Tenant Right to Counsel Convening

As you advance and implement a tenant right to counsel, tenant outreach is imperative at all stages of your plan. Tenants must be involved in developing the plan, activated to make other tenants aware, and deeply familiar with the strategies and what a right to counsel can mean. Developing effective, adaptable, multi-faceted outreach strategies, and planning for how outreach and phase-in will interact is key to an effective, sustainable, and transformative tenant right to counsel law. How can we better reach tenants? Are there drawbacks to effective outreach (causing legal services providers to be over-capacity and potentially close intake)?

Join us in this strategy session to learn more about successful tenant outreach techniques and potential cautions.

In this strategy session, we’ll learn more about the successful techniques to and challenges in developing relationships, alignment and accountability with elected officials. Though we’ll have time to hear from advocates on the panel, we’ll also brainstorm strategies together to ensure your elected officials are fighting hard to pass and implement RTC in your region.

This session examines high-quality representation and how RTC programs are changing the law. We'll explore questions around attorney supervision, how impact work and appeals can continue to be prioritized after tenant RTC is enacted, and how tenant RTC-related litigation is (or can) impact the body of law and practice of law in specific jurisdictions.

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.