Advocacy & Impact Litigation

The impact litigation and policy advocacy efforts at Public Law Center aim to provide comprehensive legal representation and strategic advocacy to address systemic injustices. Through high-impact litigation and targeted policy initiatives, PLC strives to create lasting social change and advance the rights of underserved communities.

Housing

  • Expanding affordable housing
  • Fighting for tenants faced with substandard housing
  • Supporting equal access to housing for the disabled and homeless, including expanding affordable housing options and combatting discriminatory zoning

Healthcare

  • Supporting efforts to expand access to quality physical and mental healthcare
  • Supporting efforts aimed at increasing funding of healthcare programs
  • Supporting efforts to break down language barriers which impair the delivery of healthcare to low-income immigrants
  • Supporting efforts to improve services to persons living with HIV or AIDS

Consumer Fraud

  • Supporting local, regional, and statewide efforts that are directed at combating consumer fraud
  • Combating predatory lending and housing-related fraud, including foreclosure fraud and home improvement fraud

Access to the Courts

  • Supporting local and statewide efforts designed to ensure that statutes, court rules, court forms, court procedures, and other court related practices are designed and implemented to increase access to the courts by low-income persons or persons with limited English proficiency
  • Supporting local and statewide efforts designed to ensure that the courts are adequately funded and that innovative programs that provide benefit to low-income litigants are not eliminated or significantly curtailed

Family Law

  • Supporting local and statewide efforts to protect the private identifying information of vulnerable individuals

Immigration

  • Supporting regional and national efforts to ensure migrants are not abused in federal detention facilities
  • Combatting unlawful practices by local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers