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This disaster is going to daisy chain into a huge number of legal issues that are going to show up over a period of days, weeks and months. Right now there are going to be many landlord-tenant issues: people who don’t think they should give back the security deposit for flooded properties. There will be people who will try to kick out their tenants because their brother-in-law needs some place to stay. There’s going to be a severe shortage of rental space in the community.”
— Saundra Brown, disaster manager at Lone Star Legal Aid, tells the Houston Chronicle about the legal issue left in the wake of the historically devastating Hurricane Harvey. Remember there are pro bono opportunities for out-of-state lawyers who want to help.
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