“Tenants are facing eviction even as their landlords are given these giant checks and tenants who are eligible for assistance are being denied with these cryptic notices that don’t tell them why. It just doesn’t make sense,” said Madeline Howard, a senior staff attorney at Western Center on Law & Poverty, one of the groups suing the state over the program.”
California’s eviction moratorium expires at midnight on June 30
“As of tomorrow, even if the tenant is waiting to get rental assistance for the months of rent that are demanded in an eviction case, the landlord can go ahead and evict them,” said Madeline Howard, senior attorney at Western Center on Law and Poverty.”
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California’s eviction moratorium to lift at midnight, despite rent relief concerns
“Madeline Howard, senior attorney for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, said thousands of vulnerable Californians could lose their housing as of Friday. Howard is one of the attorneys in two lawsuits that a coalition of tenant advocacy groups brought against the Department of Housing and Community Development after it closed the application portal.”
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Starting Friday, Thousands of California Tenants Still Waiting on Rent Relief Can Be Evicted
“Lorraine López, senior attorney with the Western Center on Law and Poverty, recommends that you also look up community organizations and nonprofit legal services that assist tenants, and access their information sheets, workshops and clinics to educate you about your rights in the event your landlord issues you with a legal notice.”
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Auditor slams state developmental services agency
“The Western Center on Law & Poverty in November filed a lawsuit against the Harbor Regional Center in Los Angeles on behalf of a group of Latino parents, alleging racial discrimination and arguing the center failed to meet children’s needs during the pandemic when schools and day programs shut down.”
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1 in 3 applications denied California rent relief money, thousands still waiting
“People who are eligible for rental assistance are being harmed by these denials,” said Attorney Madeline Howard with Western Center on Law and Poverty who’s leading the lawsuit. “I think there’s some lack of understanding of how quickly evictions move and how many people are facing eviction because they’re not getting the rental assistance in time.”
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Colombia’s election; California’s new budget; And, the Supreme Court on abortion access and gun rights
“0:42 – We continue on the California budget, this time exploring what’s not included in the budget, with Michael Herald, director of policy advocacy at the Western Center on Law and Poverty.”
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OP-ED: Investment in housing is the bottom-line answer to homelessness
In this op-ed by Mike Herald, Western Center’s Director of Policy Advocacy, Mike explains why the Newsom administration and California Legislature must allocate steady rather than temporary funding for rental assistance and the creation of permanent, supportive housing.
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Louisiana Governor Signs CROWN Act Into Law
“The CROWN movement began in 2019 in collaboration with Dove, National Urban League, Color Of Change and Western Center on Law & Poverty.”
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A third of Californians live in or near poverty. Advocates say the budget must do more
“Mike Herald, director of policy advocacy for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, said CalWORKs was originally based in the belief that if the government didn’t force people to work, they wouldn’t know “what was good for them.” The program has been reformed over the years, Herald said, but tens of thousands of families are still sanctioned from the system due to the work requirement.”
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