Palmer/Sixth Street Properties v. City of Los Angeles, 2009 W.L. 2170637 (Cal. App. July 22, 2009)
The Court of Appeal has held that Los Angeles violated state law when it required a developer either to include a specified percentage of affordable units within his proposed housing project or pay an in-lieu fee. The court held that…
The road to many bankruptcies is paved with medical bills
In an update of a 2001 study, Harvard researchers have found that more than sixty percent of bankruptcies filed in 2007 were caused by loss of income due to illness or medical debt. Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007…
Updated summary of California budget
The California Budget Project has posted an updated outline of the major provisions of the budget agreement sent to the Governor. Check the CBP website for further updates.
The California “budget deal”
The California Budget Project has posted a two-page summary of the California “budget deal.” The CBP summary is based on “the best available rumors and press reports, since no details of the agreement have been made available to the public.”…
The dire state of language access in state courts
In its recent publication Language Access in State Courts, the Brennan Center for Justice describes the experience of the millions of Limited English Proficient (LEP) Americans who must go to court to protect themselves, their families or their homes while…
The “Meanest Cities” toward homeless people
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless recently released Homes not Handcuffs, a nationwide survey and report on the criminalization of homelessness in 273 jurisdictions. The report focuses on data gathered on…
Underemployment: The Reality
The worst kept secret in metric-driven analysis of unemployment figures is that a broader, more commonsensical definition of “joblessness” means the real rate of unemployment, when one includes underemployment, effectively doubles the figures normally reported. The New York Times today…
