Law Students To Staff Jacksonville Legal Clinic Representing Low Income Tenants Facing Eviction

In Jacksonville, Florida, the Jacksonville Business Review reports:

• Florida Coastal School of Law recently launched a new housing rights legal clinic so students can work with low-income families facing housing-related legal problems. The clients are tenants who could be facing eviction and whose household income falls within the federal poverty guidelines. The clinic offers the service free to people who qualify and in conjunction with Jacksonville Area Legal Aid.

• “Most of these people are in between an emergency and living on the street,” said Professor Lois Ragsdale, who oversees the clinic at Florida Coastal. [...] The clinic focuses on landlord-tenant cases in Duval County ranging from security deposit issues up to evictions.

For more, see Florida Coastal School Law program fights evictions.