HOUSING

SMRLS can assist in a variety of housing-related legal issues, such as eviction, rent increases utilities shut-offs, security deposit issues, and failure to make needed repairs. Housing cases are the most common type of cases that SMRLS attorneys work on.

CASES WE NORMALLY HANDLE

    • The landlord is not making repairs to address serious repair problems

    • The landlord has illegally changed the locks

    • The landlord has illegally retaliated for a tenant enforcing their rights

    • Evictions from manufactured homes

    • Where there are children in the household;

    • the family receives a rental assistance subsidy;

    • the head of the household has special needs;

    • the landlord is discriminating against the household; or

    • there are serious repair problems.

    • We can help homeowners keep their houses

    • The household is facing the loss of a rental assistance subsidy

    • We can help tenants who are victims of illegal housing discrimination enforce their rights.

    • A family or individual is being denied access to public housing because of discrimination or because they were a victim of domestic violence

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