Cleveland right-to-counsel eviction law should expand to Cuyahoga County: editorial - cleveland.com
Housing law expert Hazel Remesch, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, photographed outside her office Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. Remesch worked for years to test out the idea of right-to-counsel in Cleveland eviction cases and then bring to fruition Cleveland's right-to-counsel project, which just completed its successful first full year helping the poorest Cleveland families avoid eviction. Next: a Cuyahoga County right-to-counsel law, writes the editorial board today. (Photo by Marvin Fong, The Plain Dealer)The Plain Dealer
In July 2020, Cleveland became just the fourth U.S. city to provide free legal representation for poor parents facing evictions. The local Legal Aid lawyers who’d fought so long for this fundamental legal safeguard -- and their funders at City Hall, the United Way of Greater Cleveland and elsewhere -- did more than just celebrate and get to work.
They set up guardrails to make sure the Cleveland pilot came with full, independent, statistical evaluations, to quantify its sweeping economic benefits to the city -- and also, as it happens, to the Cleveland schools, Cuyahoga County and the state of Ohio, more generally.
source: https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2022/02/cleveland-right-to-counsel-eviction-law-should-expand-to-cuyahoga-county-editorial.html
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