By: Hannah Wischnia, Engagement Coordinator, Open Door Legal
If you’ve never needed legal help, or never had a problem getting quality legal aid, it’s impossible to understand just how critical it is — and how devastating it is when you don’t have it.
That’s what makes our work at Open Door Legal so life-changing for the families in the San Francisco Bay Area we’ve helped by making legal aid both affordable and attainable. It’s also what drives our long-term mission of creating and scaling the first-ever national model for universal access to legal services.
Having adequate legal support, regardless of income level, is crucial to protecting rights around basic human needs like housing, public benefits, domestic violence, and immigration. And when you factor in that legal aid is a top indicator of homelessness across the United States, the stakes really couldn’t be much higher.
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