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Patching The Patchwork: Moving The Civil Right To Counsel Forward With Key Data, Maria Roumiantseva
Patching The Patchwork: Moving The Civil Right To Counsel Forward With Key Data, Maria Roumiantseva
Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development
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While the pandemic has exposed many long-standing realities about the United States, the destructive everyday crisis of eviction is top of mind as moratoria have now expired and rental assistance funds dissipate with no anticipated replenishment. Therefore, though this piece addresses legal representation in civil legal proceedings more broadly, we will start with an eviction story.
It can be taken as fact that not too far from where you are reading this piece, a tenant is facing an eviction unrepresented. She cannot afford a private attorney. She is income eligible for legal aid, but the office near her home …