BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES CORP A
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Mission Statement
Brooklyn Legal Services Corp. A’s mission is to advance social and economic justice and community empowerment through innovative, collaborative, neighborhood-based legal representation and advocacy. We assist individuals, families, not-for-profit community-based organizations (CBOs), community development corporations (CDCs), and coalitions in sustaining and developing vibrant, healthy communities.
About This Cause
We address the systemic problems facing our communities by providing a combination of full legal representation, brief advice/services, and legal education to vulnerable populations including low-income working poor, unemployed, disabled, elderly, immigrants, families in crisis and the community-based organizations (CBOs) that serve them. Brooklyn A has three core programs. (1) Preserving Affordable Housing Program: to preserve tenancies and increase affordable housing for low-income clients; (2) Consumer and Economic Advocacy Program: to provide legal assistance, including advice, advocacy and litigation services, to homeowners facing foreclosure and/or victimized by predatory lending practices; and (3) Community and Economic Development (CED) Program: to provide general counsel and transactional legal services to community based organizations (CBOs) and community development corporations (CDCs). We partner with and provide legal services to dozens of effective CBOs each year that have a demonstrated commitment to our common goal of social and economic justice. These partnerships have expanded health and dental care services, produced new and rehabilitated affordable housing, provided more childcare, developed community centers, and created minority and community-owned businesses and jobs. For many of our community partners, the financial cost of legal services for the economic development in which they engage is prohibitive and would be unavailable to them if not for the free legal assistance of Brooklyn A.