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Today we're going to housing court. South Carolina is in the midst of an eviction crisis, and special dockets within local courts have been set up to hear case after case of residential evictions. We'll listen in on some high-stakes, high-stress cases. On the second half of the episode, our guest is Charlotte Martin, a renter and organizer with the South Carolina Housing Justice Network. We're talking about how tenants can build power and protect each other's rights. Music credits: A Spot on the Hill and Daft Hartley. For more information about the S.C. Housing Justice Network, visit ⁠SCHJN.com⁠. To write your lawmaker in support of Eviction Right to Counsel, visit ⁠ACLUSC.org/eviction⁠.

The eviction crisis is ongoing in South Carolina. Our first guest today is Tony Jones, a student at the University of South Carolina School of Law who has a deeply frustrating story to share involving South Carolina's landlord-tenant laws. In the second half of the show, we have an interview with Michelle Mapp about what Eviction Right to Counsel means and how we can achieve it. Use this link to write your lawmaker about Eviction Right to Counsel and South Carolina House Bill 3844, which could make that right a reality: aclusc.org/eviction Our study on the economic benefits of Eviction Right to Counsel: ⁠https://www.aclusc.org/en/south-carolina-renters-should-have-right-legal-counsel-when-facing-eviction⁠ Eviction Lab study on serial eviction filings in Charleston, S.C., and Birmingham, AL: ⁠https://evictionlab.org/serial-eviction-filings/ Music credits: A Spot on the Hill, Daft Hartley

Being homeless in the capital city of South Carolina means having your rights curtailed. Your daily decisions about where to sit, eat, or sleep are in part made up for you; your range of movement is limited; and your actions are closely monitored by police. One wrong move and you’re arrested, spending the night in one of the most dangerous jails in South Carolina. Being homeless in Columbia is, in short, a civil liberties nightmare. This week on the podcast, we’re diving into the root causes of homelessness and the eviction crisis. Our guests are homeless aid provider Regi- Solis and Glynnis Hagins of the South Carolina NAACP. For more information about South Carolina housing justice issues, visit our Housing Justice landing page. For more about Columbia’s ineffective, inhumane, illegal response to homelessness, see our open letter Homes, Not Handcuffs. If you would like to push for housing justice in our state, ask your state lawmaker to cosponsor House Bill 3844, guaranteeing Eviction Right to Counsel. Music by Daft Hartley and A Spot on the Hill

“While I Breathe, I Hope.” It’s the state motto of South Carolina. It’s about surviving and fighting and overcoming despair. This is Paul Bowers from the ACLU of South Carolina, here to announce we’re starting a podcast. It’s called While I Breathe. It’ll be a wide-ranging program about the most important civil rights and civil liberties issues of our time. We’ll feature interviews with people living and working on the front lines. I hope you’ll join me as we learn a few things and get to work building the state we deserve. The first several episodes will be about housing justice. We live in a national hotspot for evictions, and we want to change that, in part by guaranteeing more civil liberties for people facing eviction from their homes. I can’t wait for you to hear it. Go ahead and subscribe via the links below, and you’ll be hearing from us soon. APPLE PODCASTS SPOTIFY OTHER PODCAST APPS NOTE - If the podcast is not yet available on your preferred listening app, try copying and pasting this RSS feed link into the search bar in your app: https://anchor.fm/s/f3c9f088/podcast/rss