Community Development Clinic
You may contact Kristen Baginski, the course liaison, for research-related questions at kbaginski@law.umaryland.edu.
Primary Law | Agencies, Associations, and NGOs | Subscription Databases | Electronic Journals | Additional Electronic Resources | Brief Bibliography of Print Resources
Primary Law
Legislative Materials
- Thomas
- United States Code (searchable full text)
- Fair Housing Act - 42 USC ch. 45
- Housing and Community Development Act - 42 USC ch. 69
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) - 12 USC ch. 27
- Congressional Record (searchable full text)
- Code of Maryland
- Baltimore City Code and Charter
Administrative Materials
- Code of Federal Regulations (searchable full text)
- List of CFR Sections Affected
- Federal Register (searchable full text))
- Community Development Block Grant Regulations (24 CFR Part 570)
- COMAR
- Maryland Attorney General
Judicial Materials
Agencies, Associations, and Non-Governmental Organizations
- American Bar Association: Forum on Affordable Housing & Community Development Law
- Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance
- Poverty and Welfare Home Page
- Council for Affordable Rural Housing
- Government National Mortgage Association
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA)
- National Association of Mortgage Brokers
- National Association of Review Appraisers & Mortgage Underwriters
- National Community Reinvestment Coalition
- National Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED)
- National Housing & Rehabilitation Association
- Maryland Department of Housing & Community Development
- Baltimore Department of Housing & Community Development
Subscription Databases
- Academic Search Premier
- BNA's U.S. Law Week
- Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
Electronic Journals & Research Guides
- Human Rights and Human Welfare
- Journal of Housing and Community Development
- Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies
- Journal of Socio-Economics
- Journal of Urban Planning & Development
- Law & Policy
- Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies
Additional Electronic Resources
- American Factfinder (Population, housing, economic,
and geographic data from the Census Bureau.)
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet - Baltimore City Homepage
http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us - Cornell University Legal Information Institute: Mortgages,
an Overview
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/mortgages.html - Cornell University Legal Information Institute: Property
Tax, an Overview
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/property_tax.html - Cornell University Legal Information Institute: Real
Estate Transactions, an Overview
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/real_estate.html - FannieMae
http://www.fanniemae.com - Freddie Mac
http://www.freddiemac.com/ - State of the Nation's Housing 2003 (Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
Brief Bibliography
The following is a partial list of the Community Development related materials available in the Thurgood Marshall Law Library. The material is listed by main entry with the title and/or author information in bold type. The Library also contains a complete set of United States Codes, Statutes at Large, Code of Federal Regulations, and the Federal Register.
Beaning, David.
Law school involvement in community development: a study of current
initiatives and approaches.
Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, [1998?]
General Stacks KF272 .B42
City and nation: rethinking place and identity /edited by Michael
Peter Smith and Thomas Bender.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, c2001.
General Stacks HT119 .C65 2001
Daye, Charles E.
Housing and community development / by Charles E. Daye
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, c1999.
General Stacks KF5728 .H68 1999
Filner, Matthew F.
On the limits of community development: participation, power, and
growth in urban America, 1965-2000.
2001
General Stacks HT175.U55 F22 2001
Frug, Gerald E.
City making : building communities without building walls.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1999.
General Stacks HT167 .F78 1999
Kushner, James A.
Fair housing: discrimination in real estate, community development,
and revitalization
2d ed,
Colorado Springs: Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, c1995.
General Stacks KF5740.K87
Operations guide for community development financial institutions
/ National Community Capital Association.
Philadelphia: The Association, 1999.
General Stacks HT123 .O12 1999
Richardson, Jean.
Partnerships in communities : reweaving the fabric of rural America.
Washington, DC: Island Press, c2000.
General Stacks HN46.C6 R53 2000
Simon, William H.
The community economic development movement : law, business, and the
new social policy.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
General Stacks| HN90.C6 S557 2001
Vacant building receivership actions pursuant to the Baltimore City
Building Code.
Baltimore, MD: Community Law Center, 1999.
Clinic KFX1112.1 .V73 1999
Government Documents
Building livable communities: sustaining prosperity, improving quality
of life, building a sense of community.
Washington, DC: Livable Communities, 2000.
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS5086
Property "flipping": HUD's failure to curb mortgage fraud
: report / prepared by the minority staff of the Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States
Senate.
PDF version: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS15911
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee
on Rural Enterprises, Business Opportunities, and Special Small Business
Problems.
The future of Round II Empowerment Zones : hearing before the Subcommittee
on Rural Enterprises, Business Opportunities, and Special Small Business
Problems of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives,
One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, Washington, DC, June 7, 2000.
Washington, DC: USGPO, 2001.
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS11299
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS11300
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business.
The future of Round II Empowerment Zones: field hearing before the Committee
on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress,
second
session, Mecca, CA, April 26, 2000.
Washington, DC: USGPO, 2001.
This Course Research Page was created by Barbara West. Updated by Kristen Baginski Fall 2006
