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Rachel Blake, Esq. Staff Attorney

Areas of Expertise: Rachel joined RHLS in May, 2007. She has expertise in a variety of real estate matters and is developing a specialty in facilitating capacity growth in new and small non-profit organizations.

Publications: Rachel authored “Affordable Assisted Living,” (2005) and “Illegal Steering in America: Who’s At the Wheel?” (2007) in the Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, and co-authored “Summary Report on International Eviction Laws” on behalf of the American Bar Association’s Section on Real Property, Probate & Estate Law’s Pro Bono Committee at the request of the ABA-UNDP International Legal Resource Center (ILRC), for the Kenyan office of United Nations Development Programme.

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Awards: The Pro Bono award from the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Bar Leadership Initiative was granted to Rachel in 2005 for helping to start an anti-predatory lending clinic in Pittsburgh. Rachel was also selected as a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Young Lawyers’ Division Leadership Initiative Class of 2003.

Experience and Education: Rachel practiced general real estate and affordable housing and community development law in large and mid-sized Pennsylvania firms for over five years prior to joining RHLS. She received her JD/MA (urban and regional planning) from the University of Iowa in 2001 and AB in Sociology from the University of Chicago. She is a recent graduate of The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University where she obtained her MBA.

   
   
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