Report finds racial disparity in evictions, calls for right to counsel
06/02/2020
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Massachusetts
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Report
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A report from City Life/Vida Urbana finds that 78% of Massachusetts eviction filings suspended due to COVID-19 are in neighborhoods of color.
The report names right to counsel as one key policy reformm observes that 8% of Boston tenants have counsel compared to 85% of landlords, and points out that a past MA study (https://bit.ly/2BAkdsW) found tenants w/full rep stayed in their homes 2x as often.
