) amplifying best practices and pedagogical approaches to teaching housing justice clinics along different leverage points in the system and 2) building community among housing justice clinicians to amplify multi-solving impacts.

Session Speakers
The George Washington University Law School
Concurrent Session Speaker

Georgetown University Law Center
Concurrent Session Speaker

Fordham University School of Law
Concurrent Session Speaker

Georgetown University Law Center
Concurrent Session Speaker

University of New Mexico School of Law
Concurrent Session Speaker

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Concurrent Session Speaker

Session Fees

Fees information is not available at this time.