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Capital & Main: The Great White Wall: Is Newport Beach Dodging California’s Fair Housing Law?

September 9, 2021 – Capital & Main’s Robin Urevich writes about Orange County’s efforts to desegregate and build more affordable housing. Managing Attorney Sam Tepperman-Gelfant is quoted.

“It has the potential to be transformative,” says Sam Tepperman-Gelfant, a managing attorney at the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates, because of new state fair housing law AB 686 and its requirement “that every local community look deeply at housing disparities for people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities and other protected classes.”

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