The Legal Defense Clinics (LDC) Project aims to strengthen and support the growing movement to decriminalize homelessness by reimagining the relationship of legal work to organizing.
The LDCs are a national network of movement-driven legal clinics dedicated to dismantling the carceral complex of laws and policies that target unhoused communities. This network aims not only to increase front-line legal representation but to fully integrate that legal support into organizing spaces working to build the power of poor and unhoused communities to fight for their own liberation and forge better futures.
Through this form and process, the LDCs facilitate a new depth of relationship between lawyers and organizers in the field, one which harnesses the full range of tools at its disposal, collaborates across time and space, flexes as the movement requires, and sharpens the focus of legal work to address long-term needs of poor and unhoused communities.
