Victory in Camden, New Jersey
In late October, Parkside Recovery Services announced that they would not be relocating a methadone clinic from downtown Camden to the city’s distressed Waterfront South neighborhood under pressure from CDP client Heart of Camden and pro bono counsel Kirkland & Ellis. Read More »
CDP Perspective on the Livable Communities Act
On August 6, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd introduced the Livable Communities Act of 2009. The Community Development Project shares its thoughts on the proposed legislation. Read More »
Joint Statement on Rejection of Texas CDBG Plan
On November 23, Joe Rich of the Lawyers' Committee and Reilly Morse of the Mississippi Center for Justice issued a joint statement applauding HUD's decision to reject Texas's disaster recovery CDBG plan for Hurricane Ike. Read More »
Heirs' Property Workshops in Maryland
On Friday, September 25 and Saturday, September 26, the African American Land Trust, DLA Piper and the Lawyers' Committee drew over 50 landowners workshops for families with land-title problems on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Read More »
- Nov 23 Joint Statement from Reilly Morse, Mississippi Center for Justice Senior Attorney, and Joe Rich, Director Fair Housing, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, on HUD’s Rejection of Texas’s Disaster Plan
- Sep 22 2 Shore workshops on ‘heirs’ property’ In a September 22 article, Andrea Siegel of the Baltimore Sun reported on two workshops for owners of heirs’ property that the Lawyers’ Committee has planned for September 25 and 26. The workshops are the result of a collaborative effort on the part of the Lawyers’ Committee, DLA Piper, the African American Land Trust, and the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy and are being made possible by a generous grant from PNC.
- Sep 04 PNC Provides Funding to Expand Lawyers' Committee's Heirs' Property Initiative to Maryland's Eastern Shore
