Legal Aid Among Services to Take On Youth Homelessness in MT
“A federal grant is helping Montana tackle homelessness among the state’s young people.
The Treasure State was chosen as a rural recipient of a $3.4 million grant from the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project, created by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Nichole Heyer is navigator of the project for Montana Legal Services Association. She said it’s unique for a legal organization to be associated with the project – and important because legal services can be barriers to getting housed.
Heyer said working with a landlord, for instance, can be tough for young people.
‘The power dynamics within the relationship of a landlord and a tenant are pretty skewed,” said Heyer, “just given that this person decides whether you get to remain in their rental or not.'”