Reaching Mrs. Murphy: a call for repeal of the Mrs. Murphy exception to the Fair Housing Act
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The 'Mrs. Murphy' exception to the Fair House Act for dwellings occupied by four families or less should be repealed. Repeal would prohibit rejecting a prospective tenant on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, family status, or national origin. Mrs. Murphy landlords lack First Amendment 'freedom of association' interests; such a claimed right is really a claim of a right to discriminate. Landlords could still challenge the law, as applied to them, on narrow, nondiscriminatory grounds.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1999
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Territory and territoriality in a globalizing world
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Jean Gottmann explored the importance to evolving societies of the division of the earth's surface into bounded territories associated with sovereign states. It is indicate that territoriality continues to be a widely-deployed strategy therefore an increasing range of contexts and situations are described that give the importance of the strategy in the spatial structuring of a globalizing world.
Publication Name: EKISTICS: the problems and science of HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0013-2942
Year: 2003
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UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING RESPONSE BIAS IN NEEDS ASSESSMENT STUDIES
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The author examines a study of recognition bias of services agencies and resulting over estimation of true community awareness. Information regarding data collection, measurement of bias, and interpretation of results are provided.
Publication Name: Evaluation Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0193-841X
Year: 1999
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