We help North Carolinians live in safe and affordable homes:
- Public and Subsidized Housing: We handle cases involving evictions from or admissions to public and other federally subsidized housing complexes, and terminations of housing subsidies like Section 8 housing vouchers.
- Private Housing: We handle cases involving self-help evictions (landlords trying to evict without going through a legal process), habitability (landlords failing to keep a property safe and in good repair), and evictions from mobile home lot tenancies.
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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
Resources
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
Rent Non-Payment (text messages)
Rent Owed
Security Deposit
Rent Non-Payment Show Receipt
HOME: Update on the CDC eviction moratorium
How to appeal an eviction judgment
HOME: Stop eviction! Get rental assistance!
Free Tenant Rights Clinic
News
Time Out Communities creating eviction crisis in Robeson County
Legal Aid clients threatened with eviction after appearing in exposé about skyrocketing rents in mobile…
Are you being evicted?
Nellie Kearney series
Wells Fargo funding will help fight COVID-related eviction
RALEIGH—The Wells Fargo Foundation announced on September 24 that it had donated $5.4 million to…
Legal Aid NC gets $300k from Wells Fargo Foundation to keep renters in their homes
RALEIGH—Up to 40 million U.S. renters may face eviction by the end of the year…
We're suing top NC court officials to demand compliance with CDC eviction moratorium, Governor's order
RALEIGH—Legal Aid of North Carolina is suing state and county court officials to stop the…
"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…
