Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles Announces Groundbreaking Event for New Headquarters
LOS ANGELES, January 12, 2016 — Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles will celebrate the groundbreaking of its new headquarters on January 19 at 10:00 a.m., at 1550 W. 8th St., Los Angeles, the day after we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Continuing the anti-poverty work that Dr. King was doing at the time […]
LA Taxpayers Sue City Over Enforcement of Illegal Beach Closure
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9, 2015 — This morning, two Los Angeles taxpayers filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles for unlawfully closing the beach, using a law that was never properly enacted. The ordinance, which makes it a crime for anyone to access the city’s 11 miles of coastline from midnight to 5:00 […]
Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Low-Income Tenants of Skid Row-Area Hotel
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30, 2015 — To stop ongoing harassment by management and address long-standing habitability issues, 16 low-income residents of the Madison Hotel in downtown L.A., many of them elderly, disabled, and military veterans, and Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN), a tenant-organizing group, have filed suit against the hotel’s owners and management. […]
County Program for Poorest of Poor Discriminates Against Mentally and Developmentally Disabled
LOS ANGELES (Nov. 18, 2015) — Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Social Services fails to accommodate the most vulnerable — mentally or developmentally disabled homeless people applying for subsistence benefits under General Relief. Not only are those who need help the most not receiving it, the bureaucratic system and complicated application process also violate […]
Compton Mayor and City Council Honor LAFLA for Leading the Way in Expungements, Prop 47 Petitions
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5, 2015 — Compton Mayor Aja Brown, along with the city council, will honor Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles for its work providing Prop 47 relief and record expungements at its regular meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Accepting the honor will be LAFLA managing attorney Yolanda Arias, who heads LAFLA’s work […]
Skid Row Tenants Call for an End to Harassment, Poor Conditions And Other Illegal Business Practices at the Madison Hotel
When: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. Where: The Madison Hotel, 423 E. 7th Street, Downtown LA Who: Residents of the Madison Hotel, and advocates and attorneys from Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN), Inner City Law Center, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles What: Press Conference and action regarding multiple and ongoing […]