Add to ORKGGroup homes represent a non-traditional alternative to single family living. The advent of the group home has taken place since the 1970s for a number of reasons, namely, due to a severe shortage in affordable housing, particularly for newly employed young adults and the elderly, due to public policy considerations calling for deinstitutionalization of the developmentally disabled and mentally ill, and finally due to a growing need for congregate type living arrangements for other special needs populations. Part I of the article explores the framework of the New York State zoning authority and the methods by which municipalities regulate the siting of group homes. Part II discusses the preemptory effect and limitations of the Pavadan Law...
This note surveys the different paths courts and legislatures have taken in their attempts to end h...
Commentators have long decried the pernicious effects that overly restrictive land use regulations, ...
Efforts by municipalities to promote affordable housing have proven to be insufficient as evidenced ...
This Article examines the laws and lawsuits which have affected the establishment of community resid...
The Fair Housing Amendments Act ("FHAA") of 1988 mandates reasonable accommodations to provide the d...
Although the Mains Farm majority\u27s conclusion that a group home for the disabled is neither a sin...
This article examines the impact of state statutes and local ordinances on the establishment of comm...
In the absence of any guidance from the legislature, local officials, in confronting the problem of ...
Recorded history of mental retardation predates defined knowledge of many other areas of disability....
This article introduces zoning laws that try to define “family” and that try to restrict occupancy. ...
This Article examines the impact of the Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA) on prohibiting housing di...
The ubiquitous settlement pattern of the American suburb is in fact a carefully constructed reality....
In the spring of 1968, the U.S. Government made a momentous and inspiring contribution to human righ...
This article reviews the position of the New York courts on the obligation of local governments to z...
Everyone needs a home. But exclusionary zoning ordinances in many communities prevent low-income and...
This note surveys the different paths courts and legislatures have taken in their attempts to end h...
Commentators have long decried the pernicious effects that overly restrictive land use regulations, ...
Efforts by municipalities to promote affordable housing have proven to be insufficient as evidenced ...
This Article examines the laws and lawsuits which have affected the establishment of community resid...
The Fair Housing Amendments Act ("FHAA") of 1988 mandates reasonable accommodations to provide the d...
Although the Mains Farm majority\u27s conclusion that a group home for the disabled is neither a sin...
This article examines the impact of state statutes and local ordinances on the establishment of comm...
In the absence of any guidance from the legislature, local officials, in confronting the problem of ...
Recorded history of mental retardation predates defined knowledge of many other areas of disability....
This article introduces zoning laws that try to define “family” and that try to restrict occupancy. ...
This Article examines the impact of the Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA) on prohibiting housing di...
The ubiquitous settlement pattern of the American suburb is in fact a carefully constructed reality....
In the spring of 1968, the U.S. Government made a momentous and inspiring contribution to human righ...
This article reviews the position of the New York courts on the obligation of local governments to z...
Everyone needs a home. But exclusionary zoning ordinances in many communities prevent low-income and...
This note surveys the different paths courts and legislatures have taken in their attempts to end h...
Commentators have long decried the pernicious effects that overly restrictive land use regulations, ...
Efforts by municipalities to promote affordable housing have proven to be insufficient as evidenced ...