RHLS in the News

• RHLS co-sponsored a webinar discussing ways to protect the rights of manufactured housing community residents on April 16, 2010. You can view the webinar online (a short registration is required).
  

• On April 9, RHLS co-sponsored a training that taught participants how to access over $20 Million of state weatherization funds for multi-family buildings.

• On April 1, RHLS held a regional forum on transit-oriented development. The booklet from the forum is now available online.

• Mark Schwartz, RHLS Executive Director, Bridget Coyne, staff attorney, and Carol A. Gershon, pro bono attorney, received an Excellence Award from the Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network (PLAN) for their work on the Wood Street Commons preservation project in Pittsburgh.

• Harry Geller, Executive Director of PULP, published an article entitled, "Electric Rate Caps Ending Locally in 2011" in the Northwestern Legal Services Access to Justice Newsletter.

• Mark Schwartz, RHLS Executive Director, is quoted in a CNN.com article discussing HEMAP.

• Harry Geller, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project (PULP), testifies about LIHEAP before the Pennsylvania Senate's Public Health and Welfare Committee.

• Bob Damewood, RHLS Staff Attorney, is being honored with a 2010 Beacon of Hope Award by the Hill House Association.

"Do more to stop foreclosures" Philadelphia Inquirer, June 20, 2009 (letter to the editor)

National Penn Bank recently announced an award of $75,000 in corporate support to Regional Housing Legal Services (RHLS) through the State’s Neighborhood Assistance Program (NAP). The funds from National Penn will support affordable housing developments, neighborhood revitalization and economic development through nonprofit community-based organizations in Chester, Bucks and Montgomery.

At the recent check presentation and award announcement last week (L to R) RHLS Chief Counsel Mark Levin, RHLS Executive Director Mark Schwartz, National Penn Community Reinvestment Officer Sharon McMichael and Deputy Secretary of PA Department of Community and Economic Development Ken Klothen and PA Housing Finance Agency Executive Director Brian Hudson.

As seen in The Legal Intelligencer, March 21, 2008

"Tax Credits Offer Law Firms & Companies Incentive to Support Revitalization Efforts" The Philadelphia Lawyer, Winter 2008 

"Avoiding Foreclosure - Without Bankruptcy" Pennsylvania Lawyer, July/August 2007

"Legal Services Lawyers Support Community-Based Neighborhood Revitalization Efforts" The Journal of the Allegheny County Bar Association, June 8, 2007

"HEMAP Helps Families Experiencing Hard Luck to Save Their Homes" Legal Intelligencer, March 5, 2007

"Section 3 Works Better When Providing Career Opportunities" HDR Current Developments, February 2, 2007

"Making Tax Credits Work for the Disabled" Shelterforce, Winter 2006