A safe and stable home is the foundation for a healthy life, but this basic necessity remains out of reach for many people. New laws that guarantee the right to counsel for tenants facing eviction offer a promising opportunity to address this issue and related racial and health inequities.
Our webinar Advancing Racial & Health Justice Through a Right to Counsel for Tenants was held on March 6, 2024. Watch the recording to learn more about right-to-counsel laws as well as steps that public health practitioners can take to advance racial and health justice by supporting tenants’ right to counsel.
This one-hour webinar is for public health practitioners, lawyers, organizers, local government staff and officials, and all those interested in advancing health through the right to counsel for tenants.
The speakers are experts who are working to pass, implement, and evaluate right-to-counsel efforts:
- Will Dominie, Human Impact Partners
- Pablo Estupiñan, Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
- Brittany Giles-Cantrell, de Beaumont Foundation
- Danya Keene, Yale School of Public Health
- Maria Roumiantseva, National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel
- Melissa Marichal Zayas, ChangeLab Solutions
Explore this topic further in our new resource Advancing Racial and Health Justice Through a Right to Counsel for Tenants: A Primer for the Public Health Field.
This webinar and resource are brought to you by Human Impact Partners, National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel, Results for America, ChangeLab Solutions, and PolicyLink, in partnership with the de Beaumont Foundation and American Public Health Association, as part of the Healing Through Policy initiative.
2/27/2024; updated 3/7/2024