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Legal Aid NC Helpline
If you wish to contact Legal Aid NC for disaster-related legal issues, call our Helpline:
Toll-Free: 1 (866) 219-LANC (5262)
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM, Monday – Friday
For all other calls, our helpline is open:
8:30 AM – 1:30 PM, Monday – Friday
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM, Monday & Thursday
Apply for free help with civil (non-criminal) legal issues.
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
Clinics
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
At the moment, we are not running live Tenant Rights Clinics. You can check out our most recent recordings here. Affirmative Case for Repairs Forms
Videos
How Tenants Can File Claims Against their Landlords When the Landlord Fails to Make Repairs
Security Deposits
What can I do if my landlord does not make repairs?
Tenant Rights – My Landlord Won't Make Repairs
Ruth & Private Landlord Tenant Law
Ruth & Fair Housing Law
Ruth & Subsidized Housing Law
Ruth & Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Project
Ruth & the Fair Housing Project
Ruth & the Eviction Diversion Project
Legal Aid Helps a Family Move to a Safe Home
The CARES Act and Renting
North Carolina Evictions During the Pandemic
Foreclosures and Foreclosure Evictions in NC during the Pandemic
Tenants Rights Clinic (COVID-19)
Don't Let Ownership Issues Stand in the Way of Recovery: Ownership and Heir Property during recovery
CARES act: What tenants need to know
Free Forum Friday – 5/29
Free Tenant's Rights Webinar
Finding and applying for affordable housing in North Carolina (6/8/2020)
Common housing questions during the pandemic (Housing on Monday Evening 6/16)
Evictions and the new mask requirement in North Carolina courts
HOME: Foreclosure prevention during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
HOME (Housing on Monday Evening): Know your rights about mobile home lot evictions
What is fair housing? (Full video)
What is fair housing? (Part 1 of 3)
What is fair housing? (Part 2 of 3)
What is fair housing? (Part 3 of 3)
Free Forum Friday: Eviction prevention during COVID-19 and the role of pro bono service
The Homestead Property Tax Exclusion
CDC eviction moratorium
Raleigh residents: Get help with rent, security deposits, utilities, mortgages
HOME: Foreclosures and fair housing during COVID
Clarifying Ownership During Recovery: Heir Property and Family Trees
CDC Declaration Form – Temporary Halt in Evictions to Prevent Further Spread of COVID-19
House Wake! COVID-19 Eviction Prevention Program
El programa DEAR con Yesenia Polanco
Can I be evicted right now? Status of COVID-related eviction protections
Rent Non-Payment (text messages)
Rent Owed
Security Deposit
Rent Non-Payment Show Receipt
HOME: Update on the CDC eviction moratorium
HOME | Rental Assistance: A Pathway to Saving Your Rental Home
Reasonable Accommodations and Assistance Animals
How to Request a Reasonable Accommodations
Experienced Housing Discrimination
Familial Status Discrimination
Familial Status Discrimination-Espanol
Experienced Housing Discrimination – Espanol
Update on CDC eviction moratorium
How to appeal an eviction judgment
HOME: Stop eviction! Get rental assistance!
Free Tenant Rights Clinic
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Projects
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,…
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
"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…
Housing discrimination case in Greenville continues after one defendant sentenced to 28 months in federal prison for racial harassment
RALEIGH—Douglas Matthew Gurkins, 34, a Greenville resident, has been sentenced to 28 months in federal…
