In addition, she taught classes on state and federal domestic violence law. Her current position at GULP involves providing support services to domestic violence advocates across the state. These support services include research, case law updates, training, litigation assistance, legislative monitoring and coordinating and facilitating a statewide task force for domestic violence legal services advocates. That suit alleged that, in addition to segregation in the public housing program, minorities were effectively excluded by a system of residency preferences and geographic restrictions from obtaining Section 8 subsidies or using them outside of areas of high poverty and high minority concentration. The settlement also required adoption of cross-listing procedures between the two primary Section 8 providers and a referral system between the public housing and Section 8 program.
Implementation is still in progress.
Michael Hanley was appointed to the New York State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1994, and initiated an extensive examination of the equal opportunity issues surrounding the administration of the Section 8 program. 30, No. 2, Summer 1995. Edwin J. Lopez-Soto is a 1981 graduate of Cornell Law School and is a Staff Attorney with the Greater Upstate Law Project in Rochester, New York. Since 1985, Mr. Lopez-Soto has provided research, technical and litigation support to attorneys and paralegals as part of the statewide Social Security Disability Advocacy Project. Mr. Lopez-Soto is well known for his writing, lecturing and extensive knowledge of Social Security law.