By combining our expertise with community-based legal services programs and the resources of private firms, our low-income clients enjoy the highest and most effective level of representation.
In addition to bringing courtroom victories to our clients, our group ensures that attorneys for local legal aid organizations learn how they can bring effective impact litigation to achieve maximum results for their clients.
Through our California Affordable Housing Law Project (CAHLP), we coordinate an ongoing statewide legal strategy to enforce California’s “fair share” housing element law, state and federal relocation assistance laws, and state redevelopment law. The resulting judgments and settlements have compelled counties and cities to zone for, initiate and finance the development of affordable housing throughout the state for California’s poorest households.
Our litigation and policy work in this area focuses on disability rights, protection of foster youth, health care, subsistence benefits such as general assistance and, more recently, disaster relief for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
