News Clips
- February 03, 2012 CDP Launches New Initiative with the University of District Columbia School of Law Community Development Law Clinic CDP partners with University of District of Columbia School of Law Community Development Law Clinic to assist in Gulf Coast Recovery efforts.
- December 21, 2011 Lawyers' Committee and Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center Release "People's Analysis of Impediments (AI) to Fair Housing for New Orleans" The "People's AI" is the result of a collaboration among the Lawyers' Committee, the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, and more than a dozen service providers, affordable housing developers, and advocates. The report provides recommendations about how the City of New Orleans can draft an effective Analysis of Impediments and critiques its current draft AI.
- November 01, 2011 Title Clearing Collaborative Has Reached Over 120 Clients And Counting! The New Orleans Title Clearing Collaborative provides pro bono legal assistance to homeowners in Orleans Parish that need help clearing title to their land. Once homeowners get clear title, they will be able to access federal and state aid money to repair and return to their homes that were damaged during Hurricane Katrina. Attorneys with the Collaborative are working with more than 120 clients, far outpacing initial expectations, and they have already cleared title to a number of properties. More than 1,000 people have attended one of the 20 community education and intake events held throughout New Orleans.
- September 30, 2011 | Law Out Loud with Jen CDP Partner Louisiana Appleseed Discusses Title Clearing Initiative on Law Out Loud Community Development Project partners Christy Kane and Jessie Haynes of Louisiana Appleseed were featured on "Law Out Loud with Jen" on WGSO 990 AM this week.
- September 29, 2011 Heirs' Property Retention Coalition (HPRC) Partner Mentioned in NYT Book Review One of our partners in the HPRC, the Center for Heirs' Property Preservation, is mentioned in a recent NY Times book review of "If Sons, Then Heirs", a fiction novel that highlights the troubles with heirs' property.
- September 01, 2011 Barbara Arnwine Speaks as a Panelist at EPA’s Environmental Justice Conference in Detroit, Discusses Agency Failure to Enforce Title VI Lawyers’ Committee Executive Director Barbara Arnwine participated on a panel called “Tools for Agency Accountability and Community Resolution: Civil Rights, Human Rights, Environmental Benefits Agreements, SEPs and Other Tools.” A poignant theme that emerged from the conversations was the longstanding failure of EPA to enforce Title VI environmental justice complaints. “We’re here in this frustration because we’ve been talking about this for decades," Barbara noted.
- August 30, 2011 | All Things Considered 'Left Out': Post-Katrina Housing Battle Continues "In Biloxi, railroad tracks separate some of the neighborhoods that got the most help from those who got little or no aid..."
- August 16, 2011 | SHELTERFORCE Community Land Trusts Go Commercial "The idea of turning the community land trust model into an economic development tool is attracting growing interest, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how it would work..."
- August 03, 2011 | USA Today New Orleans unveils fresh model for housing the poor "The Magnolia Projects, once one of the city's most notorious public housing complexes, today is Harmony Oaks Apartments, a 460-unit mix of government-subsidized and market-priced apartments. It replaces one of six public housing projects across the city recently razed to make room for new apartments and a fresh approach to housing the city's poor..."
- August 01, 2011 CDP visits Clients on the Gulf Coast Last week, CDP’s legal interns, legal assistant and associate counsel visited several clients in New Orleans and Mississippi. The group had performed weeks of research and writing, which was presented to several clients, including Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative (housing finance options), Crescent City CLT (internal corporate policies and 501c3 status), and Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance (bylaws and articles of incorporation).
- July 19, 2011 | Times-Picayune / NOLA Gambit Blight-fighting projects are awarded $1.5 million in grants The Community Revitalization Fund on Friday announced it will give $1.5 million in grants to four organizations that work on countering blight and rebuilding neighborhood...
- January 25, 2011 | The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Turkey Creek Community Initiatives, a CDP client, is Featured on the Daily Show Derrick Evans, the head of Turkey Creek Community Initiatives - one of the Lawyers' Committee's oldest clients - was featured on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart during the January 24 episode. In the segment, Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac briefly discusses the important history of Turkey Creek, which is located in Gulfport, Mississippi and was founded by freed slaves. The community is still predominantly African American today, though Cenac points out the irony that birds' habitats seem to get more attention and protection than African American heritage and homes.
- November 15, 2010 Lawyers' Committee Announces Katrina Recovery Settlement with HUD & Miss. On November 8, HUD approved a disaster recovery plan redirecting $132 million to address the unmet housing needs of low income homeowners and renters in Mississippi.
- September 27, 2010 Lawyers' Committee Holds Heirs' Property Workshops on the Eastern Shore in Maryland on September 24 and 25. The Lawyers' Committee, in partnership with Mid-Shore Pro Bono, held two successful workshops in Cambridge and Denton, Maryland.
