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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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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…
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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…