He was inspired to join Maryland Legal Aid after both the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland passed laws in 2021 guaranteeing the right to counsel for low-income tenants facing eviction.

One promising intervention is implementing a right to counsel in housing court. Policy makers who establish such a right commit to ensuring that eligible individuals facing threat of eviction are ...

The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to establish a long-debated “Right to Counsel” ordinance, which aims to provide free attorneys to low-income tenants facing eviction. Tenant rights ...

Los Angeles City Council members have voted to put the “right” back into the city’s proposal for a tenant’s “right to counsel” in eviction court, overriding an earlier draft that ...

Connecticut is currently weighing whether to provide $2 million in additional federal funding for the state’s tenant right to counsel program. We at the National Coalition for a Civil Right to ...

The city's Right to Counsel program provides free legal representation to tenants who end up in eviction court. Program leaders say it's working. It used to be common for Kansas City renters who ...

More than a month after advocates successfully lobbied for the implementation of a right-to-counsel program for Jersey City tenants, their main opponents — the landlords — are pushing back in ...

It’s also at risk of ending in the next two years. Connecticut’s right to counsel program launched in 2022 with $20 million in federal COVID relief money through the American Rescue Plan Act.

Rather, it’s getting worse. A grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development could fund a right-to-counsel program in Oklahoma if local lawmakers are willing to ...

Organizers who pushed for a right to counsel for tenants facing eviction gathered in front of City Hall to celebrate as the policy went into effect Wednesday — and to call for more ...