Tenant Right to Counsel Pipeline – Report Launch and Webinar

Since 2017, twenty-six jurisdictions have enacted laws providing a right to counsel for tenants facing eviction (TRTC). These programs help tenants and their families preserve housing stability while delivering significant benefits to communities. However, with an estimated 1,300 new housing attorney positions created across 16 of the TRTC jurisdictions alone, legal aid programs need to hire and retain enough attorneys to scale up to meet the growing demand.

Law schools play a critical role in the pipeline: their courses introduce students to housing justice, and their housing clinics prepare students for housing justice careers. To understand the landscape of clinical offerings and how they can be strengthened, New York Law School authored a report, “Building the Housing Justice Pipeline” based on a survey of 81 law schools across 37 states and D.C.

On December 5 at 2 PM ET, come learn about the report’s findings and recommendations from primary author, Erica Braudy, Clinic Coordinator of New York Law School’s Housing Rights Clinic and Deputy Director of Manhattan Legal Services’ Housing Unit. She will be joined by Andrew Scherer, NYLS Professor of Law and Policy Director of the Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law; Sarah Rhine, Deputy Director of the Community Legal Aid Society of Delaware; and Alyssa Bergsten, Housing Law Supervising Attorney at the Civil Rights & Housing Clinic at SUNY-University at Buffalo Law School.  Register now!