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Fighting Cuts to Welfare
Through high-impact litigation and advocacy with local partners such as the Stop the GA (General Assistance) Cuts Coalition of Alameda County, our work has protected indigent recipients of General Assistance throughout California from unlawful termination and homelessness. 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
Current Developments: Going forward, the state agrees to stop collections of parents’ CalWorks debts against former minors. No refunds of money already collected, and state still pursuing current minors no longer living in the overpaid household.… Read more
In 1980, the City of Sunnyvale adopted an ordinance requiring new housing development to make 12.5% of units affordable or otherwise pay an in-lieu. A developer challenged the ordinance in 2009 claiming the requirement was unconstitutional. After the trial court … Read more
On May 26, 2011, General Assistance recipients in Alameda County won a significant legal victory which will protect thousands of GA recipients throughout California from becoming homeless due to an illegal county policy. In an eloquent, unanimous opinion, in Cleary … Read more
Spotlight
DAN PEARLMAN, BOARD CHAIR:
Dan Pearlman has served on PILP’s Board since its inception in 1986. Elected chair in 2011, Dan exhibits great passion for PILP’s work and lends his valuable knowledge and insight in furthering our mission. Following his service with the Peace Corps in Liberia, Dan spent a summer working with the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee where he developed his interest in public interest law. Dan worked to further low-income housing rights of low-income persons for many years at the National Housing Law Project.
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