St. Thomas Law Review
First Page
459
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Part II of this Article provides the reader with background on the current state of federal affordable housing and community development law. It describes what President Clinton is inheriting from prior administrations as well as the new administration's affordable housing and community development agenda. In short, Part II describes the enormity of the challenge facing the legal community. In Part III, I describe a personal experience from my own background as a lawyer serving a group of low-income tenants struggling to preserve their housing. The purpose of the story is to provide some indication of the types of non-traditional skills involved in such law practice and, by so doing, to illustrate how little we still know about legal education and lawyering. Ultimately, my point is that the legal community is not prepared to meet the challenge presented by President Clinton's affordable housing and community development agenda or by any other progressive strategy designed to improve the lives of low income people. Thus, in the most literal sense, the greatest struggle in our lives in the present day remains how to close the gap between our words and our deeds.
Recommended Citation
Mark Andrew Sherman,
Words, Deeds and the Work We Still Know So Little About,
5
St. Thomas L. Rev.
459
(1993).
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