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Los Angeles Ends Illegal Pocket Veto
The City of Los Angeles has finally dispensed with a longstanding illegal policy and practice that gave individual City Councilmembers unbridled power to decide if, whether, and where supportive and affordable housing projects are built in the City. Learn More Here.
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The Public Interest Law Project (PILP) provides crucial litigation and advocacy support to local legal services and public interest law programs throughout California. Our work brings affordable housing to lower income families and homeless people, provides access to services and public benefits for lower income persons and persons with disabilities, and protects neglected and abused children and persons displaced by major disasters and government action. Learn more
News and Updates
On July 12, 2019, the Northern District of California entered a stipulated preliminary injunction in Vannucci v. County of Sonoma, Case No. 3:18-cv-01955-VC, a civil rights lawsuit brought in spring of 2018 by homeless individuals and the advocacy organization … Read more
The California State Bar has released the Legal Aid Impact Report, reporting on cases closed in 2017
The California State Bar is excited to share the Legal Aid Impact Report. The report is based on the first full year of … Read more
The state will file companion litigation against the City of Huntington Beach accusing it of willfully refusing to comply with state housing law
January 25, 2019 – Kennedy Commission and low-income veterans, represented by The Public Interest Law Project, Public … Read more
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With the generous donations and grants we receive, PILP is able to ‘Advance justice for low-income people and communities.’
We would like to recognize and thank the following organizations and partners for their continued support:
- The San Francisco Foundation
- The State Bar of California
- van Loben Sels/RembeRock Foundation
- Walter S. Johnson Foundation
- Y & H Soda Foundation
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