by Maura Dunnigan | Feb 14, 2021 | Latest News
Detention fees unfairly burden poor people | COMMENTARY By DOUG COLBERT and COLIN STARGER FOR THE BALTIMORE SUN | JAN 29, 2021 AT 6:24 AM Irvin Haygood looks through receipts that he paid at his Dundalk apartment as he fights to regain his life with the weight of...
by Shelly Hettleman | Aug 4, 2020 | Latest News
By SHEILAH KAST & MAUREEN HARVIE At the end of this month, hundreds of thousands of Maryland renters may be called to court for failure to pay rent. State Senator Shelly Hettlemen represents Baltimore County. She leads a workgroup advocating for a dozen actions to... by Shelly Hettleman | Jul 31, 2020 | Latest News
As the nation is struggling with high unemployment which is leading to people falling behind on their rent payments, the State Senate’s Housing Workgroup released a report this week with ideas on how to avoid mass evictions. Senator Shelly Hettleman and...
by Shelly Hettleman | Jul 28, 2020 | Latest News
By SHELLY HETTLEMAN I know of a renter in Baltimore who is two months behind in rent and has diabetes among many underlying health conditions. Reliant on Social Security disability and income from her college-aged daughter who is unable to find employment, she faces a...
by Shelly Hettleman | Jun 17, 2020 | Latest News
New law to end discriminatory insurance coverage 06.17.2020 In a victory for people seeking in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in Maryland, the Center for Reproductive Rights, working in partnership with the Women’s Law Center of Maryland, helped to pass a bill that...
by Shelly Hettleman | Feb 27, 2020 | Latest News
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The House of Delegates voted Thursday overwhelmingly in favor of extending insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization for unmarried people. The legislation also decreases the time any woman must try and fail to conceive by other methods before...
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