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Abstract: 

This review article summarizes the findings and conclusions in the articles, “Preserving Elders’ Housing Rights”, Michael Allen and Susan Ann Silverstein, 39 Trial 32 (Oct. 2003); “Waking Rip van Winkle: Why Developments in the Last 20 Years Should Teach the Mental Health System Not to Use Housing as a Tool of Coercion”, Michael Allen. 21 Behav. Sci. and the Law 503 (2003); “Managing Local Opposition to Affordable Housing: A New Approach to NIMBY”, by Tim Iglesias, 12 J. of Affordable Housing and Comm. Devel. Law 78 (Fall 2002); and the website “Fair Housing Information Sheets”, from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.

Keywords: housing discrimination litigation on behalf of seniors; bundling of therapeutic services with housing; strategic responses to neighborhood opposition to group homes

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