Each project below started with a pattern we saw across our cases — a system that was breaking people instead of helping them. We built a working alternative, then organized to make it the default.
Holistic, concierge-style legal services for shelter residents who are suffering from poverty.
Learn more →A program that allows homeless folks to "pay off" their tickets with efforts to improve their lives.
Learn more →Three cases, one unconstitutional statute, and courts that keep dodging the merits.
Learn more →An investigation of inequitable housing law enforcement and creation of a due process scorecard.
Learn more →A sentencing model that helps people exit poverty and leave the criminal justice system for good.
Learn more →Our ad hoc efforts to addresses the bureaucratic and legal barriers for the poor.
View project record →ArchivedHelping homeowners appeal the systematic over-assessment of their property taxes.
View project record →ArchivedOur efforts to make Michigan's school discipline process restorative and procedurally just.
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