Advocates at town hall want right to counsel for LA tenants facing eviction
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Attendees at a town hall called on the city and county of Los Angeles to join other cities in guaranteeing a lawyer to those facing eviction.
LA Times Editorial: Support funding for civil counsel in California
Tens of thousands of Californians who otherwise would have been at grave risk of losing their homes, their children, their ability to pursue a living or other basic human rights and needs at least had a fighting chance to defend themselves in court because of landmark 2009 legislation that gave them access to lawyers.
LA Times Editorial: L.A. renters deserve a “right to counsel” for evictions
Here’s one way to help ease Los Angeles’ homeless crisis: Give poor, vulnerable tenants lawyers to help them fight unjust evictions. Why? Because it’s often easier, cheaper and more humane to help people stay in their homes than it is to get them back on their feet after they have become homeless.
LA Times Editorial: Better access to legal representation is crucial — even in civil cases
No person in the United States can be put on trial for their life or liberty, or indeed any criminal penalty down to the smallest traffic fine, without access to a lawyer to provide expert assistance. That principle was established by the 6th Amendment in 1789, although the actual right to counsel remained spotty until Clarence Earl Gideon’s case famously went to the Supreme Court in 1963. The Gideon ruling established that any criminal defendant in any court had a right to an appointed lawyer if they couldn’t afford one themselves.
UCLA Law Clinic Issues groundbreaking Housing Crisis Report
Rising rents have caused unprecedented housing insecurity in Los Angeles County, according to an in-depth report that UCLA School of Law students and faculty prepared with attorneys at Public Counsel.
Curbed LA: New report underscores link between ‘shocking’ number of evictions, homelessness
More than a half million renters have been evicted in Los Angeles County over the past eight years, according to a new report by Public Counsel and the UCLA School of Law that calls on county supervisors to adopt permanent rent control measures.
Fox 11 News: L.A. County considers funding eviction defense for low-income renters
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to consider funding legal representation for low-income renters at risk of eviction.
Univision: Proponen program de asistencia legal para inquilinos en proceso de desalojo
Siendo el condado con más desalojos en toda California, autoridades locales de Los Ángeles trabajan en un plan de servicios que beneficiará a los inquilinos ante los procesos que los dejan en las calles.
