Housing – Voices for Civil Justice

So you want to lower your rent? Here’s how to negotiate

Explainer, News Story (NATIONAL)

So you want to lower your rent? Here’s how to negotiate

September 25, 2020 | Anna Bahney | CNN Business
Vacancy rates are rising for rental homes and apartments in cities across the country -- and that puts renters in a prime spot to negotiate.
Tags: COVID-19 | Housing | Housing: Landlord-Tenant

Metaphors From Housing Court

Cartoon (NATIONAL)

Metaphors From Housing Court

September 23, 2020 | Margaret Hagan | Nation, The
The looming eviction crisis due to Covid-19.
Tags: COVID-19 | Housing | Housing: Eviction

Providing lawyers to Baltimore tenants facing eviction could pay for itself

Editorial (Maryland)

Providing lawyers to Baltimore tenants facing eviction could pay for itself

May 19, 2020 | Baltimore Sun
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