Tenant Advocacy Project

The Harvard Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP) is a student practice organization dedicated to representing residents of publicly subsidized housing before local housing authorities. We provide badly needed assistance to low- and moderate-income tenants who are facing eviction or who have been denied admission to public housing or a subsidy program. TAP also provides advice on general landlord-tenant questions.

Through varied interactions with tenants and local housing authorities, our members develop a wide range of important advocacy skills, including client interviewing, witness examination, oral argument, and negotiations. TAP is one of the few clinical organizations that offers 1L members the invaluable opportunity to do hands-on lawyering by handling every aspect of their cases from the initial client interview to the trial-like hearing. Our advising attorneys and more experienced students work with new TAP members, giving them plenty of advice and feedback.

Students volunteer during the school year and three students are employed during the summer. Students are instructed by attorneys Marcia Peters and Lynn Weissberg. Betty Blake is the Administrator in charge of coordinating clinical activities.

For more information, please contact:

The Harvard Tenant Advocacy Project Harvard Law School Austin Hall, Room 009 1515 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-4394     617-496-2294 (Fax)