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Bozeman tenants urge full funding of right-to-counsel program at City Commission meeting
Summary
Multiple tenants and housing advocates urged the Bozeman City Commission to fully fund a right-to-counsel program for tenants facing eviction, saying mediation alone is insufficient and recounting personal threats of eviction and poor landlord practices.
Speakers at the June 3 Bozeman City Commission meeting urged commissioners to fully fund a tenant right-to-counsel program that would provide legal representation to renters facing eviction, saying partial or mediation-only approaches would not protect tenants who face bad-faith landlord practices.
“Tenant right to counsel is not just for the 60 families that Bozeman's landlords are expected to evict this year. Tenant right to counsel is for every tenant who has had the threat of eviction wielded against them,” said Jacob Burgo, a leader with Bozeman Tenants United, recounting an experience in which he felt…
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