Alameda County Tenant Rights and the Homelessness Task Force

This month, BayLegal’s social media feeds have featured stories and resources from our Alameda County Tenant Rights initiatives. If you aren’t following us on Facebook or LinkedIn, the images below give a sense of what this housing law work has meant for clients in Alameda County who have faced disability discrimination, unlawful “self-help” evictions, and potential loss of housing subsidies.

There are also stories to tell about how this work supports large-scale, long-term efforts to change the entrenched systems that lead so many of our Alameda County neighbors to become housing burdened, precariously housed, or unhoused. For a look at one of these bigger stories, we encourage readers to have a look at our Homelessness Task Force page. In this multi-practice, systemic approach, our housing law teams in Alameda County and throughout our Bay Area service region collaborate with practice teams in Social Security and public benefits, health care access, family law and interpersonal violence prevention, and other issue areas to develop strategic advocacy projects along with a wraparound model of client service.

In Alameda County, the housing law portions of Homelessness Task Force work are supported in part by a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation.