PLS News

Join Pisgah Legal Services immigration law experts for a lunch session to learn how changes to immigration policies and enforcement are affecting our neighbors. Friday, March 23rd | 12-1:30pm Trinity Episcopal Church 60 Church St.| Downtown Asheville Suggested Donation: $10/person Lunch provided by Green Opportunities…

28th Judicial District Bar Current Topics in Landlord/Tenant Law & Ethics CLE February 16, 2018 – 8:30am -1:15pm First Presbyterian Church, 40 Church Street, Asheville, NC 28801 Pisgah Legal Services and the 28th Judicial District Bar will co-host a Landlord/Tenant…

Chef John Fleer of Rhubarb hosted a special evening of drinks and hors d’oeuvres to celebrate the start of Pisgah Legal Services’ 40th Anniversary year. During the event, PLS attorney Anne Salter shared client stories about Pisgah Legal’s recent medical-legal…

A Benefit to Help our Immigrant Neighbors Join us January 20 as we transform Habitat Tavern & Commons (174 Broadway St.) to an international food court for an afternoon. Sample a passport’s worth of international flavor, made lovingly by our…

The new newsletter is hitting mail boxes this week, but you can read it first here. It includes Melissa’s story, a Pisgah Legal client who went from being almost homeless to now being a homeowner, a message from our Executive…

Pisgah Legal Services Board President Lee Anne Mangone was a guest columnist for the Asheville Citizen-Times discussing the consequences of state funding cuts to legal aid and what that means for our low-income neighbors. Read the whole article here.

The 2017 Fall Newsletter is now available online! The edition features the stories of Pisgah Legal clients facing evictions, the broad affordable housing issues troubling Western North Carolina, and state funding cuts that threaten Pisgah Legal’s ability to help. Read…

The 2017 Poverty Forum features Princeton sociologist and Pulitzer-Prize winning author Dr. Matthew Desmond and discusses affordable housing issues in WNC. Jennifer Bowman recently featured the Poverty Forum in the Asheville Citizen-Times. Click here to read the article. Get your…

Last week, the WUNC Politics Podcast featured Jeremy Loeb from Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR). The conversation turned to state cuts of legal aid funding which are affecting Pisgah Legal Services. Listen to the podcast here, starting at the 18:20…

This week Rick Guthy, one of the founders of Wicked Weed Brewing in Asheville, presented Pisgah Legal Services with a check for $50,000.  “We want to sincerely thank the Guthy family and Wicked Weed for their extremely generous gift,” said…