Volume 17 (1979) Symposium: Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms to Landlord-Tenant Problems
This issue, atypical in format from other issues of the Urban Law Annual, is a special symposium volume exclusively devoted to exploring alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to landlord-tenant problems. It represents the first comprehensive publication on this important subject. Descriptions and evaluations of resolution systems are included with particular emphasis on judicial resolution in various jurisdictions. The first article by Randall W. Scott, Director of the National Housing Justice and Field Assistance Program, offers a summary and analysis of the area.
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Commentary
Housing Courts and Housing Justice: An Overview
Randall W. Scott
Judicial Resolutions
The New York City Housing Court—An Evaluation
Leonard N. Cohen
Housing Court: The New York Tenant Experience
Emily Jane Goodman
The Hampden County Housing Court: An Overview
Edward C. Peck Jr.
Housing Specialists in the Hampden County Housing Court
Carl E. Croteau Sr.
Chicago's Eviction Court: A Tenant's Court of No Resort
Julian R. Birnbaum, Nancy B. Collins, and Anthony J. Fusco Jr.
The Chicago Experience
Esther R. Rothstein
The Housing Court of Pittsburgh
Alan S. Penkower
The Los Angeles Landlord-Tenant Court
Norman L. Epstein
An Alternative to a Housing Court
James D. Rogers
The Hartford-New Britain Judicial District Housing Court
Arthur L. Spada
The Buffalo Housing Court: A Special Court for Special Needs
Anthony P. Lo Russo
The Indianapolis Environmental Court
David A. Jester
Non-Judicial Resolutions
Mountain View Rental Housing Mediation—A Grass Roots Program
Janie V. Warman
Landlord-Tenant Mediation Project in Colorado
David M. Ebel
The San Jose Housing Service Center
Jeremy Fogel
Dispute Resolution in a Community Association
James J. Scavo
‘HOW’ Settles Consumer Disputes
Lester B. Wolff, Benne Straughn Herbert, and Maggie Riechers