Housing Law

Our Housing Priority Committee works to:

• Secure and protect safe, affordable and decent housing
• Prevent homelessness and eviction
• prevent and protect against foreclosures 
• Ensure that government enforces tenant protection laws
• Secure and protect tenants’ rights to public and subsidized housing

Most often, our Housing Priority Committee handles cases where landlords and housing authorities violate laws and regulations in:

• Denying public and subsidized housing
• Terminating public and subsidized housing
• Evictions
• Promises to repair
• Lockouts
• Security Deposits
• Earnest Money
• Foreclosing mortgages

If you are being evicted in Milwaukee County, please see the Eviction Defense Project.

If you are a low-income person with a different housing law problem or in a different county, contact Legal Action to learn whether we can help.