Bay Area Legal Aid’s Tenant Rights Initiatives in Alameda County, part four

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Fighting Back Against Landlord Harassment Sometimes, conflict between landlords and tenants can escalate into harassing or threatening behavior. Some landlords might resort to harassment to force out tenants when a lawful reason for eviction does not exist, or as a way to escalate pressure on a tenant already facing eviction. Harassment often involves various forms …

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Bay Area Legal Aid’s Tenant Rights Initiatives in Alameda County, part three

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Preserving Housing for Tenants with Disabilities Access to legal counsel can make a huge difference in outcomes for low-income tenants facing eviction. Representation can be the deciding factor in successfully challenging an improper or unlawful eviction proceeding. Even in cases where a landlord has the legal basis to pursue a tenant’s removal, free legal services …

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Bay Area Legal Aid’s Tenant Rights Initiatives in Alameda County, part two

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Defending the Right to Liveable Housing BayLegal’s housing attorneys and advocates fight for our clients’ rights to housing free from discrimination, protection from unlawful evictions, and maintenance of housing vouchers and subsidies to which they are entitled. Maintaining housing can also mean defending a tenant’s right to live in safe, healthy conditions that meet legal …

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Bay Area Legal Aid’s Tenant Rights Initiatives in Alameda County

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Categories: Client Story, eNewsletter Story, Homepage, News
Supporting a Tenant’s Sobriety BayLegal frequently advocates for tenants in Alameda County seeking reasonable accommodations from landlords and property managers. Our advocacy helps low-income renters access services and changes to their housing that support their health, provide accessibility for a disability, or support their safety as a survivor of violence. In one recent case, our …

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Celebrating a Partnership for Justice

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Categories: Attorneys, Client Story, eNewsletter Story, Homepage, Litigation, News
Often the issues that clients bring to Bay Area Legal Aid involve basic human rights: freedom from coercion, safety from violence, health, and shelter. Few issues are more fundamental than the right to live safely in stable housing. However, addressing the legal dimensions of this right often involves multiple, complex systems and areas of law. Defending our …

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BayLegal helps San Francisco client fight back against housing discrimination

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Categories: Attorneys, Client Story, eNewsletter Story, Homepage, News
A story in the Bay Area Reporter details the experience of Lisa Willis, a trans woman who faced racial and sexual discrimination in a nonprofit housing development. Ms. Willis, a San Francisco resident and musician, came to BayLegal for legal representation, and successfully reached a settlement with the housing provider. Ms. Willis was a resident …

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BayLegal Launches Our 2022 Annual Report

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Categories: Advocacy, Announcements, Attorneys, Client Story, eNewsletter Story, Homepage, News, Publication
Dear BayLegal friends, Working Together for Justice is much more than a tag line—it is about the expertise, resources and partnerships that are needed to address the deep socioeconomic and civil legal inequities in our country. Legal Services Corporation (LSC) issued an updated Justice Gap Report in 2022, which like the California State Bar Justice …

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The Bay Area’s Toll Debt Explosion

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A story in yesterday’s East Bay Times and other Bay Area News Group publications by Eliyahu Kamisher features BayLegal attorney Rachel Hoerger and her client Brenda Angulo. Ms. Angulo is one of a growing number of lower-income drivers in the Bay Area affected by the growing web of automated express lane and bridge toll payment …

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Highlighting the Impacts of Inequitable Parking Enforcement

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Categories: Advocacy, Attorneys, Client Story, Homepage, News
Car being towed
This March 6th story by Eliyahu Kamisher in the Mercury News digs into the data on parking enforcement practices in the Bay Area’s largest cities. The picture that emerges is one of significant  disparities in the number and likelihood of citations from city to city, with citation and enforcement often inseparable from municipal revenue considerations …

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Relieving Traffic Debt, Removing Barriers to Housing and Stability

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Congratulations to BayLegal Senior Staff Attorney Andrea Crider and her client, who just secured $48,000 in traffic debt relief through BayLegal’s representation in Contra Costa County Homeless Court. Andrea reports that over the course of extensive advocacy in homeless court and traffic court, this is the largest amount of debt she has seen relieved for …

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BayLegal Attorney Asma Husain Successfully Advocates for Client’s Housing Accommodations

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Categories: Client Story, eNewsletter Story, Homepage, News, Other
cut-out of a house on a green lawn
In addition to the work that BayLegal’s fair housing practice has done throughout the pandemic on eviction and eviction prevention, our practice also works on issues related to disability discrimination and accommodation, racial discrimination, and other forms of discrimination. These issues remain a pressing concern and seem to have accelerated during the pandemic as pressures …

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