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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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Legal aid, community groups begin outreach on Maryland s free eviction counsel law

Legal aid, community groups begin outreach on Maryland s free eviction counsel law
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As evictions mount, so do Legal Aid defenses

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

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Legal aid, community groups begin outreach on free eviction counsel

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.

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Urgent need for a stable and continuous source of funding

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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