It’s National Pro Bono Week! #probono is vital to Inner City Law Center’s ability to serve Angelenos impacted by Los Angeles County’s housing crisis. In 2022 alone, more than 830 attorneys, students, legal support staff, and non-legal volunteers spent more than 14,700 hours advocating for ICLC clients who lack access to safe and affordable housing. Through their tireless advocacy, they served hundreds of clients, helping them access vital resources and public benefits, and overcome obstacles to income and housing. #nationalprobonoweek
Inner City Law Center
Legal Services
Los Angeles, CA 1,438 followers
We fight for justice for tenants, working poor families, immigrants, people who are homeless or disabled & veterans.
About us
The only provider of legal services on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, Inner City Law Center combats slum housing while developing strategies to end homelessness. Inner City Law Center is recognized for our expertise in housing issues, veterans’ benefits, and homelessness prevention. Our staff of 40, including 20 attorneys, provides quality legal representation for people who have nowhere else to turn. We fight for justice for low-income tenants, working poor families, immigrants, people who are homeless or disabled, and veterans. Driven by the fundamental principle that every person should always be treated with dignity and respect, ICLC works for long-term, positive, and meaningful change. With your help and generous support, we will continue to: - Create safe, healthy, and affordable housing. - Help homeless veterans get off the streets. - Prevent families from being evicted into homelessness.
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http://www.innercitylaw.org
External link for Inner City Law Center
- Industry
- Legal Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, CA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1980
- Specialties
- Homeless Prevention, Tenants Rights, Homeless Veterans, Housing Policy, Slum Housing Litigation, Public Benefits, and Eviction Prevention
Locations
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Primary
1309 East Seventh Street
Los Angeles, CA 90021, US
Employees at Inner City Law Center
Updates
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James Unger is Inner City Law Center's Pro Bono Champion of the Month! James has been a longstanding advocate for ICLC’s clients and works tirelessly to protect the rights of low-income tenants. “I do pro bono because…often those who need lawyers the most, have the least access to representation. With the privilege of practicing law comes the responsibility to use our skills and resources to serve the community. Additionally, I can say some of the most interesting cases and most satisfying victories of my career have been through pro bono cases.” “I most appreciate being able to steer ICLC cases to young associates at our firm and then watch those associates learn that they already have the life-changing power to help someone stay in their home.” #probono #probonochampion
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Gabriella Ruiz* is a a single mother raising five children and a monolingual Spanish speaker. Two of her children have disabilities, so their family depends on SSI, CalWORKS, and part-time IHSS work to live. Following Gabriella’s divorce last year, she began experiencing health issues and was hospitalized. She became unable to work for a short while, causing the family to fall behind on rent. Right away, the family’s landlord began the eviction process. On September 11th, Gabriella walked through the doors of Inner City Law Center. Her trail was scheduled for September 15th. By September 13, our lawyers had negotiated a payment plan and settlement with Gabriella’s landlord, convincing him to dismiss the entire case! On September 14, only days after Inner City Law Center took on the client (and before her landlord had even received payment), the case was dismissed. The landlord has now provided Gabriella with a new lease agreement. Unfortunately, the new agreement contained a massive rent increase. Right now, our lawyers are investigating this as a violation of rental increase laws and trying to negotiate a lower rent for Gabriella’s family. Our lawyers are also working to secure future rental assistance for Gabriella’s family and arranging to have their rent debt paid off. With just a little help and some breathing room, Gabriella can focus on getting her health and finances sorted so her family can get back on their feet. * Names have been changed. We take client privacy seriously and make these changes to protect client confidentiality. #clientstory #clientsuccessstory
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🚨PRO BONO ALERT🚨 Inner City Law Center, a participant of Mayor Karen Bass’ We Are LA Pro Bono Program designed to tackle our city’s homelessness crisis, will be co-hosting several upcoming trainings for attorneys interested in serving as pro bono counsel for low-income tenants. Get more info at the registration links below! Tuesday, October 17 (12:00 –1:00 PM): https://lnkd.in/gqJTzAib Monday, October 23 (5:00 – 6:00 PM): https://lnkd.in/gUMeGsBc If you are an attorney licensed in California who wants to advocate for our clients and is ready to take on a pro bono matter, sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gk6ryzpx
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#BreakingNews: California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed affordable housing bills SB 4 and SB 423 into law. https://lnkd.in/gnGQkgKW “This is a big victory for us; the creation of more affordable housing is the most important puzzle piece to solving homelessness in California,” said Inner City Law Center CEO Adam Murray. “That’s why Inner City Law Center has been such a strong supporter of SB 4 and SB 423.” We were honored to work with Sen. Scott Wiener, Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH), Southern California Association of NonProfit Housing (SCANPH), and Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California (JPAC) to pass groundbreaking affordable housing #policy. #housingpolicy #affordablehousing
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Homelessness is solvable. We can build a different future. Communities are proving it. Join us in telling a story about what is at stake and what is possible .🏠💪#HomelessnessIsSolvable #WorldHomelessnessDay CostsOfHomelessness.org
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TOMORROW, Oct 10th: Inner City Law Center's own Director of Public Policy, Mahdi Abbas Manji, will join the Terner Center for Housing Innovation's distinguished panel of experts to discuss the future of California #housingpolicy! Register here: https://lnkd.in/g_x2v4nR
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WE DID IT! CA Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the #HomelessnessPreventionAct #SB567 into law. Despite the influence and money of corporate landlords and billionaires trying to stop it, thousands of grassroots leaders and everyday Californians showed up and fought for tenant protections AND WON! #housingpolicy
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ICLC is excited to welcome it's 2023 class of legal #Fellows! This year, we are joined by eleven amazing individuals who come from law schools across the country. They will join us for the next two years, fighting unlawful evictions, helping unhoused people access vital documents, and working to remove barriers to housing. #fellowship #probono #LegalAid Please welcome: - Derrick Moon from University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings); Class of 2023 - Hannah Pickett from University of Utah; Class of 2023 - Herbert Martinez from Southwestern Law School; Class of 2023 - Isa Badia Bellinger from Harvard Law School; Class of 2023 - Jenna (Myers) Karvunidis from Southwestern Law School; Class of 2023 - Metta D. Girma from University of Washington School of Law; Class of 2023 - Rachael Krishnan from Southwestern Law School; Class of 2022 - Sevitha Konda from Boston University School of Law; Class of 2023 - Joseph Kim from University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law; Class of 2023 - Ishvaku Vashishtha from University of California, Berkeley - School of Law; Class of 2023
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Another client victory! After five long years, Lawrence has finally received his disability benefits, $75,000 in back pay, and, most importantly—justice. Read the whole story here: https://lnkd.in/g8VEgfSC #disabilityrights #ICLC #clientstories #clientspotlight
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