A Miami lawyer’s efforts to rectify and bring attention to the city’s affordable housing crisis are beginning to be noticed by public officials around the country.

Kelly King, who serves as council chairwoman in Hawaii’s County of Maui, has publicly expressed interest in retaining foreclosure defense attorney Bruce Jacobs in her own municipality’s efforts to hold banking institutions accountable for issuing predatory loans and causing an upsurge in foreclosures. On Thursday King sent a letter to Miami Commissioner Ken Russell commending Jacobs’ work as well as the city of Miami’s legal actions against Bank of America and Wells Fargo.