Legal services organizations turning away poor facing foreclosures
A recent USA Today article mentioned two HLS graduates, Dan Lindsey and Melanca Clark, in a story focusing on the dearth of legal service attorneys available to poor people facing foreclosure. The article focuses on a report done by the Brennan Center for Justice, an organization based out of New York University Law School. Dan Lindsey is currently supervising a foreclosure program in Chicago and was a source for the report, and Melanca Clark, a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice, is one of the report’s authors.
Tough call here, I wouldn’t call Foreclosure Law something that is necessarily a social service branch of the legal profession. Why not? It has to do with how people came to be in such financial problems with their homes in the first place. People who are low income and facing foreclosure might be an exception to that, but there are many low income folks not facing foreclosure, and you have to ask why that is.
Comment by llc | November 12, 2009