Baltimore court expands tenant aid in housing cases
“The navigator program is among several initiatives launched last year by the Maryland Judiciary to address that inequity in the busy district court downtown, where nearly 151,000 landlord-tenant cases are processed each year in Baltimore, almost a quarter of all such cases in the state and third most in Maryland. Still, some advocates criticize the new assistance efforts as inadequate to help low-income tenants who typically come to court without a lawyer to face off against landlords who usually understand the system.”