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The Housing Rights Clinic is not taking new cases at this time.
The USD Law Housing Rights Clinic provides low-income community members with assistance with housing instability and related issues. Unfortunately, the Housing Rights Clinic cannot assist community members with housing issues not listed below.
What Does the Housing Rights Clinic Do?
- Homelessness
- Eviction
- Foreclosure
- Threats to housing like uninhabitability and harassment
2025 Housing Rights Clinic Award Winner
Working at the Housing Rights Clinic as a Student
The Housing Rights Clinic provides students with opportunities to represent clients facing housing instability, including homelessness, eviction, foreclosure, and threats to housing like uninhabitability and harassment. Students will get hands-on experience interviewing clients, drafting pleadings, propounding and responding to discovery, motion practice, negotiation, and trial experience. Students will also have the opportunity to conduct outreach and education and help tenants organize and pursue their housing rights. The class will meet once a week as a group to learn about housing law and advocacy and to discuss case management and strategize on negotiation, litigation, and trial. The class meets a second time each week during set office hours to receive one-on-one training from the professor and litigation team on their caseload.
Prerequisites
- None