by csjadmin | Jun 22, 2021 | News, Story of The Month
CSJ is in the news again with the work we are doing to let people know about their housing rights and programs that will help them stay in their home if they are being evicted. The New Bedford Light covered went out with our canvasser and met people willing to share...
by csjadmin | Jun 21, 2021 | Housing, News
“’There are still many people out there facing eviction,’ said Diana Painter, deputy director for the Coalition for Social Justice, one of many housing advocate groups in the area working to connect tenants with legal services and rental relief programs...
by csjadmin | Jun 21, 2021 | Housing, News, Welfare
“’Most don’t know about the programs available until they are already in (housing) court.’ That much was clear for Sigute Meilus, with the Coalition for Social Justice, who on a rainy June afternoon was knocking on the doors of renters facing eviction,...
by csjadmin | May 25, 2021 | Childcare, News
“‘I’m the 99 percent that doesn’t have a trust fund,’ Bethany said, ‘and these are basic human rights. Every other civilization has figured it out. Are the people who decide policy, who have paid leave thanks to my taxes, telling me I’m not...
by csjadmin | May 11, 2021 | Childcare, News
“…while individual companies in the United States grant 17% of civilian workers paid family leave, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and at least nine states have enacted laws providing the benefit, the U.S. remains the only industrialized...
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