Rethinking the Fee Simple in Rural America
Publication Date
10-21-2021
Document Type
Article
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Sturm College of Law
Keywords
Rural housing, Climate change, Slaughterhouses, Racial justice
Abstract
Newly released census data reveals that our rural places continue to shrink. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report cements that climate change is widespread and intensifying. The pandemic has hit hard in rural places, with outbreaks centered around slaughterhouses, which predominantly employ people of color. At the same time, the country as a whole is reckoning with issues of racial justice.
All of these issues surface in Professor Jessica Shoemaker’s latest article, Fee Simple Failures: Rural Landscapes and Race. The article examines ways that property law has created and perpetuated serious problems with the rural agricultural land tenure system.
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Sarah Schindler, Rethinking the Fee Simple in Rural America, Jotwell (Oct. 21, 2021), https://property.jotwell.com/rethinking-the-fee-simple-in-rural-america/.