ORREGO v. U.S. DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEV.

No. 88 C 1567.

701 F.Supp. 1384 (1988)

Rolando ORREGO, Nikolaos Iakovos, Nurul Chowdhury, Leonie Amaker, and Marta Mendez, individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. The UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD), Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., in his official capacity as Secretary of HUD, the Federal National Mortgage Association, the American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, as trustee under Trust No. 21438, the 833 Buena Joint Venture, an Illinois partnership, and Town Management Corporation, an Illinois corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

December 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Wilen, Daniel J. Burke, Alicia Alvarez, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, (Burke now with Chicago Community Development Corporation), Leslie Ann Jones, Edward Feldman, Northwestern University Legal Clinic, James P. Chapman, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Anton Valukas, U.S. Atty., Linda A. Wawzenski, Deputy Chief, Civil Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Chicago, Ill., Kim Kendrick, Trial Atty., John W. Herold, Asst. Gen. Counsel, U.S. Dept. of HUD, Washington, D.C., for defendant U.S. Dept of HUD.

Ronald Butler, James I. Rubin, Ellen M. Babbitt, Sue Payne, Kevin J. O'Brien, Butler Rubin Newcomer Saltarelli & Boyd, Chicago, Ill., for private defendants.

Edna Selan Epstein, Shalom L. Kohn, Robert J. Harris, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., for Fannie Mae.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, District Judge.

For the last half century Congress has made periodic efforts to provide housing assistance to the nation's low and moderate income families. Congressional measures in large part have been incremental, springing from historical contexts that present pending crises. Federal endeavors began in response to widespread mortgage foreclosures, the drying up of mortgage credit and the lack of construction activity created...

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