Ms. Travis was a low-income single mother in Fulton County who was thrilled to sign a lease and pay a deposit on a new apartment. But when she moved in, she discovered the unit had no running water, no functional electricity or appliances and no working door locks. She reported the problems to the landlord, whose response was essentially “too bad.” He refused to repair the unit or release Ms. Travis from her lease. She reached out to the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation for help, and I accepted the case pro bono.
Countless tenants in the Atlanta area reside in appallingly uninhabitable apartments and houses. Their landlords many times blatantly violate Georgia law by failing to make repairs or keep premises in livable conditions. But because the tenants typically cannot afford attorneys, the landlords’ violations often go unchecked without intervention from civil legal services agencies. Limited resources, however, prevent full-time nonprofit agency attorneys from taking every case.
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