Applicants and tenants of certain HUD rental assistance programs may not be denied housing, evicted, or have their housing assistance terminated because they have experienced: -domestic violence; -dating violence; -sexual assault; or -stalking. Additionally, survivors are able to ask for an emergency housing transfer for safety reasons. These protections fall under the Violence Against Women …
The State of Montana is a vast swath of land with only 1.1 million people spread across 56 counties and seven reservation-based communities. The challenges facing Montana are endemic to many rural and reservation-based communities and create unique roadblocks for connecting people in need with legal service providers. (click to read more)
MLSA’s Emily McLean, Brittney Mada, and Bill Hooks published a Special Feature in the Management Information Exchange (MIE) Journal. Their work is titled “The Montana Eviction Intervention Project: Legal Relief for Montana Tenants in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The article outlines how MLSA partnered with the Montana Department of Commerce to begin the …
Some Missoula residents are rallying against what they call unfair evictions and this month dozens have gathered to protest some of the evictions.
A new website is helping Montanans answer tricky legal questions about debt. The Montana Legal Services Association has launched MontanaDebtOptions.org to offer resources for those dealing with consumer debt.
Montanans across the state are facing a housing crisis. Prices both to rent and buy a place to live have skyrocketed, leaving vacancy rates extremely low in cities big and small.
How a $3.4 million federal grant is helping Montana chip away at youth homelessness. “Making sure that every kid has a safe, happy, healthy place to be raised? Yeah. We’re not quite there,” Nichole Heyer, a youth homelessness navigator at Montana Legal Services Association.
A federal grant is helping Montana tackle homelessness among the state’s young people. The Treasure State was chosen as a rural recipient of a $3.4 million grant from the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project, created by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Nichole Heyer is navigator of the project for Montana Legal Services Association. …
A program is looking for Montanans to represent people in courts on tribal reservations, who often lack access to legal assistance when they need it. The Tribal Advocate Incubator Project wants to train lay advocates – that is, people who are not lawyers by profession – to represent folks in tribal courts across the state. …
In early 2020, Providence Montana and the Montana Legal Services Association (MLSA), with support from the Montana Healthcare Foundation, launched a medical-legal partnership (MLP) to provide support to patients in need of civil-legal assistance. Through this program, low-income patients can receive free legal help in areas of law including housing, benefits, insurance, education and employment, …
