Tenant’s Rights

Shermika Pittman, a Baltimore City resident, filed suit yesterday against the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC) and two of its employees for debt collection violations and wrongful eviction alleging that the Housing Authority, as her landlord, filed a number...

Maryland Legal Aid has published a study of rent court proceedings in 2012 for Failure to Pay Rent (FTPR). The random sample of cases provided statistically significant results and found widespread due process problems and procedural deficiencies within cases where...