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 Murphy' exception to the Fair House Act for dwellings occupied by four families or less should be repealed.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.

Laws, regulations and rules, Landlord and tenant, Landlord-tenant relations, Freedom of association, Housing discrimination

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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.

Analysis, Globalization, Territories and possessions

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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.

Statistical Data Included, Research, Evaluation, Social services, Social service, Telephone surveys, Awareness, Social surveys

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