“’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, offering to connect them directly with rental relief programs and legal services.
She pulled up a map on her phone, popping with icons of small gray houses. Each one indicated a renter who was facing eviction. In this small but densely populated neighborhood between Cove Street and Brock Avenue in New Bedford’s South End, more than 35 individual homes had been served notices of eviction within the last month.”
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