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- Affordable Housing
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‘We’re Your Neighbors’: Lives of unhoused people who have died commemorated on National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day
A colleague told me last year they have had more unhoused clients pass away than they had been able to help secure housing. The thought chills me, as I realize the same is true in my own career. In 2020, nearly 8,000 unhoused people died in cars, tents, shelters and in the streets across the…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
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Defending Unhoused People: SPLC fights back against discriminatory ordinances that punish individuals who do not have homes
I am a homeless lawyer. No, I have never personally experienced homelessness. But it is fitting that the first thing you know about me is that I am a lawyer who has spent nearly my entire legal career representing people who do not have a safe place to call home. It is, after all, the…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
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Overextended Stay: People living in long-term residential hotels fight evictions to avoid homelessness
The private security guard, armed with an assault rifle, moved swiftly through the dingy halls of the extended-stay, residential hotel outside of Atlanta on a crisp fall day. He banged on one door after another, pointing the rifle at longtime residents and forcing them to leave. The stunning evictions terrified people living at Efficiency Lodge…
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- Affordable Housing
- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
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Central Alabama Fair Housing Center, et al. v. Julie Magee, et al.
Alabama Mobile Home Case As part of a harsh anti-immigrant law, the Alabama Department of Revenue required people who owned or maintained mobile homes in the state to prove their lawful immigration status before they could pay annual fees for an identification decal required for all mobile homes under state law. The Southern Poverty Law…