Community Development Clinic
You may contact Jason Hawkins, the course liaison, for research-related questions at jhawkins@law.umaryland.edu.
Books
- Building Healthy Communities: A Guide to Community Economic Development for Advocates, Lawyers, and Policymakers (2009) / by Roger A. Clay & Susan R. Jones. This books documents themes and trends in community economic development, including the role of nonprofit organizations, government community and economic development tools, and environmental considerations. [For publisher's description click HERE]
Availability: [Print: See Catalog Record]
- Handbook of Community Practice (2005) / by Marie Weil et al. This book examines and assesses practice, theory, and research methods for community develoment, organizing, and planning. [For publisher's description click HERE]
Availability: [Print: See Catalog Record] [GoogleBooks Preview]
- Housing and Community Development / by Charles E. Daye. This casebook covers housing law and policy. Explores, housing policies, neighborhood revitalization policies, and even the U.S. foreclosure crisis. [For publisher's description click HERE]
Availability: [Print: See Catalog Record]
Videos
- Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street. The film looks at urban policies that had an adverse effect on the community from the point of view of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a nonprofit community-based planning and organizing entity rooted in the Roxbury/North Dorchester neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. [For publisher's description click HERE]
Availability: [See Catalog Record]
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 (Effective July 21, 2011, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) will be administered and enforced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)) .
- 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 (Overview or Attorney General Opinions)
Judicial Materials
Agencies, Associations, and Non-Governmental Organizations
- American Bar Association: Forum on Affordable Housing & Community Development Law
- Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance
- 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
- International Economic Development Council (formed by the merger of the American Economic Development Council (AEDC) and the Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED))
- National Housing & Rehabilitation Association
- Maryland Department of Housing & Community Development
- Baltimore Housing (the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) and the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) were restructured to operate as one agency. The new collaboration is known as Baltimore Housing)
Subscription Databases
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://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml - 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 (Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University)
http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/research/state_nations_housing
This Course Research Page was created by Barbara West. Last updated by Jason Hawkins July 13, 2012.