Housing
Housing security can make a difference in getting and retaining a job, keeping children safe, and letting you sleep safely at night. Our Housing Law team helps prevent evictions and fight habitability issues.
Why Housing?
Research confirms what daily experience proves: that housing is essential for everyone. Without housing, people struggle to hold a job and their health deteriorates.
Fortunately, homeowners and renters alike are blessed with strong legal protections. Unfortunately, laws aren’t self-enforcing. Without legal help these protections are almost meaningless.
By enabling people to enforce their property and contract rights, we’re preventing them from illegally losing their homes.
Legal Representation Matters
With the same facts, you are 5x more likely to stay housed when you are represented in a housing matter. Additionally, more than half of tenants who aren’t represented are forced to pay more than their maximum legal liability.
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More likely to keep your home, if represented
Housing Stories
“I’m stable now. But if I hadn’t had legal help, it would have been: emergency services, trying to figure out where to relocate 40 years of stuff, and a continuing horror story.”
Michelle's Story
Maria's Story
Keeshemah's Story
“Before we did not believe we were protected because we did not know the law, so we couldn’t ask for it. Without Open Door Legal we would have lost the case. We would have all been evicted.”
Issue Areas
Some of the major housing-related issue areas we have represented people in include:
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