In the Media

Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was quoted in DCist in an article about the D.C. Housing Authority reopening its waitlist: "...the public housing waitlist is stagnant because units have been sitting dilapidated and vacant. That’s part of my frustration – there is a mismatch between what they’re doing and what they’re trying to solve. That isn’t and wasn’t what the problem with the waitlist was.”

Legal Aid's June Lee was quoted in DCist's coverage of advocacy efforts at the D.C. Council: “It’s kind of premised on the idea that if you want to be pro-immigrant, you also want to be anti-poverty, you want to be anti-discrimination.”

Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was quoted in The Washington Post on D.C. Housing Authority overpayments to landlords: “It was a problem that was raised, recognized and anytime somebody tried to address it, it seems like they were kind of hushed."

Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was quoted in Greater Greater Washington's coverage of HUD's D.C. Housing Authorty audit.

Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was quoted in The Washington Post on the proposed overhaul of the D.C. Housing Authority: “The Mayor’s majority on the Board of Commissioners is what got DCHA to where it is today — a failing agency that has lost its sense of purpose and mission.”

Volunteer Staff Attorney Tom Papson details the District's updated debt collection law in the Washington Lawyer