Guides: Housing Justice: Treatises and Practice Guides

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants' Rights (the "Green Book") & Navigating HUD Programs

HUD Housing Programs: Tenants' Rights (the "Green Book")
A guide to understanding HUD’s housing programs. The Green Book includes new policies, emergent case law, and regulatory changes that shape the legal framework for cases that impact HUD tenants. The Green Book also contains unpublished court decisions, hard-to-find memos, and legal theories and strategies, providing a comprehensive treatise on evictions, subsidy terminations, affordable housing preservation and more.

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Navigating HUD Programs: A Practitioners' Guide to the Labyrinth (2nd ed. 2024)
Call Number: KF5729 .N38 2024
On p. xxi, the editors describe this updated edition as a 'once-in-a-decade' engagement with the state of HUD-assisted multifamily affordable housing development in the 2020s."

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Rasch's New York Landlord &Tenant, Including Summary Proceedings by Robert F. Dolan
Comprehensive discussion of the landlord-tenant relationship, from commencement through termination and summary proceedings.

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Landlord and Tenant Practice in New York by Daniel Finkelstein; Lucas A. Ferrara
Legal analysis and practitioner advice concerning New York state landlord and tenant practice.

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Residential Landlord-tenant Law in New York by Fern A. Fisher; Andrew Scherer
Publication Date: 2024-2025 ed.

Covers all aspects of the landlord-tenant relationship in New York, with step-by-step guidance through every stage of a housing case. Updated to include discussions concerning New York City's Right to Counsel Law, the Covid-19 pandemic, and source of income discrimination, among other things.

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Bergman on New York Mortgage Foreclosures by Bruce J. Bergman
Treatise covers mortgage drafting, acceleration of the debt upon default, and defenses to acceleration, as well as the entire foreclosure process from initiation to Initiating the foreclosure procedure from the entire foreclosure process from initiation through post-foreclosure sale procedures.

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Steinman's Bergerman & Roth New York Real Property Forms, Annotated by Irving I. Steinman
Call Number: KFN5140.A65 B437 (RESERVE)

Multi-volume set of annotated forms, with statutory and case citations, covering a comprehensive range of real property matters, including landlord-tenant summary proceedings (Volume 6, Chapter 20).

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Bender's Forms for the Civil Practice
Contains RPAPL Article 7 forms.

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Ira Mark Bloom, Drafting New York Wills and Related Documents (4th ed., coverage through Dec. 2024 (Release No. 68))
Professor Bloom's practice handbook provides drafting guidance, discussion of key cases, analytical checklists, and forms. Includes: Checklist of 150+ items for consideration when drafting a will or a testamentary trust.

Trusts and Estates Practice in New York (New York Practice Series) by Eve Preminger, John M. Thomas, Susan C. Frunzi & Anne K. Hilker
Publication Date: 2024-2025 ed. (Thomson Reuters site states: "updated annually")

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