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.
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.
Educational Services: 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
resident lease-up, occupancy, preferences, and waiting lists
community service requirements
criminal and sex offender background checks
resident and non-resident agency commissioners
resident relocation
evictions
nonprofit affiliates
resident-owned businesses
homeownership
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
Limited English Proficiency (LEP) requirements
utilities and satellite dishes
litigation against public housing and redevelopment agencies
HDLI Membership/Board
of Directors. In 2008, HDLI’s
membership consists of more than 230 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.