Bay Area Legal Aid

Housing and homelessness prevention: in 2024, bay area legal aid (baylegal) helped 9,719 low-income san francisco bay area individuals, including seniors, families with children, and people with disabilities, avoid homelessness and preserve housing. Baylegal's advocacy to enforce housing laws and regulations also helped preserve and expand affordable housing for low-income individuals throughout the bay area. Baylegal counseled and represented clients who faced illegal evictions, including eviction after foreclosure, discrimination, substandard housing, and other housing rights violations. Through this work, baylegal secured over $15.4 million in quantifiable benefits to help low-income bay area residents secure their basic need for safe, affordable, and habitable housing.

Domestic violence prevention: in 2024, baylegal provided integrated and holistic legal services to help 4,637 low-income san francisco bay area survivors of inter-personal violence and their children escape abuse and build new independent and safe futures. Baylegal provided legal assistance with restraining orders, child custody and visitation orders, divorces, child and spousal support, and other family law protections and supports. Baylegal also assisted immigrant survivors of physical and mental abuse, as well their children, in filing for immigration relief under the violence against women act (vawa) and the victims of trafficking and violence protection act.through this work, baylegal secured over $11.1 million in quantifiable benefits in domestic violence, family law, and immigration matters, to help inter-personal violence survivors achieve lasting safety and improve their self-sufficiency.

Baylegal also provides targeted services for vulnerable populations including foster and transition age youth, commercially sexually exploited children, youth with disabilities, mental health issues, and/or involvement in the dependency or delinquency systems, as well as veterans and people who were formerly incarcerated.