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Apply for free help with civil (non-criminal) legal issues. Those 60 and older should call the Senior Helpline.
Fair Housing Helpline
Toll-Free: 1 (855) 797-FAIR (3247)
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday – Friday
Free help with housing discrimination. Learn more: Fair Housing Project
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We provide free legal help to low-income North Carolinians in civil cases involving basic human needs like safety, shelter, income and more.
Tenant Rights
Attend our free Tenant Rights Clinic to learn what to do if your landlord will not make repairs. At the clinic, you will watch an instructional video. A volunteer attorney will…
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Free Tenant Rights Clinic
HOME: Stop eviction! Get rental assistance!
How to appeal an eviction judgment
Update on CDC eviction moratorium
Experienced Housing Discrimination – Espanol
Familial Status Discrimination-Espanol
Familial Status Discrimination
Experienced Housing Discrimination
How to Request a Reasonable Accommodations
Reasonable Accommodations and Assistance Animals
HOME | Rental Assistance: A Pathway to Saving Your Rental Home
HOME: Update on the CDC eviction moratorium
Rent Non-Payment Show Receipt
Security Deposit
Rent Owed
Rent Non-Payment (text messages)
Can I be evicted right now? Status of COVID-related eviction protections
El programa DEAR con Yesenia Polanco
House Wake! COVID-19 Eviction Prevention Program
CDC Declaration Form – Temporary Halt in Evictions to Prevent Further Spread of COVID-19
Clarifying Ownership During Recovery: Heir Property and Family Trees
HOME: Foreclosures and fair housing during COVID
Raleigh residents: Get help with rent, security deposits, utilities, mortgages
CDC eviction moratorium
The Homestead Property Tax Exclusion
Free Forum Friday: Eviction prevention during COVID-19 and the role of pro bono service
What is fair housing? (Part 3 of 3)
What is fair housing? (Part 2 of 3)
What is fair housing? (Part 1 of 3)
What is fair housing? (Full video)
HOME (Housing on Monday Evening): Know your rights about mobile home lot evictions
HOME: Foreclosure prevention during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Evictions and the new mask requirement in North Carolina courts
Common housing questions during the pandemic (Housing on Monday Evening 6/16)
Finding and applying for affordable housing in North Carolina (6/8/2020)
Free Tenant's Rights Webinar
Free Forum Friday – 5/29
CARES act: What tenants need to know
Don't Let Ownership Issues Stand in the Way of Recovery: Ownership and Heir Property during recovery
Tenants Rights Clinic (COVID-19)
Foreclosures and Foreclosure Evictions in NC during the Pandemic
North Carolina Evictions During the Pandemic
The CARES Act and Renting
Legal Aid Helps a Family Move to a Safe Home
Ruth & the Eviction Diversion Project
Ruth & the Fair Housing Project
Ruth & Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Project
Ruth & Subsidized Housing Law
Ruth & Fair Housing Law
Ruth & Private Landlord Tenant Law
Tenant Rights – My Landlord Won't Make Repairs
What can I do if my landlord does not make repairs?
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Our projects focus on unique client populations and special areas of law.
Fair Housing Project
About The Fair Housing Project of Legal Aid of North Carolina works to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for all people in North Carolina through education,…
Economic Justice Initiative
About The Economic Justice Initiative, known as the EJI, is a statewide project of Legal Aid of North Carolina that strives to keep working poor and working families in possession…
Durham Eviction Diversion Program
The Durham Eviction Diversion Program is a partnership of our Durham office, Duke Law’s Civil Justice Clinic and the Durham Department of Social Services. The program uses tenant education, legal…
News
The Struggles of Affordable Housing: North Carolina Woman Issues a Final Cry for Help
New know-your-rights resource for homeless youth in North Carolina
RALEIGH – Global law firm Baker McKenzie, in partnership with Legal Aid of North Carolina and…
Our new statewide Housing Helpline streamlines access to free legal aid for tenants
NC Homeowner Assistance Fund opens statewide
"Waste" author Flowers to give free lecture on housing and environmental injustice
DURHAM—Environmental justice advocate, MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and author of Waste: One woman’s fight against America’s…
Wilmington housing complex settles criminal-record discrimination case
RALEIGH—Legal Aid of North Carolina announced today that it has settled a housing discrimination complaint…
Legal Aid team honored for racial justice and health equity work in Rocky Mount
High court win for Legal Aid client to benefit all NC public housing tenants
"The Color of Law" author, Richard Rothstein, to give public lecture to raise funds for tenants facing eviction
DURHAM—Richard Rothstein, the acclaimed author of The Color of Law (2017), will give a free…
Struggling homeowners need to act fast to get COVID-related mortgage forbearance
RALEIGH—Are you struggling to make your mortgage payments because of financial hardship related to the…
