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The Land: Rob Fischer, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, discussed the historic law requiring landlords to have rental properties built before 1978 certified as lead safe.