Central Florida Legal Services Firm Opens Walk-In Clinics To Address Rising Needs Of Homeowners In Foreclosure As Calls For Help Double

In Daytona Beach, Florida, the Daytona Beach News Journal reports:

• [C]alls to the help line at [Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida](1), which is based in Daytona Beach and serves 12 counties, have doubled in the past two years to about 40,000 calls a year. The agency, which receives mostly federal dollars, is only financially able to assist about half the people. Although most of the calls are for family-law help such as domestic violence, divorce and child custody, the number of calls from people seeking housing and foreclosure help has doubled in the past year. Those calls make up 38 percent of callers. The agency started various walk-in clinics last week to help with the rising need.

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• Although there are 27 paid attorneys on staff, including about a dozen in Daytona Beach, the agency also had 96 local lawyers who donated their time and services this past year.

For more, see Homeowner's woes eased by legal agency.

(1) A nonprofit law firm that provides legal aid to low-income families, seniors and victims of domestic violence or housing discrimination.