
Peter H. Gilbert
Host: UNC Center for Civil Rights
Sponsor: Norflet Progress Fund
Provide representation to tenants’ associations and community based organizations working with tenants of properties timing out of subsidy in gentrifying DC neighborhoods, to preserve affordability and ensure compliance with fair housing, relocation, and landlord/tenant laws.
Because DC’s housing market is so strong, owners of subsidized housing projects in gentrifying neighborhoods want to convert these properties to market rates making them unaffordable for existing tenants who are largely African Americans. The District of Columbia’s 2012 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing recognized that if affordable housing is not preserved and expanded in gentrifying neighborhoods that there is a very real threat these neighborhoods will “re-segregate… as virtually all white.” This project has sought to use fair housing laws to prevent the displacement of low-income tenants of color from formerly subsidized properties.
In the past two years, Brook has:
Now that the Fellowship is complete, Brook plans to:
Host: UNC Center for Civil Rights
Sponsor: Norflet Progress Fund
Host: Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
Sponsor: Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Host: Greater Boston Legal Services
Sponsor: Anonymous, Martha Mazzone, Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc.
Host: Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc.
Sponsor: The Florida Bar Foundation
Current Fellow