On Oct. 15, around 235 unhoused people and their pets gathered in the Inner City Law Center (ICLC) parking lot for the seventh biannual Skid Row Community Connect Day. In partnership with the Los Angeles Central Providers Collaborative, ICLC invited housing organizations, medical teams, legal advocates and mental health professionals to deliver services to unhoused and low- income Skid Row community members.
The event is part of ICLC’s mission to serve the city’s most vulnerable: extremely low-income families struggling to stay housed in LA. Thirty percent of its clients are homeless, and 48% of its clients last year had annual household incomes under $10,000. In the simplest terms: The nonprofit, poverty law firm helps people who are very precariously housed try to hold on to their housing, and people on the streets try to find a pathway into housing.
UCLA School of Law graduate Nancy Mintie started ICLC in 1980. After moving to the Catholic Worker Soup Kitchen, also known as Hippie Kitchen, in the Skid Row neighborhood, she began providing legal services to people in the area. Cases ranged from eviction and habitability issues to securing benefits. . . .
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