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Feb. 23, 2009

Playing House With the Bar

For too long, there has been virtually no relationship between fair housing advocacy and the real property practice at the bar, writes Phyllis W. Cheng.

FORUM COLUMN

By Phyllis W. Cheng

In the 1964 Burt Bacharach hit song "A House Is Not A Home," Dionne Warwick sang: "But a room is not a house and a house is not a home when the two of us are far apart." So too are these lyrics applicable to the historic absence of a relationship between fair housing advocacy and the real property practice at the bar.

Why would fair housing need a home at the bar? After all, since the Rumford Fair Housing ...

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