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Professor Rigel Oliveri, along with coauthors Florence W. Roisman and Stacy E. Seicshnaydre, has published “The Right to Fair Housing: Cases, Statutes, and Context,” the first casebook ever published on fair housing.
The new casebook presents constitutional, statutory, regulatory, and sub-regulatory legal standards in the contexts of sales and rentals of housing; lending, appraisals,and homeowners’ insurance; affordable housing and community development; zoning; and related programs. The federally protected characteristics—race, color, national origin,religion, sex, disability, and familial status—are covered extensively, with “sex” including sexual orientation and gender identity. The book presents historical and contemporary perspectives illustrating the ways in which law established and enabled residential segregation and inequality based on race and other classifications, as well as the ways in which law has provided some means of dismantling residential hierarchies.