Comments on: “Stop calling it fair housing…” https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/06/stop-calling-it-fair-housing/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 15 Jul 2015 04:30:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: July 15 roundup - Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/06/stop-calling-it-fair-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-325819 Wed, 15 Jul 2015 04:30:13 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=53929#comment-325819 […] “Every state county or municipality…should think long and hard before taking a dime in HUD money.” [Richard Epstein, Hoover “Defining Ideas”, “The Folly of ‘Fair’ Housing”] “Confusion and uncertainty” in housing sector as to what disparate impact liability actually will mean, after Supreme Court ruling [Hans Bader, CEI; earlier] […]

]]> By: Hugo S Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/06/stop-calling-it-fair-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-325253 Sat, 27 Jun 2015 08:00:39 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=53929#comment-325253 State and local governments incur liability if they spend Federal money to upgrade housing in troubled minority neighborhoods, or if they upgrade housing anywhere without rigorously vetted quota plans in place. Many governments will find it prudent to shut down all government housing development.

Perhaps it will be necessary to restart frozen government housing development with “full faith and credit” Federal guarantees that specific projects will not be cited in “disparate impact” lawsuits.

]]> By: DensityDuck https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/06/stop-calling-it-fair-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-325237 Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:19:25 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=53929#comment-325237 The reasoning is easy to understand: The judges think that these aren’t laws or guidelines, but rather justifications for punishments that will be applied to Bad People. It’s assumed that everyone will ignore this ruling except when some nefarious evildoer needs to be hammered; *certainly* you wouldn’t have people actually try to *comply* with the implications of this ruling, right?

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