Helping Low-Income Tenants Avoid Post-Foreclosure Evictions

On October 2, 2008, the Editorial Team of Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy sponsored a webinar on how to help clients who are tenants (including Section 8 tenants) in rental properties subject to foreclosure. Presenters included:

• Judith Liben, Senior Housing Attorney, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
• Maeve Elise Brown, Executive Director, Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, Oakland, California
• Esme Caramello, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School's WilmerHale Legal Services Center

• Judith Liben's presentation
• Maeve Elise Brown's presentation
• Esme Carmello's presentation

Download the webinar (Windows Media Player format; 50MB)

Supplementary Materials

Litigation

EMC Mortgage Corp. v. Smith, No. 95-04794 (City of Boston Hous. Ct. Jan. 5, 1996)

GE Capital Mortgage Servs. v. Dillard, No. 96-SP-02565 (Mass. Hous. Ct. May 23, 1997)

Client Education Materials

What Tenants in Foreclosed Buildings Should Know

If You Are a Tenant in a Building That Is Being Foreclosed, You Have Rights (English)

If You Are a Tenant in a Building That Is Being Foreclosed, You Have Rights! (Spanish)

Tenants Facing Foreclosure (from MassLegalHelp)

Other

Boston Housing Authority Letter

Assignment of Housing Assistance Payment Contract upon Foreclosure of Property

Foreclosure and Eviction Practices by State
This document was prepared by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. If you have an update or other information that should be included on this chart, please contact Melanie Orhant, Director of Pro Bono Services, at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 202.638.2535.

Defaulting on the Dream: States Respond to America's Foreclosure Crisis
According to this report from the Pew Charitable Trusts, 1 in 33 homeowners is likely to be in foreclosure within the next two years. The site includes links to fact sheets that assess how each state is being affected by and responding to the foreclosure crisis.