Eviction Right to Counsel Resource Center
Eviction Right to Counsel Resource Center
A compilation of resources related to the eviction process, housing instability, racial bias, the impacts and economic costs of eviction, and legislation and other resources related to a right to counsel for tenants facing eviction.
Stout’s Transformative Change consultants have collected resources to assist our clients and their communities with understanding the eviction process, its impacts, and impactful solutions to combat the eviction crisis that cities large and small are facing.
- New York City Stout Report - The Financial Cost and Benefits of Establishing a Right to Counsel in Eviction Proceedings Under Intro 214-A
- Baltimore Stout Report - The Economic Impact of an Eviction Right to Counsel in Baltimore City
- Philadelphia Stout Report - Economic Return on Investment of Providing Counsel in Philadelphia Eviction Cases for Low-Income Tenants
- Los Angeles Stout Report - Cost-Benefit Analysis of Providing a Right to Counsel to Tenants in Eviction Proceedings
- Stout Report on Cost-Benefit of Delaware Right to Counsel for Evictions Defense
- The Estimated Cost of Universal Access to Eviction Counsel in Pennsylvania
- Cleveland Eviction Right to Counsel Annual Independent Evaluation
- The Estimated Cost of an Eviction Right to Counsel Outside of New York City
- The Estimated Economic Impact of an Eviction Right to Counsel in Detroit
- Connecticut Eviction Right to Counsel Annual Independent Evaluation (2022)
- Evaluation of Cook County (Chicago) Early Resolution Program
- Cleveland Eviction Right to Counsel Annual Independent Evaluation (2022)
- Eviction Free Milwaukee: Annual Independent Evaluation
- The Estimated Economic Impact of an Eviction Right to Counsel in South Carolina
- Assessment of Maryland’s Need for Eviction Prevention Funds (EPF) and Directional Fiscal Impacts of EPF
- Stout’s Independent Evaluation of Nashville’s Eviction Right to Counsel Pilot – First Interim Report
- Cleveland Eviction Right to Counsel Annual Independent Evaluation (2023)
- Connecticut Eviction Right to Counsel Annual Independent Evaluation (2023)
- The Economic Impact of an Eviction Access to Counsel in Chattanooga and Hamilton County
- Stout’s Independent Evaluation of Oklahoma County and Tulsa County Eviction Right to Counsel Pilot Programs
- The Estimated Economic Impact of an Eviction Right to Counsel in Columbus and Franklin County
- Implementing New York City's Universal Access to Counsel Program: Lessons for Other Jurisdictions
- NYC Right to Counsel: First year results and potential for expansion
- 2019 Survey of NYC Housing Staff Attorneys (a project of the Pipeline Working Group of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition)
- Universal Access to Legal Services: A Report on Year One of Implementation in New York City
- Universal Access to Legal Services: A Report on Year Two of Implementation in New York City
- NYC Office of Civil Justice Annual Report – 2019
- Universal Access to Legal Services: A Report on Year Three of Implemental in New York City
- Right to Counsel for Indigent Tenants: Implementation Plan (Washington State)
- Universal Access to Legal Services: A Report on Year Four of Implemental in New York City
- City of Boulder 2021 Eviction Prevention and Rental Assistance Services Annual Report
- The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court: Evidence from New York City's Universal Access Program
- Legal Representation in Evictions - Comparative Study
- Legal Aid Society of Columbus: Tenant Advocacy Project Evaluation
- D.C.’s Housing Right to Counsel Pilot Project
- Housing Court, Evictions and Homelessness: The Costs and Benefits of Establishing a Right to Counsel
- The Impact of Legal Counsel on Outcomes for Poor Tenants in New York City's Housing Court: Results of a Randomized Experiment
- San Francisco Right to Counsel Pilot Program Documentation Report
- The Impact of Counsel: An Analysis of Empirical Evidence
- All About California's Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Pilot Projects
- Evaluation of the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act (AB 590)
- Housing Help Program: Homelessness Prevention Pilot Final Report
- The Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation – Standing With Our Neighbors Program
- Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act Evaluation 2020
- Delaware’s Home4Good Social Return on Investment of Eviction Prevention
General Eviction
- How Many People are Really Evicted in SF Every Year?
