News & Events

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…

The North Carolina House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee has passed a provision in the 2017 budget entitled “Eliminate Access to Civil Justice Funds.” If enacted as written, this provision would eliminate $1.7 million in combined funding for Pisgah Legal Services,…