On October 28th, HOME Line hosted a free webinar to share information about current legal issues that Minnesota renters are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This week HOME Line Housing Attorney Andrea Palumbo discussed the evictions filed since the pandemic. Andrea has worked with HOME Line since early 2019 and has focused on eviction prevention work, advising over 1,200 Minnesota tenants on evictions in the last two years. Joining Andrea was third-year U of M law student Leah DeGrazia, a fellow with the Saeks Public Interest Residency Program, who has helped research these cases. She began working with HOME Line this summer, shortly after the pandemic began.
This 90-minute webinar offered updates on the current law concerning evictions in Minnesota along with a look back at the number of evictions filed since the pandemic began, focusing on what exceptions landlords have relied upon to file. We also fielded a variety of questions. Slides and other links/materials from the webinar are included below the video. 1.5 Continuing Legal Education credits have been approved for this seminar.
Please join us for our next COVID-19 tenant/landlord webinar on Wednesday, November 18th – Eviction Moratorium: Training Lawyers to Represent Tenants Pro Bono when the Eviction Wave Hits, with guest speaker Lawrence McDonough, Senior Minnesota Counsel, National Anti-Eviction Project, Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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Links/Materials discussed during the webinar:
- Slides from the presentation
- Answers to questions submitted in advance and during the webinar (updated 11/3/20)
- HOME Line’s general COVID-19 information/resource page
- Recordings of our previous webinars
- To apply for the Minnesota COVID-19 Housing Assistance Program:
Call 211 (Toll Free: 1.800.543.7709; Local: 651.291.0211)
Visit 211unitedway.org
Text “MNRENT” or “MNHOME” to 898-211 - Hennepin County emergency/COVID-19 rental assistance application
- Ramsey County emergency/COVID-19 rental assistance application:
- A list of county-based emergency financial assistance resources within the 7-county metro.
- For submitting complaints about evictions/lease terminations, contact the MN Attorney General: Eviction complaint form
(651) 296-3353 (Twin Cities Calling Area)
(800) 657-3787 (Outside the Twin Cities) - Public court record access via MNCIS
- List/links to all of Minnesota’s Executive Orders
- 3/24/20 Executive order 20-14 (rescinded by EO 20-79, below)
- 6/5/20 Executive order 20-73 (rescinded by EO 20-79, below)
- 8/4/20: Emergency Executive Order 20-79 (current eviction suspension order)
- HOME Line’s FAQ on the current eviction suspension executive order (EO 20-79)
- Emergency Executive Order 20-92: Extending the COVID-19 Peacetime Emergency Declared in Executive Order 20-01 (extending the peacetime emergency declaration, suspension of evictions, and landlord-initiated lease terminations until November 12th)
- Executive Order 20-81, mask/face covering requirements
- HOME Line’s FAQ on mask requirements in rental housing
- Law Help MN: Page on Renters Rights and Court
If you are a renter in Minnesota and you have a question about your specific housing situation, please contact our free tenant hotline: 612-728-5767 or via email. Also, some general rental housing information regarding COVID-19 is available here.
We hope this training was helpful to you. Please consider giving a tax-deductible donation to support our work.