Legal aid, community groups begin outreach on free eviction counsel
Rita Wilkerson waited three years for the Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis to fix her leaking sink.
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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.
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