Thursday, February 26, 2009

Pisgah Legal Service Robin Merrell

With only 18 employees Pisgah Legal Served around 9,000 people through 35,000 cases last year.

They receive over 10,000 phone calls a year.

Within these cases 35% are housing cases dealing with home ownership to prevention of foreclosure.

They also look at the BIG PICTURE of affordable housing issues. Robin help with the Affordable Housing plan.

Another issue they work with is making sure landlords and the housing authority's practices following there polices. (Charging late fees when there is nothing in the policies that says they will charge late fees, etc.)

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