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 ...

Studies show across the country that tenants who face eviction come out with a favorable outcome 90% of the time if their community has right to counsel. Right to counsels. When a community ...

But the tide is starting to turn with a number of places implementing right-to-counsel programs that offer tenants free legal representation. Studies have shown that such programs are able to keep ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.