; and Whereas the unprecedented health and economic crises caused by the COVID–19 pandemic are compounding and intensifying the legal needs of low-income individuals, including that— (1) millions more individuals and families will become eligible for legal assistance through legal aid programs due to lost jobs, furloughed employees, and medical debt; (2) more than 30,000,000 individuals filed for unemployment benefits during the period beginning on March 15, 2020, and ending on April 25, 2020; (3) millions of individuals are unable to make rent or mortgage payments and are at risk of, or are facing, eviction or foreclosure proceedings; (4) according to an analysis of over 13,000,000 housing units nationwide conducted by the National Multifamily Housing Council, 31 percent of tenants failed to pay rent during the first 5 days of April 2020, compared with 18 percent of tenants who failed to pay rent during the same period in 2019; (5) according to a survey completed in St. Louis, Missouri, 45 percent of renters do not have enough money in savings to pay rent for even a single month; (6) police departments across the United States are seeing dramatic increases in reports of domestic violence while, as of April 10, 2020, over 90 percent of individuals are subject to stay-at-home orders; and (7) a survey of the requests for legal assistance received by Legal Services Corporation grantees during the last two weeks of March 2020, compared with the requests received during the same time period in 2019, showed that— (A) Legal Services of Vermont had a 50-percent increase in requests for legal assistance; (B) Legal Aid of Arkansas had a 13.2-percent increase in overall requests for legal assistance and a 50-percent increase in requests for housing-related cases; and (C) Montana Legal Services had a 30-percent increase in demand for legal aid, with most cases involving evictions, domestic violence, consumer debt, and unemployment benefits: Now, therefore, be it