Inner City Law Center

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Our #ProBono Champion of the month is Angel Prado of Crowell & Moring, and he is making a big difference one tenant at a time at our Tenant Power Toolkit Clinic. #legalaid “I do pro bono because… having been raised in a working-class household in Los Angeles’s inner-city, this work has deep personal meaning and significance for me. Assisting underserved Angelenos avoid eviction helps to maintain shelter and dignity for the most vulnerable among us.” “I will never forget…helping worried tenants at the Toolkit Clinic. I often see tenants walk into the clinic with anxiety and fear about the prospect of being evicted from their home. Their expressions of relief and gratitude when I help – despite them facing such adversity – is why I contribute to the clinic.”

Congratulations to the Housing Rights Center on settling this Voucher Discrimination case for $197,500. Defendants also agreed to implement policies at their rental properties that promote fair housing practices. Recent testing in Los Angeles County found that Housing Choice voucher holders were explicitly discriminated against a whopping 70% of the time. Refusing to accept vouchers is illegal and must end. Congratulations to Rodney Leggett, Zack Frederick, Chancela Al-Mansour and ICLC Alum Javier Beltran. The complaint that HRC filed in Ventura Superior Court is attached. Kenneth Trujillo-Jamison, Aaron May, Aaron Carr, Kevin Kish, David Smith, Patti Prunhuber, Grant H., Grant Michaelson, Nisha Vyas. #Section8 #HousingJustice

Have you met our newest legal #Fellows? Please welcome: - Adriana Perera, University of California, Irvine School of Law class of 2024 - Annie Wiesenfeld, University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) class of 2023 - Arnold Esqueda, Golden Gate University, School of Law class of 2024 - Emma Quinn, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles class of 2024 - Jimi Peric Degen, University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law class of 2024 - Jenai Alford, Southwestern Law School class of 2023 - Kristen Storms, Esq., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles class of 2024 - María Reyes Olmedo, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles class of 2023 - Meena Morar, University of California, Davis - School of Law class of 2024 - Nathan Wong, University of California, Irvine School of Law class of 2024 - Pavan Tolani, University of Oregon School of Law class of 2024 - Roxana Martinez (Lopez), Southwestern Law School class of 2024 - Zita Zeng, Suffolk University Law School class of 2024

#Veteran Warnel first applied for VA disability benefits in 1989, but kept getting denied. He began working with Inner City Law Center in 2018, but died before he could receive justice. ICLC continued the fight on behalf of his widow, Garlena. Listen to Warnel & Garlena's story and help #veterans by making a gift to Inner City Law Center today: https://lnkd.in/gqTmgNC3

Congratulations to Michael De Vries of Kirkland & Ellis, a valued #probono partner here at Inner City Law Center. LLPhttps://lnkd.in/gqNBX-Tz

Our #ProBono partners transform lives when they donate their time to Inner City Law Center clients. Most recently, Pro Bono partner Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP was able to secure a discharge upgrade to 'honorable' for an ICLC #veteran client in crisis. https://lnkd.in/edmSZkMD

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Congratulations to the Inner City Law Center #Fellows who recently passed the bar and were sworn in as attorneys! Here they are with Inner City Law Center CEO Adam Murray and Legal Director of the Tenant Defense Project Rob Reed. The newly minted attorneys are: - Arnold Esqueda of Golden Gate University, School of Law - 'Michala' Kristen Storms, Esq. of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles - Meena Morar of University of California, Davis - School of Law - Nathan Wong of University of California, Irvine School of Law - Jimi Peric Degen of University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law Special thanks to Fellow María Reyes Olmedo (in the cheetah print) for showing up to support support the other Fellows!

Two great rulings! The City of Los Angeles erred in disapproving the building of 360 Affordable Rental Units in Canoga Park and 78 rental units in Sun Valley. These are all affordable housing units that would not require any public subsidy! We should be embracing and scaling this approach to creating 100% affordable housing. Instead the City continues to resist allowing any affordable housing on 72% of residentially zoned land in the City. We must do better in order to build the affordable housing needed to end our homeless crisis. Congratulations to ICLC Board-Alum Geoff Stover and the other attorneys on the case Ryan Patterson and Brian O'Neill. Court’s ruling is attached for any housing policy wonks who want to see the details. André F. Bueno, Jeff Zbikowski, AIA, Mahdi Abbas Manji, Shane Henson, Shane Phillips, Azeen Khanmalek, AICP, Muhammad T. Alameldin #LegalizeApartments #HousingJustice