by Natasha Mundkur | Sep 17, 2021 | Press Releases
The Tampa Police Department works with landlords to evict tenants through a program that discriminates against tenants of color, in violation of federal law, according to a demand letter sent on Thursday by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the ACLU...
by Natasha Mundkur | Sep 2, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, DC) – Counting incarcerated individuals at their carceral address rather than their home address unjustly shifts political power from communities of color to white, rural communities where prisons are disproportionately located and further...
by Natasha Mundkur | Sep 1, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — A highly restrictive and blatantly unconstitutional Texas law that bans abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy went into effect Wednesday after the United States Supreme Court failed to rule on a pending emergency application brought by...
by Natasha Mundkur | Aug 31, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) —Attorney General Merrick B. Garland called on the legal community to volunteer time and legal assistance to confront the ongoing housing and evictions crisis following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down the federal...
by Natasha Mundkur | Aug 16, 2021 | Press Releases
Landlords have both a legal and moral responsibility to accept Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) funds and to not pursue non-payment evictions according to a letter sent Monday to the National Apartment Association (NAA) and the National Association of Realtors (NAR)....