Kansas City prevented hundreds of evictions by providing attorneys. Now the program is growing

TL;DR

When Briashauna Wallace received an eviction notice last month, she says it was a horrible feeling. “We had been denied our right to counsel because there weren't enough lawyers to meet the capacity of tenants being evicted, because the tenant's right to counsel implemented by our city is not guaranteed because it is not fully funded,” she said in her testimony. “The idea here is for tenants to be able to have a stable housing situation, and it is to everyone's interest for there to be housing stability across our city

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