Millions of households are behind on their rent and think they will be evicted in the next few months, wrote U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in an Aug. 30 letter to the legal community calling for volunteer services.
The American Bar Association supports his efforts, said ABA President Reginald M. Turner Jr. in a statement released Monday.
The communication follows the U.S. Supreme Court blocking a federal ban Aug. 27 on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