- Eviction Notices in San Francisco Down for the First Time Since 2010
- Facing Eviction Alone: A Study of Evictions in Denver 2014-2016
- Eviction in Kansas City
- The $132k Idea that could Reduce Bangor's Eviction Problem
- Dismissed - Tenants Lose, Landlords Win in Baltimore's Rent Court
- The Eviction Study’s Baltimore Map
- Evictions in Minneapolis
- The Eviction Machine Churning Through New York City
- Evicted in Buffalo: The High Cost of Involuntary Mobility
- "You are being asked to leave the premises": A Study of Eviction In Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio
- Households Experiencing Eviction in Cleveland: A Mixed Methods Study of Cases in Cleveland Housing Court
- New Research Reveals Depth of Philadelphia's Eviction Crisis
- Mayor's Taskforce on Eviction: Prevention and Response
- Policy Brief: Evictions in Philadelphia
- Evictions in Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Narrowing the Gap Report
- Seattle: The Cost of Eviction and Unpaid Bills of Financially Insecure Families for City Budgets.
- Report Details Dramatic Effect of Having Counsel in Seattle Evictions
- Evicted in Hawai'i: Lives Hanging in the Balance
- Durham Eviction Crisis: What the city's going to spend on it
- Greensboro’s Eviction Crisis: Qualitative Interviews and Observations
- Social Impact Measurement of CommonBond's Eviction Prevention Activities
- The State of Evictions: Results from the University of Washington Evictions Project
- Unaffordable America: Poverty, Housing, and Eviction
- Housing and Employment Insecurity among the Working Poor
- A Place to Call Home: The Case for Increased Federal Investments in Affordable Housing
- Eviction's Fallout: Housing, Hardship, and Health
- Who Can Afford to Live in a Home?: A Look at Data from the 2006 American Community Survey
- Projecting Trends in Severely Cost-Burdened Renters: 2015-2025
- Los Angeles County Annual Affordable Housing Outcomes Report
- Boston Bar Association Statewide Task Force to Expand Civil Legal Aid in Massachusetts, Investing in Justice: A Roadmap to Cost-Effective Funding of Civil Legal Aid in Massachusetts
- Civil Gideon and NYC's Universal Access: Why Comprehensive Public Benefits Advocacy is Essential to Preventing Evictions and Creating Stability
- Michigan Evictions: Trends, Data Sources, and Neighborhood Determinants
- The Effects of Evictions on Low-Income Households
- Public Health Amici Curiae Brief in Support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Eviction Moratorium
- The State of Eviction Prevention in Alexandria, Virginia: A Community Assessment
Community Instability
- Persistent Evictions Threaten Detroit Neighborhoods
- Effects of Eviction on Individuals and Communities in Middlesex County
- Metro Atlanta Tenants See Higher Rents, Fees, and Evictions From Investor-Owned Houses
Effects on Children
- Kansas City Eviction Project: Student Mobility, Evictions, and Achievement
- Too few Michigan students are showing up to school. This study says fix unstable housing, not schools
- Missing School, Missing a Home: The Link Between Chronic Absenteeism, Economic Instability and Homelessness in Michigan
- Student Mobility: Exploring the Impacts of Frequent Moves on Achievement
- The Impact of the Mortgage Crisis on Children
- Prevalence of Child Welfare Services Involvement among Homeless and Low-Income Mothers: A Five-year Birth Cohort Study
- Timing and Duration of Pre- and Postnatal Homelessness and the Health of Young Children
- Housing as a Platform for Improving Education Outcomes among Low-Income Children
- Evicted Children and Subsequent Placement in Out-of-Home Care: A Cohort Study
- Civil Legal Advocacy to Promote Child and Family Well-being
Health - Mental and Physical
- The Hidden Health Crisis of Eviction
- Just Cause Eviction: A Rapid Health Impact Assessment
- Measuring Resident Health Outcomes in Affordable Housing
- The High Health Toll of SF's Relentless Rent Increases
- The Burden of a Late Rent Check can Harm the Health of Both Parents and Kids
- Medicaid Utilization and Spending Among Homeless Adults in New Jersey
- Eviction Filings, Unemployment, and the Impact of COVID-19
- Health Equity and Housing Equity – Two Sides of the Same Coin
Homelessness
- The Importance of Representation in Eviction Cases and Homeless Prevention
- Eviction and Homelessness in Hennepin County
- The Cleveland Eviction Study: Downstream Paths of Evictions into Homelessness and Loss of Human Capital
- Homelessness just ‘one of the concerns’ when someone is evicted
