Campbell Law School takes action to address housing and eviction crisis

WEB EXCLUSIVE Campbell Law was one of 99 law schools to respond to the Attorney General’s call to action for the legal profession to address the housing and eviction crisis.

99 law schools, including Raleigh’s own Campbell Law School, are responding to the call from the White House and the Justice Department to address the national housing and eviction crisis.

As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s “whole-of-government approach” to helping families keep their homes, Campbell Law is leveraging its resources such as pro bono and clerkship programs and clinical offerings to help struggling families avoid eviction by applying for housing assistance. support, volunteering with legal aid providers, and helping courts implement eviction diversion programs, among other initiatives.

Campbell Law School is also working closely with the Raleigh Office of North Carolina Legal Aid to support pro bono landlord cases this semester, and all students in the clinical class are reading Expelled: poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond.

“We couldn’t be more inspired that so many dedicated law students and clinical legal programs have answered the call to provide legal services to struggling families who, too often, face devastating evictions,” the counselor said. principal of the president and American. Rescue Plan Coordinator Gene Sperling.

In addition to law school efforts, $25 billion to $30 billion has been distributed to more than 3 million needy households under the U.S. Bailout Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which has kept eviction filing rates below 60% of averages in a typical country. year.

“The housing crisis is an issue of poverty and economic security because of the lasting effects we know evictions have on families,” Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said during a Zoom press conference ago. some months. “That’s why I’ve encouraged the courts to embrace eviction diversion as an essential tool to keep people in their homes and landlords to access housing assistance during the pandemic.”

So, thanks to schools like Campbell Law, we seem to be well on our way to branching out this issue, but there’s still a lot of work to be done.