Evictions Task Force News Today

Rita Wilkerson waited three years for the Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis to fix her leaking sink.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Rita Wilkerson waited three years for the Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis to fix her leaking sink.

Outreach is the latest phase in the implementation of a 2021 state law establishing the right to free legal representation for low-income tenants facing eviction in Maryland.The law covers tenants in households earning up to half the state’s median income, or about $64,000 for a family of four, who are threatened with eviction. Attorneys and organizers emphasized that help is available for tenants before the process progresses that far.

Maryland is only the second state to have a program that provides access to legal representation to all income-qualified persons facing eviction on a statewide basis.

Oct. 19, 2022 10 a.m. REGISTER Sponsored by: Panelists: Reena Shah Executive Director, Maryland Access to Justice Commission Reena Shah: A longtime advocate of social justice and social change, Reena Shah has served as executive director of the Maryland Access to Justice Commission (A2JC) since November 2015. She was recently named by Attorney General Brian ...

/PRNewswire/ -- The Maryland Access to Justice Commission, powered by the Maryland State Bar Association, is pleased to announce the release of the Housing...

/PRNewswire/ -- The Maryland Access to Justice Commission, powered by the Maryland State Bar Association, is pleased to announce the release of the Housing...

Maryland's access to counsel program for low-income renters facing eviction has won two years of funding, a victory for advocates.

COVID-19 created a health, economic and civil justice crisis. Even before the pandemic, only a small percentage of Marylanders (about 20%) received the help they needed to navigate the civil justice system, resulting in threats to their housing, safety and economic security, not because they did anything wrong, but because they did have the legal ...

M. Natalie Mcsherry Principal Kramon & Graham, P.A. Accomplished trial lawyer M. Natalie McSherry hasn’t forgotten the key role of the rule of law in American society and government. “We must both help the public have access to and understand the legal system and courts, and at the same time work to improve the application ...