Los Angeles Center for Community Law and Action

Legal services: over the fiscal year 1/1/22 - 12/31/22, the Los Angeles Center for Community Law and Action ("laccla") was focused primarily on representation of low-income clients in cases related to fair housing, tenants' rights and eviction defense. Laccla represented dozens families and individuals in housing-related proceedings, including cases related to fair housing, retaliatory eviction, and breach of the warranty of habitability. Laccla also tried cases in support of individual tenants and tenant associations and unions throughout southern California. Laccla's goal is to leverage legal services to preserve and promote safe and affordable housing, especially for very low-income people, in and around Los Angeles county.

Programming: laccla's primary work involves the provision of legal services and issue-area or case-specific organizing. Beyond these two areas of focus, its flagship programs are member committees and weekly women's-group meeting. Each group has approximately 10 core members. The groups are vital to laccla's vision in that it provides clients and other who consistently participate in laccla's saturday meetings with a means to accomplish organizing goals, such as supporting their fellow members with direct actions, or campaigns to resist evictions or other forced displacement of Community members.

Organizing: the Los Angeles Center for Community Law and Action ("laccla") engages in Community canvassing and hosts weekly Community meetings and legal clinics to grow its base and organize around particular issues and campaigns. Laccla's weekly Community meetings were held wednesday at 6:30pm and provide an opportunity for groups of approximately 20 weekly attendees to consider issues, and particularly housing issues, impacting Los Angeles county and to devise coherent strategies to resolve problems that affect their Community. Laccla's weekly meetings end with a legal clinic. Laccla's attorneys perform intake for new prospective clients who are attending a laccla meeting for the first time, and follow up with clients who have' meetings and legal clinics were hosted during the last fiscal year.