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Philadelphia launches a new financial assistance program to help resolve landlord-tenant disputes over back rent before they become the basis of an eviction filing.

More Philly renters with low income will be able to get free legal representation. The program is designed to help those at risk of losing their homes to eviction.

The City of Philadelphia is expanding its Right to Counsel initiative to include two more zip codes. Starting Feb. 1, eligible tenants living in zip codes 19134 and 19144 are entitled to free legal representation if they are facing eviction.

Gauthier delivered remarks to a crowd of over 200 at the Christy Recreational Center in West Philadelphia.

By requiring landlords to enter mediation before filing eviction cases, the city’s eviction diversion program has successfully kept thousands of people at risk for displacement in their homes.

By steering tenants away from eviction proceedings, Philadelphia’s eviction diversion program isn't just saving people's credit – it's saving lives.

The program is guided by one goal: To settle disagreements between landlords and tenants outside of court and without an eviction filing.