About 40,000 evictions are filed in Fulton County every year, and less than 2% of tenants served with an eviction Complaint have legal representation at their hearing; the vast majority of those tenants facing near-immediate dislocation are low-income and unrepresented. AVLF’s eviction defense program provides those tenants – sometimes in a matter of hours – with trained, highly-skilled eviction defense attorneys to represent them in court in their critical time of need. AVLF secures a positive outcome for nearly 100% of all eviction clients our volunteers represent. We seek to increase dramatically the number of tenants who are well-informed and represented by counsel.