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Shasta County’s Housing Element
To protect affordable housing in Shasta County, PILP and Legal Services of Northern California filed a lawsuit to challenge the County’s lack of an adequate housing element and compel the rezoning to accommodate the 800 affordable units from the last planning period and over 300 units needed during the current planning period. Read about the case in the Record Searchlight. Learn More Here.
Who We Are
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
In 2011, Shasta County was several years late adopting its required housing element revision. Because of its tardy timeline, the County committed itself to rezoning sites to accommodate 800 units of higher density housing that could meet the unincorporated County’s … Read more
Four years ago, the Public Interest Law Project (PILP) began a special project to increase access to General Assistance (GA) benefits in rural areas. This program, also sometimes called General Relief (GR), provides critical aid to California’s lowest income individuals.… Read more
Monterey, CA – The Monterey County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution approving new aid payment standards for their General Assistance (GA) Program. The new aid payment standards are the result of a lawsuit filed in Superior Court on behalf … Read more
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PILP Is Hiring!
The Operations Director will be the chief financial and human resources officer, supervise support staff, and manage the communications of our organization, at an absolutely critical time for lower income people and communities. Our work helps keep people in affordable homes and protects their entitlement to public benefits.
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