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Posted on October 20, 2021
By: Jessica Kutz , High Country News Excerpt: One such organization is the Sustainable Economies Law Center, based in Oakland, California. The nonprofit has been around for more than a decade, providing legal tools to worker and housing cooperatives in the region, among other initiatives. Read full article here. (Originally...
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Posted on October 20, 2021
by Natalie Orenstein, The Oaklandside
Our inspiring friends at Homefulness/POOR Magazine have encountered every legal barrier imaginable as they work to build housing for Oakland's unhoused community. The Law Center has partnered with them to address the latest
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(Originally published October 20, 2021.)
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Posted on August 27, 2021
By: OSCAR PERRY ABELLO, Next City Excerpt: “We’re trying to hold our ground by not defining the entire process up front or acting like it’s our job to do that,” says Janelle Orsi, staff attorney and co-founder at the Sustainable Economies Law Center, which helped convene the collective starting in...
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Posted on August 27, 2021
By: Mwende Hinojosa and Jocelyn Foreman, Nonprofit Quarterly Excerpt: My mother had just died, and I was being retraumatized by seeing the foreclosure notices. Christine [Hernandez of Sustainable Economies Law Center] was telling me I had more options than cash for keys. But then I realized I had to tell people my situation and...
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Posted on July 27, 2021
What are some of the invisible forces activating the hearts and minds of staff and interns of Sustainable Economies Law Center? Recently, several staff found simultaneous resonance around the word interdependence, and we planned a month of events to deepen our understanding of interdependence. Below, a few of us share...
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