The housing crisis is at the forefront of American law and society. This program will highlight the many perspectives on the housing crisis across legal areas and interdisciplinary perspectives. There are increasingly serious challenges related to unhoused populations, the missing middle, and the stress that real estate economics and climate change place on property transactions.
What questions does this raise for us? Private economics, equity, community development and mobility, and environmental concerns are all in play. The Supreme Court has recently issued several property rights rulings that seem to move the needle in favor of property rights, but the land use reform movement increasingly tends to listen to both property-rights and progressive land-use arguments regarding property solutions. Our colloquy will help advance that discussion, within the framework of the contemporary housing crisis.
The Section held a virtual business meeting prior to the Annual Meeting.