Know Your Rights/Fair Housing Overview with Pine Tree Legal Assistance

Do you rent? Do you have questions about your rights as tenant? Do you wonder if what you have experienced is discrimination? Come learn the basics about tenant’s rights in rental housing and housing discrimination with Pine Tree Legal Assistance.

About the guest speakers:

Jack Haycock (they/them) is a Downeast local turned community lawyer. A 3rd generation graduate of Sumner Memorial High School in Sullivan, Jack went on to undergraduate studies at Smith College and then earned their law degree at Northeastern University School of Law. After nearly a decade working on Pine Tree’s educational resources, websites, and client-facing technology, Jack made the leap to local practice last year and is now the staff attorney in our Machias area office.

Neal (they/them) is Pine Tree’s Fair Housing Testing, Outreach, and Education Coordinator. neal has been involved in fair housing work since 2014 as an investigator at the Maine Human Rights Commission and then PTLA’s Enforcement Attorney from February 2022 until February 2025. Neal graduated from Bates College with a degree in Women’s Studies and earned their law degree at New York Law School.