- Losing Home: The Human Cost of Eviction in Seattle
- The Importance of Representation in Eviction Cases and Homelessness Prevention
- Ending Family Homelessness Report: Understanding the Scale and Needs of Families Experiencing Homelessness in Chicago
- Saving Lives, Saving Money: Cost-Effective Solutions to Chronic Homelessness in Philadelphia
- Cost of Homelessness in Central Florida? $31K per person
- All Alone - Los Angeles
- Homeless in LA
- Homelessness Rises Faster Where Rent Exceeds a Third of Income
- The ‘Hard Cold Facts About the Death of Homeless People’
- Santa Cruz County, California 2017 Homeless Census and Survey
- Facing Eviction: Homelessness Prevention for Low-Income Tenant Households
- Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Housing Assistance on Recidivism to Homelessness, Economic, and Social Outcomes
- Communities Can Better Prevent Homelessness through Housing- and Justice-System Partnerships
- Reducing and Preventing Homelessness: A Review of the Evidence and Charting a Research Agenda
- Reducing and Preventing Homelessness: Lessons from Randomized Evaluations
- Preventing Homelessness Among Youth and Families with Children
- Homelessness Rises Faster Where Rent Exceeds a Third of Income
Housing Court
- Kansas City Eviction Project: Evictions in the Courts
- Boston Housing Court Eviction Report
- The Cleveland Eviction Study: Observations in Eviction Court and the Stories of People Facing Eviction
- New data reveals impact of being lawyerless in Chicago eviction court
- No Time for Justice: A Study of Chicago's Eviction Court
- Serial Eviction Filing: Civil Courts, Property Management, and the Threat of Displacement
- 2018-2019 Chicago Evictions Data Released
- Removing Barriers to Women's Workforce Participation
- A Gendered Perspective on the Right to Housing in the United States
- Grounds for Eviction: Race, Mobility, and Policing in the Antelope Valley
- Study Reveals Gender, Racial Disparities in Evictions
- Eviction Isn't Just about Poverty. It's Also About Race - And Virginia Proves It.
- Poor Black Women Are Evicted at Alarming Rates, Setting Off a Chain of Hardship
- Discrimination in Evictions: Empirical Evidence and Legal Challenges
- Brief of Amici Curiae – Matthew Desmond, ACLU. The Disproportionate Adverse Effect of Eviction on Black Families
- D.C. Evictions Point to Housing Instability Division Along Racial and Economic Lines, Report Finds
- Eviction in Washington, D.C.: Racial and Geographic Disparities in Housing Instability
- Racial and Gender Disparities among Evicted Americans
- Understanding and Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing
- The Disproportionate Burden of Eviction on Black Women
- 14 Million US households are at risk of eviction as protections expire
- U.S. Poised for Wave of Evictions in January as Federal Ban Expires
- ‘Am I going to be evicted?’ Answer now may hinge on Congress.
- How the eviction crisis across the U.S. will look
- NYC Rental Market Pushed to Breaking Point by Tenant Debts
- Report: More Than 40% Of U.S. Renter Households Are At Risk Of Eviction [Infographic]
- As COVID-19 Tanks the Economy, Eviction Moratoriums Expire
- 'They're going to fall off a cliff': August set to bring new financial anguish as coronavirus aid lifelines expire
- 11 million households could be evicted over the next four months
- Millions Of US Renters Face Eviction As Unemployment Benefits, Moratoriums Expire
- Cities brace for the next COVID crisis: a crippling wave of evictions
- Nearly 1.5 million New Yorkers at risk for eviction when trials begin next month
- BIG STORY: Half of S.C. renters at risk for eviction; state action unclear
- Alexandrians Sit on Edge of Eviction
- Pandemic shows widening divide between renters and homeowners
- Up to 48 percent of Alabama renters in danger of eviction, study says
- Arizona ban on evictions set to end as heat, infections soar
- Tucson's housing network braces for 'pending tsunami' as Arizona eviction moratorium nears its end
- Eviction risk ramps up for tenants in arrears outside Detroit
- Clock Running Out on Florida's Eviction Moratorium, Leaving Landlords and Tenants in Limbo
- Kentucky faces wave of evictions if Andy Beshear's protections go away, advocates warn
- A Pandemic of Evictions Looms
- More than 1,500 Lexington renters — more than 220,000 statewide — face eviction
- Philly Council passes Right to Counsel, giving free legal representation to tenants who are evicted (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Philly Council votes unanimously to provide free lawyers for tenants facing eviction (Whyy.org)
