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Rocket Community Fund, partners launch $1.35M effort to bridge digital divide, prevent evictions
The Rocket Community Fund, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, and the Cleveland Foundation have announced a new program called “Neighbor to Neighbor” that aims to bridge the digital divide and address housing instability in Cleveland neighborhoods. Through a door-to-door canvassing effort, organizers will identify resident needs and try to fill them.
Cleveland Right to Counsel shows promising early results for tenants, and some landlords
Cleveland is one of seven cities in the U.S. that has enacted a right to counsel program that provides free legal representation to tenants facing eviction. Early statistics from the program’s first year of operation show promising results – dozens of evictions prevented despite a federal moratorium on evictions – but what will happen when that moratorium ends?
Facing eviction, residents struggle to find help
Slavic Village residents face mounds of paperwork and uncooperative landlords as they try to stave off eviction. Housing advocates are trying to keep them from slipping through the cracks.
