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In 2021, Washington became the first state to pay for attorneys for low-income tenants facing eviction.

But as the eviction rate skyrockets in King County, there aren't enough attorneys to go around.

As Ann Dornfeld reports, some people have been

evicted while they're still on a wait list. Here's Anne.

Last November, Jessica Mitchell Butler got an eviction notice from the landlord of her

low-income apartment on Capitol Hill. It's nerve-wrecking, to say the least.

So I look things up and see what are my timeframes, what is this and this.

Mitchell Butler didn't think the landlord had grounds to evict her,

and the notice said she had the right to legal counsel.

She called the King County Bar Association's Housing Justice Project,

which assigns lawyers to low-income tenants facing eviction.

At her first court hearing in February, Mitchell Butler told the judge she was waiting to be

assigned an attorney and was told to come back to court in March. But at her second hearing,

in March, she was still waiting. Let's move on to number seven on the calendar, low-income housing institute versus Mitchell Butler.

Ms. Mitchell Butler, can you tell me, have you been able to speak with a lawyer from H.J.P?

I did, but they were not able to assign me with one yet.

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