Editorial
(NATIONAL)
Tags: Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Housing: Eviction
The Coming Eviction Crisis: ‘It’s Hard to Pay the Bills on Nothing’
August 9, 2020 | New York Times (NYT)Tags: Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Housing: Eviction
Journalism Type: Editorial
Don’t leave renters in limbo, Gov. DeSantis. Extend Florida’s moratorium on evictions
Editorial
(Florida)
Tags: Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Housing: Eviction
Don’t leave renters in limbo, Gov. DeSantis. Extend Florida’s moratorium on evictions
July 28, 2020 | Miami HeraldTags: Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Housing: Eviction
Providing lawyers to Baltimore tenants facing eviction could pay for itself
Editorial
(Maryland)
The one absolute requirement to comply with a stay-at-home or safer-at-home order is a home. Yet access to that very critical living necessity is in jeopardy for millions of Americans who’ve been forced out of work by coronavirus and now face mounting bills and past due rents.
Tags: Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Housing | Housing: Eviction | Housing: Right to Counsel
Providing lawyers to Baltimore tenants facing eviction could pay for itself
May 19, 2020 | Baltimore SunThe one absolute requirement to comply with a stay-at-home or safer-at-home order is a home. Yet access to that very critical living necessity is in jeopardy for millions of Americans who’ve been forced out of work by coronavirus and now face mounting bills and past due rents.
Tags: Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Housing | Housing: Eviction | Housing: Right to Counsel
Millions of Americans Are About to Lose Their Homes. Congress Must Help Them.
Editorial
(NATIONAL)
Tags: Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Housing: Eviction
Millions of Americans Are About to Lose Their Homes. Congress Must Help Them.
July 23, 2020 | New York Times (NYT)Tags: Coronavirus | COVID-19 | Housing: Eviction
Fully funding eviction defense is the fiscally responsible thing to do
Editorial
(Pennsylvania)
Housing issues go beyond how expensive it is to rent or buy in the city, but also how to provide more stability among homeowners and tenants in the places they currently occupy.
Tags: Housing: Eviction | Housing: Right to Counsel
Fully funding eviction defense is the fiscally responsible thing to do
March 14, 2019 | Philadelphia InquirerHousing issues go beyond how expensive it is to rent or buy in the city, but also how to provide more stability among homeowners and tenants in the places they currently occupy.
Tags: Housing: Eviction | Housing: Right to Counsel
Mass. residents facing eviction deserve legal representation
Editorial
(Massachusetts)
The legislature held a hearing in July to review a trio of bills that would enact a right-to-counsel law for certain eligible cases in housing court. A few cities have a similar law, but no other state does — Massachusetts would be the first.
Tags: Housing: Right to Counsel
Mass. residents facing eviction deserve legal representation
November 6, 2019 | Boston GlobeThe legislature held a hearing in July to review a trio of bills that would enact a right-to-counsel law for certain eligible cases in housing court. A few cities have a similar law, but no other state does — Massachusetts would be the first.
Tags: Housing: Right to Counsel
Ensure legal fairness: Detained immigrants deserve representation
Editorial
(Pennsylvania)
U.S. courts are supposed to be guided by fairness with due process for all. But in deportation hearings in Pennsylvania and throughout the country, detained immigrants are currently not guaranteed legal representation, leaving many alone in facing government attorneys.
Tags: Immigration
Ensure legal fairness: Detained immigrants deserve representation
October 10, 2019 | Pittsburgh Post-GazetteU.S. courts are supposed to be guided by fairness with due process for all. But in deportation hearings in Pennsylvania and throughout the country, detained immigrants are currently not guaranteed legal representation, leaving many alone in facing government attorneys.
Tags: Immigration