{"id":3783,"date":"2023-02-08T01:45:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cornelllawreview.org\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2023-02-08T01:45:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:45:57","slug":"weaponizing-code-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/2023\/02\/08\/weaponizing-code-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaponizing Code Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zoning has captured the nation\u2019s attention in recent years: community activism has led cities and states to revisit their zoning codes as a means to increase access to affordable housing. The primary focus has been on single family zoning and its exclusionary effect in reinforcing segregation. However, within some municipalities\u2019 zoning code is a less recognized regulatory device, rental registration requirements, that further controls the demographics of the jurisdiction by excluding renters that the municipality deems undesirable.<br \/>This Essay will describe how landlord or rental registration ordinances, coupled with selective heightened enforcement of building codes and frequent law enforcement checks, can be a Fair Housing Act violation. It will also explain how the current disparate impact claim framework makes it difficult to prove a claim against a local government\u2014a municipality can justify its practices as designed to improve the quality of life for renters and a resident cannot point to a less discriminatory means to do so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read this Essay, please click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Aronsohn-online-essay-final.pdf\">Weaponizing Code Enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoning has captured the nation\u2019s attention in recent years: community activism has led cities and states to revisit their zoning codes as a means to increase access to affordable housing. The primary focus has been on single family zoning and its exclusionary effect in reinforcing segregation. However, within some municipalities\u2019 zoning code is a less&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clr-online-volume-108","category-issue-1-clr-online-volume-108"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/lawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}