Legal Assistance to the Elderly

Providing compassionate counsel and free legal services for senior and disabled San Francisco residents since 1979.

[Legal Assistance to the Elderly @lae_sf]

SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS: There is a moratorium on evictions for non-payment due to financial impacts caused by COVID-19. But you MUST notify your landlord and provide some explanation or documentation of your situation. Here's a template you can use: https://t.co/rzMxtlPS1b

[Legal Assistance to the Elderly @lae_sf]

@Caroline_Hart_ Thanks for covering this issue, Caroline!

[Legal Assistance to the Elderly @lae_sf]

'They’re close to 80, and they're first generation Japanese-American,' Mari, who was born in Japan and moved to the U.S. at age 10, said. 'Only kind of job they had was doing housekeeping, a couple of times a week for family, they work until they were 80 years old.'"

[Legal Assistance to the Elderly @lae_sf]

Benefits have not kept pace with the cost of living... said Laura Chiera of Legal Assistance to the Elderly. What results is a mass of seniors living paycheck to paycheck... unable to foresee any future where they’re not working to survive. https://t.co/0oVOFyuWck

[Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, Inc. @housingrightsSF]

ORGANIZING WORKS! WE COLLECTIVELY STOPPED THE EVICTION! Shawana & family will stay housed & responded, "Thank y'all so much! Thank god for all of you!" After a flood of calls & letters from tenants & neighbors, @TNDC has called off the sheriff.
Keep organizing to #EndALLEvictions

[Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, Inc. @housingrightsSF]

New Call-In Target: Don Falk, TNDC CEO!
STOP @TNDC'S EVICTION of Shawana Holmes & children, which would result in homelessness.

Call now to demand they:
1) They DROP THE EVICTION
2) Move the family to the unit that best meets their needs as she has already requested.

[Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, Inc. @housingrightsSF]

EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION! STOP @TNDC'S EVICTION of Shawana Holmes & children, which would result in homelessness. Demand they:
1) They DROP THE EVICTION
2) Move the family to the unit that best meets their needs as she has already requested.

#EndEvictions! #HousingIsAHumanRight!

[Asian Law Caucus @AsianLawCaucus]

🌸Read our spring Senior Rights Bulletin!🌸
@APILegal @LaRaza_Legal @lae_sf

We highlight critical info for SF seniors, like how to avoid COVID-19 vaccine scams, address landlord harassment, and more. Available in English + Chinese + Spanish.

https://t.co/Xa9McxDpLH

[Legal Assistance to the Elderly @lae_sf]

Flyer in Russian!

[Legal Assistance to the Elderly @lae_sf]

Kaiser USF Koret Center is offering COVID-19 vaccine appointments for people 65+ and people with disabilities. Call 628-652-2700 to make an appointment. Multiple languages available.

[Legal Assistance to the Elderly @lae_sf]

Community Living Campaign @CLCtweets is offering Lyft vouchers and free taxi rides to seniors and people with disabilities for transport to vaccine appointments! (Muni and SF Paratransit are already free for all vaccine trips.)

[Asian Law Caucus @AsianLawCaucus]

We are heartbroken at the murder of our Asian sisters and brothers in Georgia. With our history of the Chinese Exclusion Act & incarceration of Japanese Americans, we know that anti-Asian hate is nothing new to our nation.

[Legal Assistance to the Elderly @lae_sf]

LAE attorney Hannah Kim will present the pros and cons of SB 91, a CA Bill on COVID-19 relief to inform tenants of their rights and protections. Interpretation in Filipino is provided.

[Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, Inc. @housingrightsSF]

3/9, 6-8PM - Tenants rights webinar w/ SOMCAN & @lae_sf about SB 91, CA's law to prevent evictions until June 30th & also provide some tenants with debt relief. However, it is full of loopholes & we are demanding the gov truly #ProtectTenants.

Register: https://t.co/VKgETX5fTD

[Asian Law Caucus @AsianLawCaucus]

📣Are you a San Francisco tenant who can't pay rent because of COVID-19? Learn more about how you can be protected under #SB91, and what you need to do!

WATCH: resource videos from @lae_sf: https://t.co/XPk2m148rr

Also available in Ch/Sp languages: https://t.co/BtaS53lEUk

[Legal Assistance to the Elderly @lae_sf]

The deadline to fill out @aaaj_alc's COVID-19 survey has been extended to next Friday, December 11th! Participants will be entered into a sweepstakes to win a $100 Visa Gift Card. See flyers for details. Please take a moment and let your voice be heard at https://t.co/16OgkkC9Oc

[Legal Assistance to the Elderly @lae_sf]

Want to make a will, power of attorney, or advanced healthcare directive, but have no idea where to start? No problem: join us via Zoom for an End of Life Planning information session, where we'll be going over each of these documents. Sign up here: https://t.co/VMsOIACc9E

[L.A. Tenants Union @LATenantsUnion]

PSA: You don’t need a ballot measure to organize your building. You don’t need a ballot measure to organize a rent strike. Join your local tenants union, California. We can roll-back and control rents one collective bargaining negotiation at a time.

[Eviction Defense Collaborative of San Francisco @evictiondefense]

Fair Housing Act was supposed to reverse housing segregation and inequality. Instead, things have gotten worse for Black Americans. @KeeangaYamahtta explains via @MotherJones interview.

#HousingJustice #RacialJustice #BlackLivesMatter #RaceForProfit

https://t.co/BQnC8rPfPP

[Matthew Desmond @just_shelter]

For @NYTmag, I spent 1.5 years reporting alongside renters who found a way to do the impossible: buy back their apartments from their landlord.

This story truly changed me, convicted me. It's a story about what is possible and how to change the world.

https://t.co/g60ZDWSqUX