The Project for the Future of Equal Justice provides a
forum for identifying and exploring areas of substantive poverty law that present new
issues or demand fundamentally different strategies than have been pursued in the past.
The
Importance of Issues at the Intersection of Housing and Welfare Reform for
Legal Services Work: This paper
addresses the increasingly interdependant
relationship between housing and welfare. Click
here to read.(available in pdf format)
Legal Services Working Group on Housing/Welfare
Intersection Issues: This 1999
effort has two goals: to develop and share effective strategies that can be used locally
by advocates to assist their clients on emerging issues at the intersection of housing and
welfare law, and to serve as a demonstration of how to develop new areas of collaborative
work in legal services programs. The Working Group will be composed of housing, welfare
and employment advocates who agree to contribute to the development of useful local
strategies on a number of "intersection" issues. It is not a training group. The
planned approach is a series of 6 - 8 telephone conference calls on pre-set topics during
1999 with subsequent "discussion board" interchange. To learn more about the
Housing/Welfare Working Group, find strategy papers posted so far and participate in the
discussion, click here. To join the
Housing/Welfare Working Group, contact Project consultant Barbara Sard.
Next on the agenda: Other emerging areas of poverty law that the Project is currently
considering for exploration include:
- issues relating to employment and labor market participation
of welfare recipients and other low-income workers
- increasing interconnections between welfare reform and
family law, housing and health, and welfare reform and disability
- how advocates can use fair housing and civil rights
strategies to protect minorities, people with disabilities, women, and families with
children
- participating in community-based planning to achieve an
integrated housing and transportation advocacy agenda.
Ideas about other areas of
substantive law calling for new approaches_ Contact Alan
Houseman at CLASP.
