The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, Third Edition

Tim Iglesias is a Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Before teaching he spent six years assisting non-profit affordable housing developers obtain local government approvals in the face of community opposition. Tim teaches property, land use, and housing discrimination. He writes in the areas of affordable housing law, fair housing law and housing theory. Rochelle E. Lento is a member at Dykema Gossett PLLC in Detroit, spearheading the firm’s affordable housing practice in the Real Estate Group. She has worked in the area of affordable housing in Michigan and the Midwest for the past 30 years; representing primarily nonprofit developers, public housing commissions, and lenders. Rochelle has concentrated her practice on the development of real estate with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit, CDBG and HOME, the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) Program ,and various HUD financing tools. She is a former chair of the ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, chair of the Publications Committee, and co-editor of prior editions of this book. Rigel Oliveri is the Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law at the University of Missouri. She is a nationally recognized expert on housing discrimination law. Her scholarship focuses on housing discrimination, residential segregation, zoning and property rights, and sexual harassment. Prior to teaching she served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division in the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section. She currently serves as a commissioner for the Columbia Housing Authority in Columbia, Missouri.