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Below are the tables of contents for current issues of the Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law and Policy.


Volume XIII, Number 1, Winter 2006 (forthcoming)

Articles

Rural Housing and Code Enforcement: Navigating between Values and Housing Types, by Ezra Rosser

Distancing Rural Poverty, by Debra Bassett

Housing Vulnerability Among Rural Trailer Park Households, by Katherine MacTavish, Michelle Eley, Sonya Salamon

Regional Differences in the Effects of Welfare Reform: Evidence from an Experimental Program in Rural and Urban Minnesota, by Lisa Gennetian, Cynthia Miller, Cindy Redcross

Individual Income Tax Credits as Social Policy in Rural America, by Alan Berube

Spatial Variations in Factors Affecting Poverty: A Review of Literature, by Kathleen Miller and Jane Mosley

Practitioner Perspective

Brought Into Focus: The Factor of Mental Illness in a Rural Legal Services Practice, by Mary Irene Dickerson

Note

Promotion of a Commercially-Viable Microfinance Sector in Emerging Markets, by Aaron Jones

 


Volume XII, Number 3, Fall 2005

Articles

South Africa a Decade After Apartheid: Realizing Health Through Human Rights, by Jerome A. Singh, Michelle Govender, and Nilam Reddy

Community Development and the South Beach Success Story, by Michelle S. Viegas

Notes

Let's Stop Cheering, and Let's Get Practical: Reaching a Balanced Gentrification Agenda, by Isis Fernandez

It Takes a Village: Why Community Organizing is More Effective than Litigation Alone at Ending Discriminatory Housing Code
Enforcement, by Carla Dorsey

 


 

Volume XII, Number 2, Summer 2005

Article

Microcredit Extension in the Wake of Conflict: Rebuilding the Lives and Livelihoods of Women and Children Affected by War, by Lisa Avery

Editor’s note

Article

Equity Between the Public and Private Sectors: The Need for Compensatory Time Legislation for the Private Sector, by J. Marshall Wolman

Notes

Not Quite "Family Friendly": Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act to Provide Comp Time May Hurt Welfare Leavers and Their Families, by Melissa Felder

Systems of Oppression: The Collateral Consequences of Incarceration and Their Effects on Black Communities, by Margaret E. Finzen

Children Lost in the Drug War: A Call for Drug Policy Reform to Address the Comprehensive Needs of Family, by E. Michelle Tupper

 


 

Volume XII, Number 1, Spring 2005

Essay

Where Race Meets Class: The 21st Century Civil Rights Agenda, by Peter Edelman

Articles

Bureaucratic Disentitlement after Welfare Reform: Are Fair Hearings the Cure?, by Vicki Lens

Getting Beyond Yes to Collaborative Justice: The Role of Negotiation in Community Lawyering, by David Dominguez

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: The Triumph of School Choice over Racial Desegregation, by Nick Lewin

Notes

A Helping Hand: Full-Service Community Schools as a Model for Educating Low-Income Children, by Ron Lee

Fare or Unfair? The Importance of Mass Transit for America’s Poor, by Patrick Moulding

The Ghetto Prison: Federal Policy Responses to Racial and Economic Segregation, by Thaddeus J. Hackworth

 


 

Volume XI, Number 3, Fall 2004

Articles

Welfare and the Politics of Race: Same Tune, New Lyrics?, by Peter Edelman

Building Assets for Women: A Guide to Designing Individual Development Accounts for Low-Income Women, by Therese S. Leung

Restoring Justice: How Congress Can Amend the One-Strike Laws in Federally-Subsidized Public Housing to Ensure Due Process, Avoid Inequity, and Combat Crime, by Paul Stinson

Notes

The Homeless Mentally Ill and Guardianship: An Assessment of Current Issues in Guardianship and Possible Application to Homeless Mentally Ill Persons, by Neha Patel

The Forgotten Type of Capital: Addressing the Social Capital Deficiency in the Inner City, by Willie Brown

Teaching and Learning in the Face of School Violence, by Joseph Lintott

 

 

Revised June 27, 2006 (BEM)