On August 25, 2010 the Law Center joined the National Housing Law Project (NHLP) and a number of other partners in submitting an amicus brief to the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, supporting a tenant who sued her landlord under the Protecting Tenants in Foreclosure Act (PTFA), wanting to stay in her unit as allowed under the law.  The case was dismissed because the trial judge decided that PTFA does not allow tenants to use the law pro-actively to sue for violations - they can only use the law as a defense in a suit brought by their landlord to get them removed from a property.  Unfortunately, reading the law in this way severely limits its applicability, because in most states tenants do not have sufficient time to file a claim based on PTFA after a landlord has filed for their eviction.  The LawCenter's brief argues that tenants should have the right to sue under PTFA, since Congress wanted the law to be enforced and did not provide any other method of doing so.

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As many as 822 Salem-Keizer students struggled to find a place to sleep last school year, according to state numbers released Wednesday.

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For the sixth consecutive year, the Medford School District ranked second in the state in the number of homeless elementary and secondary students, but that number doesn't reflect homeless children too young for school nor homeless teens who weren't enrolled in school sometime during the 2009-2010 school year, according to the homeless student report.

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Oregon public schools continued to see swelling numbers of homeless students in 2009-10, a testament to the reach and tenacity of a stubborn recession.

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District officials vowed Thursday to do a better job housing homeless families this winter, promising that they would not allow a repeat of the disastrous overcrowding and poor conditions at the city's Family Emergency Shelter at the former D.C. General Hospital.

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Ally Financial, the country's fourth-biggest mortgage lender, halted home evictions in 23 states this week after revelations about forgeries and "robo-signers" call the legality of tens of thousands of foreclosures into question.

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One of the largest real estate companies in St. Louis -mainly known for lease-to-own deals targeting low-income buyers-is facing lawsuits from at least five banks.  With claims topping $7.5 million, tenants are beginning to receive foreclosure notices and are facing the possibility of losing not only their homes, but months or years of payments they made toward the dream of homeownership.

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Despite significant NIMBY resistance, the New Orleans City Council last week voted in favor of a plan to convert an abandoned nursing home into 40 units of affordable housing for homeless and low-income residents.

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