Tenant Right to Counsel Convening

In this strategy session we’ll look at how lawyers involved in tenant RTC programs can work closely with organizers and movement leaders to advance housing justice more broadly.  We’ll explore how legal services programs can remain movement and community-focused while handling the demands of tenant RTC caseloads. We’ll also look at the benefits and insights that RTC attorneys can bring into the movement space.

In this strategy session we’re focusing on leading a right to counsel campaign. We’ll workshop strategies, talk about challenges and ways to respond. We’ll explore key aspects not to miss in planning your tenant RTC campaign. We’ll look at plans that have worked and discuss some mechanisms for passing tenant RTC like passing funding first then tenant RTC legislation or working on advancing a tenant right to counsel through a ballot initiative process.

This session will explore finding sustainable funding streams for tenant RTC. We’ll examine strategies that have worked, as well as those that didn’t, and discuss what it means to develop a thorough and careful tenant RTC budget that includes funding not just for infrastructure growth but also lawyer supports (paralegals / social workers), program outreach, and evaluation.