Housing and Development Law
Institute ("HDLI") is a national nonprofit member organization
whose mission is to serve as a legal resource to public housing
and redevelopment agencies, their developers and legal counsel.
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 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
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.