Eviction Prevention Assistance

Legal aid advocate meeting with a family to discuss an eviction notice, with text reading ‘Eviction Prevention Program’ and icons representing legal assistance, tenant support, and housing resources.

Florida Legal Services recognizes the importance of safe, stable housing. The FLS Eviction Prevention Project provides crucial legal aid services to vulnerable residents across the state to protect them from eviction, including:

  • Education and outreach to tenants at imminent risk of eviction;

  • Access to improved technology to help prevent future barriers to renting;

  • Assistance to tenants to avoid or reduce the negative impacts of a potential eviction, such as referrals to other service providers like Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) administrators, when available, as well as comprehensive legal services in other areas;

  • Collaboration with courts, judges, and other parties to create and promote eviction diversion programs; and

  • Legal representation in relation to legal filings and court proceedings, including negotiation, mediation, or arbitration, and the provision of limited representation and counsel and advice, as well as assistance filing fair housing complaints related to eviction.

If you are at risk of eviction and need help, call the FLS Eviction Prevention Helpline at 1-888-780-0443.

We provide eviction prevention services to clients in the following counties: Alachua, Brevard, Dixie, Flagler, Gilchrist, Indian River, Lake, Levy, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Putnam, St. Johns, Seminole, Sumter, and Volusia.

Eviction Defense Form Builder

Jacksonville Area Legal Aid (JALA), a partner civil legal aid organization which shares our commitment to eviction prevention, has designed this Eviction Court Form Builder to help you provide an answer to an eviction notice.  It helps tenants provide their own timely answers to eviction complaints with a guided interview process and form-builder.