Aug 13, 2015
Goldfarb and Lipman successfully represented two San Francisco affordable housing nonprofit corporations and the seven individual members of the Boards of Directors of the nonprofits in defense of a takeover attempt by a San Francisco church. The San Francisco...
Aug 11, 2015
HUD released its final rule last month for the implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) provisions. Click here to read more.
08/11/2015
Barbara Kautz will be presenting at the SPUR Urban Center in San Francisco on August 11, 2015 at 12:30 p.m. Please join Barb, along with Kiersten Dischinger of the San Francisco Planning Department and Claudio Cappio of the City of Oakland, for a presentation on...
Aug 7, 2015
In City of San Diego v. Board of Trustees of the California State University (San Diego v. CSU), the California Supreme Court rejected CSU’s contention that the University could not pay off-site environmental mitigation costs unless the Legislature specifically...
Jul 29, 2015
The latest volume of the California Real Property Journal includes an article written by G&L partner Barbara Kautz. In “No More Kids! How Overcrowded Schools May Lead to Violations of Fair Housing Laws,” Barb describes how overcrowded schools have led...
Jul 1, 2015
In Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court held that disparate impact claims are a valid basis for lawsuits under the Federal Fair Housing Act (the “FHA”). Click here for more...