SF Legal Aid Providers Make the Case for Our Impact

This article by Sylvie Sturm in yesterday’s San Francisco Public Press spotlights what the availability of free civil legal aid means for the stability of low-income San Franciscans and as an effective homelessness prevention strategy. Legal aid organizations in San Francisco face steep decreases in service capacity for the City’s most vulnerable residents in a budget proposal by the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development that would eliminate the entire general civil legal aid category. Interviews with legal aid attorneys including BayLegal’s San Francisco Office Managing Attorney, Raegan Joern, bring the impact of these services on economic stability into sharp focus—along with the likely devastating impact of the proposed cuts.