Detroit’s Right to Counsel ordinance was supposed to take effect last October, ensuring that low-income residents have a lawyer when they’re facing eviction.
A city of Detroit program designed to get legal representation to residents at risk of eviction is likely to start in March, six months after it was originally slated to begin.City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a $5 million contract with United Community Housing Coalition as part of the…
Detroit has named a director for its new Office of Eviction Defense.April Faith-Slaker, the associate director of the Access to Justice Lab at Harvard Law School, will be the executive director of the new department, while Dylon Adrine, a process improvement consultant with the city, will be the…