(Please Note: We post “Client Victories” each Monday on our Facebook and Twitter pages) JG was on the wait list for a Section 8 housing voucher for approximately 10 years when she came to intake and met with volunteer attorney Natalie Popovic.  She told Ms. Popovic that she had come in for a Section 8 interview three years prior but that every time she called the Housing Authority (DCHA) to find out when she’d be receiving her...

By Andy Silver, Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless Staff Attorney Imagine that you have lived in the same apartment for 12 years. One day you go to the rental office to ask if you can pay your rent a few days late because you get one check at the beginning of the month and one check in the middle. You have asked for this favor several times before and it has always been granted, but this time the new property manager says she just needs...