Professor Quigley Shares Expertise on State Housing Crisis in IndyStar Op-Ed and WFYI Report
10/13/2025
IU McKinney Professor Fran Quigley, J.D. ’87, has been sharing his expertise on Indiana’s eviction crisis with Indianapolis-based media. Professor Quigley wrote an op-ed column for the Indianapolis Star on how the state should consider rent controls in an effort to alleviate the housing crisis. He also talked how about courts could reduce the eviction filing rate in Indiana with public radio station WFYI. Professor Quigley is one of the authors of a report titled “Too Fast, Too Easy: How Indiana Courts Are Fueling Our Eviction Crisis.”
Professor Quigley has drawn on his experience and that of the students in the Housing, Health and Human Rights Clinic for his latest book, Lessons from Eviction Court: How We Can End Our Housing Crisis. Through the clinic, he and IU McKinney students have been working to assist tenants facing eviction since 2020. The book contends that evictions and homelessness do not need to happen. In fact, the United States is the only nation of its kind where such a high number of families are evicted from their homes and have nowhere to turn for housing.
Professor Quigley teaches in the Housing, Health, and Human Rights Clinic, where students advocate for the rights of the poor, with a focus on individual and systemic barriers to accessing healthcare and the social determinants of health. Professor Quigley is the author of several academic journal articles on social justice and human rights, multiple mass media articles and columns, and five books including this most recent work. Prior to his work at the law school, he served as the first Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Julia Carson and as the executive director of ACLU of Indiana. He edits the newsletter Housing is a Human Right.
