Detroit Eviction Defense

Detroit’s Right to Counsel ordinance was supposed to take effect last October, ensuring that low-income residents have a lawyer when they’re facing eviction.

With pandemic-era benefits winding down and the eviction moratorium ended, Detroit tenants are seeing more evictions — and housing activists and residents are demanding a series of policy efforts to better protect tenants.

As part of Detroit's recent Right to Counsel ordinance, an Office of Eviction Defense was supposed to be created by October 1. But no one's been hired to work in it.

Detroit's new Right to Counsel Ordinance will get free lawyers for residents who make less than $27,000 dollars a year. The office is supposed to help coordinate those lawyers and residents.

The plan includes renovating vacant apartment buildings and land bank homes and providing mortgage down-payment assistance for renters.

Detroit has been paying for some recently-evicted tenants to stay in hotels. Now, those residents will need to find other housing by June 30.

A new report found in recent Detroit eviction cases, 4% of tenants had legal representation. 83% of landlords did. The report also found that tenants with representation are nearly 18 times more likely to avoid displacement.

Police evicted Whitney Burney and her four children in December 2020 from a home she was renting, after her landlord claimed she was squatting on the property. Her lawsuit claims the police acted illegally and violated her rights in multiple ways.

A Detroit family facing eviction after apparently being scammed by a fake landlord has been given a reprieve of sorts.The group Detroit Eviction Defense…

State officials say evictions in Michigan in September and October were about half what they were during the same time period last year.That's after the…