Housing Attorney
About the role
HOME Line is a non-profit, non-partisan, statewide tenant advocacy organization with over three decades of experience providing free legal advice, education, and organizing support to renters. HOME Line’s free and confidential tenant hotline has advised over 372,000 renter households throughout the state since 1992, and currently averages around 1,700 new client households per month.
A HOME Line full-time housing attorney will advise and assist tenants throughout the State of Minnesota with their legal housing challenges. This employee will receive on-the-job education and training on Minnesota Tenant/Landlord Law and in turn use these skills to assist renters. The position will be supervised directly by HOME Line’s Managing Attorney and work alongside HOME Line’s staff, including other attorneys, advocates, interns, and volunteers.
The workplace consists of a typical office environment (HOME Line’s office is located just off of the METRO Blue Line in Bloomington), with full or hybrid work-from-home/in-office schedule opportunities available. Time spent on the computer/online is approximately 90%, with some in-person meeting/event opportunities. Reasonable accommodations available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
What makes HOME Line a great place to work
- Mission-driven organization passionate about ensuring renters have safe, dignified, and affordable access to housing
- Flexibility in how employees carry out their work
- Values of equity and justice with continuous learning
- Mentorship and ongoing professional development opportunities
Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
- Provide assistance and legal advice to tenants through HOME Line’s tenant hotline and eviction prevention project
- Perform data intake with clients and maintain client records
- Prepare pro se clients for court and/or negotiations with landlords
Secondary Responsibilities
- Assist in training and supporting staff and volunteers working on the tenant hotline
- Keep informed on updates to tenant/landlord law and rental housing issues
- Support HOME Line public education and landlord-tenant trainings
- Be available to provide landlord-tenant law trainings to a variety of people including in-person and webinar trainings
- Support broader organizing and advocacy efforts in collaboration with HOME Line tenant organizing, tenant hotline, research, public policy staff, volunteers, and interns
- Support Co-Executive Directors in managing relevant grants
- Ensure that required reports and other required data are complete and accurate and are submitted in a timely fashion