EPISODE 4 of Homegrown Tales (formerly known as Homegrown): More than 7.9 million people were left unemployed between 2020 to 2021 due to the worldwide health outbreak of coronavirus. That left tenants without a way to pay rent, and property owners and landlords scrambling to pay the mortgage and utilities for both. In Shamontiel's fourth episode of “Homegrown: An Ode to Sugarbowl Sam,” Melvin Sims, a tenants-rights attorney I’d previously interviewed for CBS Chicago, had valuable insight on this issue.

Join us as we talk about the Cook County Residential Tenant Landlord Ordinance, the national eviction moratorium linked to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, what the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has to say about tenant evictions, and how law firms like his are helping landlords and tenants. For more information on Melvin, check out Shamontiel's ⁠Substack series "Homegrown Tales."⁠