The pandemic has raised the volume on the discussion of the nation's housing crisis, "and I think it's incumbent upon people who are doing this type of work to strike while the iron is hot," said Ben Danford with Legal Aid of East Tennessee.

The passage of the city of Chattanooga's budget Tuesday evening [September 2021] is helping scale up a program to prevent evictions in the community and to provide legal aid to residents.

Woodson Carpenter examines the Eviction Prevention Initiative in the Chattanooga area for the debut episode of "One for All" - a storytelling partnership between the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga and "Scenic Roots."

If you are a tenant who has received support from the Eviction Prevention Initiative or if you are a landlord who has been confronted with the difficult decision of whether to evict a tenant, your voices and experiences are essential in helping us to understand how to prevent evictions.