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The research on its effects on mental health is clear: Nothing good comes of solitary. It is a living example of the failure of the both the U.S. prison system and the U.S. mental healthcare system.  By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News Anthony Gay is severely mentally ill.  And like

An eight-year legal battle over whether community preferences for low-cost housing violate housing discrimination law has been cleared for trial.

J. L. Pottenger Jr. ’75, the Nathan Baker Clinical Professor of Law, died on Feb. 23, 2023 at the age of 73.

Initiatives included an annual rent cap for LIHTC-funded properties, for example, meant to keep rentals affordable.

Under the microscope this spring: the Supreme Court, housing segregation, endemic poverty, police brutality, the patriarchy, immigration, whistleblowers, Hollywood abusers, cancel culture, the war in Ukraine, and Gerald Ford.

A group of attorneys and housing advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the town of Woodbridge alleging its zoning policies violate the state’s Fair Housing Act and portions of the state constitution by restricting the number of multi-family units that can be built.

Woodbridge officials last year largely spurned calls to re-zone the overwhelmingly white, wealthy town, leaving a zoning code that blocks most affordable housing.

Woodbridge officials last year largely spurned calls to re-zone the overwhelmingly white, wealthy town, leaving a zoning code that blocks most affordable housing.

We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today.

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