- Stout Contributes to Philadelphia Right to Counsel Bill
- Mold Grows on Efforts to Clean Up Public Housing Apartments (The City)
- Stout Contributes to Detroit Eviction Right to Counsel Summit
- Stout Completes Cost/Benefit Study on Right to Counsel for Low-Income Tenants Facing Eviction in Philadelphia
- A Housing Solution: Lawyers for Tenants (The New York Times)
- Right to Counsel in Housing Court: The Bottom Line (Huffington Post)
- The Right To An Attorney... In Housing Court (Above The Law)
- Philly Renters Guaranteed Lawyers In Eviction Court Under New City Council Bill (Whyy.org)
- Philadelphia City Council Gets Bill That Would Guarantee Lawyer For Tenants Facing Eviction (KYW Newsradio)
- Low-income Tenants Fighting Eviction Would Get Free Legal Help Under City Council Bill (The Philadelphia Tribune)
- Housing In Brief: Will Philly Be The Second Big City To Pass Right-To-Counsel? (Next City)
- How Philly's City Council Candidates Say They'd Deal With Housing Crisis (Whyy.org)
- Study: providing lawyers for Baltimore tenants to fight eviction can save city and state money (The Baltimore Sun)
- Stout Report Shows Costs, Racial Disparities in Baltimore City Evictions (Baltimore Post-Examiner)
- From the Field: Los Angeles City Council Takes Key Step Forward on Providing Right to Counsel for Tenants Facing Eviction
- City of Los Angeles Explores Housing Right to Counsel Ordinance
- Right to Counsel' Law for L.A. Tenants Facing Eviction Moves Forward
- San Francisco is Second City to Enact Right to Counsel in Housing Cases
- SF voters guarantee lawyers for evicted tenants
- L.A. County Supervisors Vote 5-0 for Permanent Rent Control Measure Affecting 100,000 Tenants in Unincorporated Areas
- Denver Council Members Pool Leftover Office Budgets to Provide Lawyers for some Renters Facing Eviction
- Civil Gideon Task Force Would Be an Important First Step
- Report of the Task Force to Improve Access to Legal Counsel in Civil Matters
- Time to confront Connecticut's eviction crisis - with lawyers
- Mayor Proposes Plan to Help Protect Renters in Indianapolis
- Baltimore Expands Tenant Aid in Housing
- Baltimore May Join Cities Supporting Low-Income Tenants in Eviction Cases
- Councilman Proposes Legal Aid for Tenants in Baltimore Facing Evictions
- Boston City Council Oks Protection for Tenants Facing Eviction
- As Rents Soar in Boston, Low-Income Tenants Try to Save Off Eviction
- Massachusetts right to counsel legislation gains urgency amid rising number of evictions
- Jacob Frey Launches Pro Bono Eviction Defense Effort
- Why Tenants Lose When they go up Against Landlords in Newark
- Tenants' Right to Counsel on the Move, Next Stop Newark
- Newark Becomes Third City to Enact Right to Counsel for Evictions
- Increasing Tenants' Access to Counsel had Raised Court Efficiency, Fairness, Judges Say
- City Tackles Roll-Out of Right to Counsel in Housing Court
- NYC Tenant Movement History
- NYC First Jurisdiction to Guarantee Counsel for Evictions, Looks to Expand
- Eviction rate in Syracuse public housing drops 75% thanks to City Hall effort
- Amid Nationwide Increases, Mayor de Blasio Announces Record-Breaking 41% Decreased in Evictions Citywide
- I-Team: What nearly 50,000 eviction filings in four years have done to Hamilton County
- Cincinnati Eviction Prevention Program Launches with $400,000 in Help
- Cincinnati Report Flags Troubling Eviction Stats, Calls for Right to Counsel
- Community Invited to Read "Evicted," Discuss Inequality in Housing: A Greater Cleveland
- To Reduce Unfair Evictions Tenants Need Lawyers
- Mayor Kenney Announces Philadelphia Eviction Prevention Project
- Op-ed: Philadelphia should relieve eviction crisis by funding legal representation for low-income tenants
- Philadelphia Makes Historic Investment to Aid Low-Income Renters Facing Eviction
- Philadelphia City Council Proposes Low-Income Tenant Legal Defense Fund
- New Virginia Coalition Forms to Reduce the Commonwealth’s High Rates of Eviction
- Mayor Lear Stoney Announces Program Aimed to Help Lower Eviction Numbers
- Need a Lawyers To Fight An Eviction? A New D.C. Program Provides One For Free
- More Affordable Housing, Right to Legal Counsel could Ease Tucson's Eviction Problem
- Millions of Renters Face Eviction - Why Today's Housing Market is Partially to Blame
- In 'Game-Changer,' Hawaii Given Approval to use Medicaid Dollars to Help Chronically Homeless
- Atlanta Persuaded Landlords to Rent to Homeless People. Can it Work in Seattle?
