Newark’s Right to Counsel: A Proposed System Design for Indigent Tenants Facing Eviction

Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME), David D. Troutt, Director

April 2019

As a member of a local affordable housing coalition and partner to Mayor Baraka's effort to implement the second right-to-counsel (RTC) ordinance in the country, CLiME led the research design of such a system and the supporting basis for its legality under New Jersey law.  

This memorandum was submitted to the City of Newark in early February, with recommendations for implementing a system of free legal services for indigent Newarkers (incomes below 200 percent of the median) facing imminent eviction proceedings in Essex County court.  

Continue reading this memorandum in its entirety below:

Newark’s Right to Counsel: A Proposed System Design for Indigent Tenants Facing Eviction