Welfare Litigation to Prevent Homelessness
Analysis of welfare litigation to mitigate the problem of homelessness. Also explores the relationship between the volume of welfare schemes and homelessness.
The Review: Volume 16Issue 4
The Transformation of Aid to Families with Dependent Children: The Family Support Act in Historical Context
Discussion on aid to female-headed households in poverty and the reforms of the federal Family Support Act, 1988.
Squatting in New York City: Justification and Strategy
Addresses the problem of squatting in NYC and how the many objections to squatting can be dismissed. It describes squatting campaigns like ACORN and MHANY.
Mobilization on the Margins of the Lawsuit: Making Space for Clients to Speak
Exploration of welfare litigation to further education and mobilization the poor.
Litigation Strategies for Addressing Bureaucratic Disentitlement
An analyses of statutory rights aimed at providing welfare that are stymied by bureaucratic processes rendering those rights virtually useless.
Income Deeming in the AFDC Program: Using Dual Track Family Law to Make Poor Women Poorer
Analysis of the AFDC Program and the federal amendments to it which have imposed more familial obligations on the poor than on any other class.
Colloquium
Index
Child Support for Welfare Families: Family Policy Trapped in Its Own Rhetoric
Explores the flaws of the child support system. Duscusses the social benefit of child support and analyses alternative child support mechanisms.
The Antinomies of Poverty Law and a Theory of Dialogic Empowerment
Examines the perception of poverty law. Posits that it is vindicated, not when lawyers effect change through litigation, but by empowering the poor.
Administrative Closings of Public Assistance Cases: The Rise of Hunger and Homelessness in New York City
Analyses the problem of restricted public assistance programs due to bureaucratic hurdles in NYC. [Abstract only]
Other Issues in this Volume
Issue 1
featuring
Issue 2
featuring
- Pregnancy Police: The Health Policy and Legal Implications of Punishing Pregnant Women for Harm to Their Fetuses
- Undermining Congressional Oversight of Covert Intelligence Operations: The Reagan Administration Secretly Arms Iran
- Parratt v. Taylor: Unauthorized Deprivations and the Content of an Adequate Remedy
Issue 3
featuring
- The Right to Counsel after Kuhlmann v. Wilson: Deliberate Elicitation or Interrogation
- Alien Status Restrictions on Eligibility for Federally Funded Assistance Programs
- Restricting Access to Federal Habeas Corpus: Justice Sacrificed on the Altars of Expediency, Federalism and Deterrence
- The Misadventures of State Postconviction Remedies