- America's Rental Housing: Evolving Markets and Needs
- The GAP: The Affordable Housing Gap Analysis 2016
- Winning Really Matters.' Discussing Homelessness with Liz Hersh, Office of Supportive Housing
- San Diego Tenants Union Speaks Out on City Council Work Plan and The Homeless
- Rents are Soaring -- and so are Evictions
- How Cities are Trying to Level the Playing Field for Tenants Facing Eviction
- These Cities are about to Make it Harder for Landlords to Evict People
- Inside the fight to revamp Right to Counsel
- Milwaukee County Declares 'Right to Shelter' For County Residents
- Baltimore Becomes 7th City with Right to Counsel
- 10 Guidelines to Aid Tenants and Landlords in Eviction Crisis are Adopted by the ABA House
- City of Boulder Releases Eviction Prevention and Rental Assistance Services Annual Report
- D.C. Enacts Expanding Access to Justice Act of 2017
- New York City Legislation
- Newark Legislation
- San Francisco Legislation
- Massachusetts House Bill 3589
- Massachusetts House Bill 968
- Massachusetts House Bill 831
- Massachusetts House Bill 3456
- Connecticut Senate Bill 652
- Colorado Senate Bill 19-180
- Los Angeles City Council Motion to Eviction Right to Counsel Program
- 2019-2020 Massachusetts Proposed Eviction Right to Counsel Bills
- Philadelphia City Council Resolution No. 160988
- Minnesota S.F. No. 1785: Right to Counsel on Public Housing; Breach of Lease Eviction Actions
- Philadelphia City Council Bill No. 190386
- Motion for Expanding Eviction Defense Services in Los Angeles County
- Motion for Legal Right to Counsel for Tenants in West Hollywood
- Implementing Eviction Defense and Prevention Services in Los Angeles County
- Baltimore - Landlord-Tenant Right to Counsel in Eviction Cases
- San Franciso Office of the Controller Letter Re: Proposition F
- California 2019-2020 Revised Budget (see page 58 for reference to eviction defense investment)
- The Los Angeles Housing+Community Investment Department’s Report Back Regarding Recommendations for a City of Los Angeles Eviction Defense Program
- Indianapolis Ordinance for Tenant Rights
- Indianapolis Request for Funding for City Tenant Rights Ordinance
- 2019 NYC City Council Hearing Testimony in Support of Expanding Right to Counsel and Funding Tenant Organizing
- Testimony Presented to Philadelphia City Council Committee on Licenses and Inspections and the Committee on Public Health and Human Services
- Testimony of Deborah R. Gross, Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association Before City of Philadelphia City Council Committee on Licenses and Inspections and the Committee on Public Health and Human Services
- Office of Homeless Services Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Testimony
- Boston Mayor Walsh Announces Housing Security and Economic Mobility Legislative Package
- An Open Letter Regarding Eviction Court Records Data Availability
- Report to Congress on the Feasibility of Creating a National Evictions Database
- Real Estate Board of New York Testimony
- Massachusetts Right to Counsel Coalition
- RTCNYC Coalition
- National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel
- Eviction Lab
- Legal Aid Research
- Policy Documents Supporting a Right to Counsel
- NYC Office of Civil Justice – Legal Services for Tenants
- Eviction Free MKE
- Free Eviction Help – Cleveland RTC
- U.S. Department of The Treasury – Eviction Diversion
- University of Michigan Poverty Solutions – Housing and Homelessness
