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Tenant right to counsel (TRTC) guarantees that eligible tenants will be provided legal representation, especially when tenants face eviction. Without a right to counsel, tenants are represented by lawyers around 3% of the time on average, whereas landlords have legal representation in 84% of cases.
Other advocates called for permanent legal protections like right to counsel for tenants or eviction diversion programs to resolve evictions before they reach the courts.
Stout estimated that Oklahoma County and Tulsa County realized economic benefits of $6.3 million from the right-to-counsel program between August 1, 2022 and June 5, 2024.
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson say tenants being forced to represent themselves in housing court undermines the city’s “Right to Counsel” law.
In June 2018, San Francisco implemented a "Right to Counsel" program guaranteeing legal representation to tenants facing eviction. [39] Currently, the Los Angeles City Counsel is considering "Right To Counsel" legislation that may look very similar to those being enacted in New York and San Francisco. [40] [needs update]
After the 2018 elections – in which Democrats took control of the New York State Senate for the first time in a decade and just the third time in 50 years [2] – momentum began on behalf of changes to landlord-tenant law. [3] [4] Eventually, a package of nine bills emerged which incorporated a large number of proposed changes. [5]
A federal rental assistance program implemented to help struggling families during the COVID-19 pandemic is running short of money after barely more than a year, leaving renters in some parts of ...
The Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) is a federal program that is administered by the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The FHAP program provides funding annually on a noncompetitive basis to State and local agencies that enforce fair housing laws that are substantially ...