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Primary geographic focus: California Statewide, Northern California, Southern California
Organization Type: Provider
Lists: IOLTA-Funded, IOLTA Support Centers
Tags: Benefits, Civil Rights, Health Care, Housing
Acronym or short name: PILP
Since 1996, PILP has provided crucial litigation and advocacy support to local legal services and public interest law programs throughout California. Responding to the elimination of federal funding for state and national legal services support centers, PILP was established to ensure that local legal services programs could continue to participate in major litigation and advocacy on behalf of low-income persons.
The primary purposes of PILP are to assist local legal services programs in rendering legal services to lower income persons who are financially unable to afford legal assistance, and to provide technical assistance, training, research and litigation support to public interest law programs and community based organizations on law and policy issues related to housing and community development, public benefits, health, education, welfare, and civil, consumer and economic rights.
PRESS/RESEARCH MENTIONING/INVOLVING THIS SOURCE
Press ReleaseLow Income Residents Compel Monterey County to Follow State Law
California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. (CRLA)September 27, 2017
CRLA and PILP's joint lawsuit in Monterey County leads to increase in aid for poor.
News Story
East Bay Ordered to Move Quicker on Food Stamps
March 16, 2016News Story
Alameda County sued over food stamp delays
Matthew ArtzContra Costa Times
October 1, 2015
Plaintiffs want Alameda County to ensure that they stop continuing to process applications late.
News Story
Supreme Court ruling a win for affordable housing, San Jose
Jennifer WadsworthSan Jose Inside
June 15, 2015
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News Story
Public Interest Attorneys Ready to File Lawsuit to Block Sale of City-Owned Land
Darwin BondGrahamEast Bay Express (Oakland)
June 2, 2015
As private stakeholders seek to move forward with controversial residential development project, civil legal aid organizations threaten lawsuit to force compliance with affordable housing regulations.
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