The Housing and Development Law Institute (HDLI) is a nationwide non-profit membership organization that serves as a legal resource for stakeholders in the affordable and public housing industry. HDLI is the only national organization solely addressing the legal, rather than the policy or administrative, issues facing public housing and redevelopment agencies. HDLI provides a wide variety of unique services in support of its members. HDLI publishes legal periodicals, prepares annual reviews of important cases facing housing agencies across the country, publishes the only existing index to Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations (HUD Regulations), conducts conferences and other educational activities, provides legal training and individualized counseling, sponsors an active and enlightening list serve, and serves as a friend of the court, or amicus, in appropriate cases important to its members.



HDLI Membership:

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HDLI Training:

HDLI is available to conduct personalized Fair Housing Training on-site at your agency. Contact HDLI as soon as possible to secure your preferred dates. Fair Housing Training is also available for private companies.

HDLI Education:

Since 1984, HDLI has worked to enlighten its members with respect to the broad range of legal aspects of state and federal housing law and policy, some of which include the agencies’ legal obligations and rights concerning:

•  agency employment law issues
•  community service requirements
•  criminal and sex offender background checks
•   resident and non-resident agency commissioners
•   resident relocation
•  evictions
•  nonprofit affiliates
•  resident-owned businesses
•  fair housing
•  resident group and community involvement and participation
•  contracting
•  legal and commissioner ethics
•  single and multi-layered financing
•  development and redevelopment under state, federal, and private funding  programs
•  tenant and project based section 8 - subsidies, vouchers, screening and  admissions
•  security
•  resident health
•  legally managing and disciplining union and non-union employees
•  administrative issues
•  resident and employee disabilities and reasonable accommodations
•  utilities and satellite dishes
•  litigation against public housing and redevelopment agencies

CURRENT CONFERENCES AND TRAINING INFORMATION

HDLI Membership/Board of Directors. In 2012, HDLI’s membership consists of more than 200 public housing and redevelopment agencies, law firms and companies that serve public housing agencies across the United States.  HDLI’s prestigious board of directors is composed of executive directors of public housing agencies, as well as the housing attorneys who represent those agencies.

HDLI caters to small, medium, and large agencies.  The business affairs of HDLI are managed by HDLI’s Executive Director and General Counsel and staff.

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Housing and Development Law Institute; 630 Eye Street, NW; Washington, D.C., 20001-3736; Phone: 202-289-3400; Fax 202-289-3401 E-mail: hdli@hdli.org