{"id":2028,"date":"2017-07-06T14:19:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/?page_id=2614"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:28:49","slug":"housing-lawcommunity-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/career-exploration-professional-development\/for-jd-students\/explore-legal-careers\/practice-areas\/housing-lawcommunity-economic-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Law\/Community Economic Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers in housing law and economic development may serve clients dealing with housing issues by helping them through the litigation or negotiation process, or be involved in responsible financial service-related policy work. These fields are closely intertwined, and frequently work together in advocacy campaign coalitions. Lawyers in housing and economic development often work in non-profit organizations or with federal, state and local government agencies.<\/p>\n<h2>What to Do If You Are Interested in Housing Law?<\/h2>\n<h3>Georgetown Law Courses<\/h3>\n<p>Local Government Law<br \/>\nRace and American Law<br \/>\nLaw and Regulation of Drugs<br \/>\nFederal Money and Policymaking<\/p>\n<h3>Georgetown Law Clinics<\/h3>\n<p>Affordable Housing Transactions Clinic (Harrison Institute for Public Law)<br \/>\nCommunity Justice Project<\/p>\n<h3>Helpful Housing Law\/Community Economic Development Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/public_services\/homelessness_poverty.html\">ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/affordable_housing.html\">ABA Forum on Housing and Community Development Law<\/a> include resources, new housing\/homelessness initiatives and links to educate lawyers about opportunities in homelessness, housing and poverty law.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitychange.org\/\">Center for Community Change<\/a>\u00a0connects grassroots and community-based organizations around advocacy campaigns in many areas connected with housing and economic justice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncrc.org\/about\/\">National Community Reinvestment Coalition<\/a> was founded to develop and harness the collective energies of community reinvestment organizations from across the country so as to increase the flow of private capital into traditionally underserved communities.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neighborworks.org\/About-Us\">NeighborWorks America<\/a> explains the work of one of the preeminent leaders in affordable housing and community development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Representative Employers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsiblelending.org\/\">Center for Responsible Lending<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhlp.org\/supportnhlp\">National Housing Law Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hud.gov\/program_offices\/general_counsel\">U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office (HUD), Office of General Counsel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers in housing law and economic development may serve clients dealing with housing issues by helping them through the litigation or negotiation process, or be involved in responsible financial service-related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":745,"menu_order":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-2028","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34426,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2028\/revisions\/34426"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}