Staff

Rachel Blake, Staff Attorney - Special Projects

Areas of Expertise: Rachel joined RHLS in May, 2007. She has expertise in a variety of real estate matters and nonprofit issues. Rachel is currently devoting the majority of her time to policy and innovative program initiatives.

Publications:

• "Chicago Apartment Building Foreclosures: Impact on Tenants" (coauthor, 2010)
• “Illegal Steering in America: Who’s At the Wheel?” (2007) in the Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law
• “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 (coauthor, 2006).
• “Affordable Assisted Living” (2005) in the Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law

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 earned an MBA in 2007 from The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.