; (6) in 2018, the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development began providing $5,800,000 to 10 nonprofit law firms to implement the voter-approved ballot measure to guarantee representation for all tenants facing eviction in the city; (7) in 2019, Los Angeles County, California, provided funding for pilot projects to provide legal assistance in eviction proceedings for individuals living below 80 percent of the median income in rent-burdened ZIP Codes; (8) in 2019, the Cleveland City Council established a right to legal services provided through city-funded legal aid programs for all tenants in eviction proceedings who have children and live at or below 100 percent of the Federal poverty guidelines; and (9) in 2019, the Philadelphia City Council established a right to legal services provided through city-funded legal aid programs for all tenants in eviction proceedings who live at or below 200 percent of the Federal poverty guidelines; Whereas access to free legal representation has successfully helped low-income individuals in the United States preserve the necessities of life, including that— (1) in New York City, during the first year of a city-funded program to provide counsel in eviction proceedings, 84 percent of the tenants who received a lawyer remained in their homes (21,955 individuals in 7,847 households); and (2) during the first 5 years of California’s Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act, adopted in 2009, 10 pilot projects served nearly 27,000 individuals in proceedings involving the loss of their homes, child custody disputes, or the urgent need for a family guardianship or conservatorship, with housing services alone affecting over 73,000 household members