Redefining the American Dream

Andrea J. Boyack, American Dream in Flux: The Endangered Right to Lease a Home, 49 Real Prop. Tr. & Est. L. J. 203 (2014), available at SSRN.

Tanya Marsh

The “American Dream” referred to by Andrea Boyack, an Associate Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law, is homeownership. As first year Property students are taught, the dream of homeownership has its hallowed roots in Thomas Jefferson’s conviction that widespread ownership of real property was a predicate for a functioning democracy. “The small […]