Across the state, Legal Services supplied nearly $43.6 million to 11 different legal aid organizations last year. Funding from the federal agency helped resolve 81,966 cases in California in 2015, the most recent year for which the organization has released case data. Legal Services reports that 47 percent of those cases were housing-related, according to San Francisco Chronicle.
Julia's OneJustice organization has been working for more than thirty years to provide legal help for Californians in need. OneJustice is a statewide network of 100+ nonprofit legal organizations, law firms, law schools and businesses that together provide life-changing legal assistance to over 270,000 low-income Californians each year.
She said lots of Californians face pressing legal problems. About 12 million cannot afford an attorney and are eligible for free legal help. "This is the normal context of our work - before Trump Administration but this administration has intensified the immigration situation in the country that means we have to respond."
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