The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) provides financial assistance to low-income workers through a refundable tax credit. The EITC, which has received strong bipartisan support since its introduction in 1975, now represents the nation's largest anti-poverty program for non-elderly individuals. In...

Only one in four eligible households receives some form of rental assistance from the federal government. Nonetheless, there is no time limit for the receipt of this assistance; individuals can continue to receive benefits as long as they satisfy eligibility requirements. In addition, individuals...

In Regulating Sharing: The Sharing Economy as an Alternative Capitalist System, Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand challenges the assumption – implicit in the fast-growing legal literature on the “sharing economy” – that companies in this sector operate in the manner of traditional firms....

The existing stock of affordable rental housing falls significantly short of the need in many areas of the country. In addition, available housing frequently does not match the specific needs of prospective tenants, which have changed as household sizes shrink, more people are living alone, and...

This symposium essay applies insights from Professor Lee Fennell's Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life to two distinct issues in zoning and land use regulation. The first is the use of transferable development rights (TDRs). TDRs provide an ideal vehicle for considering...

This is a draft of the table of contents and introduction of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook on the Law of the Sharing Economy (2018). The handbook grapples conceptually and practically with what the sharing economy – which includes entities ranging from large for- profit firms like Airbnb,...

Land use and planning law, which to the uninitiated might appear a dry and technical subject, has received increased (and well-deserved) attention in recent years. Land use regulations significantly affect pressing local and national concerns, including housing supply and affordability, regional...

This Article builds upon prior work providing an intellectual and legal history of the early development of single-family zoning. In the early twentieth century proponents of zoning sought to justify what was arguably the most controversial component of zoning ordinances: districts restricted...