Page 5 - LANWT Annual Report 2018

Program Focus:
Community
Revitalization
Project
LAST MAY, CRP HELD A
press conference to
announce the filing
of a lawsuit on behalf
of two clients against
a mortgage company
alleging violations of
several federal laws
including the Truth in
Lending Act and the
Fair Housing Act. Since
the filing, another
client has joined
the lawsuit, which is
scheduled for trial in
2019.
ADVOCATING FOR A CLIENT GROUP
THAT opposed the placement of communities served by CRP. With
staff based in Amarillo, Dallas, Fort
concrete batching plants in their Worth, and Lubbock, CRP engages in
neighborhood based on health,
work that addresses poverty issues
safety, and environmental quality through advocacy, education, and
concerns. Filing a lawsuit alleging empowerment.
that home demolitions in one of Within each city, CRP paralegals
the last intact Freedmen’s Town in and attorneys work closely with
the country violated the federal Fair other legal aid organizations,
Housing Act. Working on behalf of community partners, and citizen
people with limited mobility or who groups to address systemic issues
are living with disabilities to obtain involving community development,
reasonable accommodations after affordable fair housing, and
their initial attempts were rebuffed. environmental justice. Team
These are only a few examples members also assisted numerous
of the cutting-edge community nonprofits with incorporation,
lawyering being done by Legal Aid’s
application for 501(c)(3) status, and
Community Revitalization Project advice on corporate governance to
(CRP) since its formation in early help establish strong foundations in
2017.
the communities served by Legal Aid.
In 2018, CRP completed 35 cases
on behalf of individual clients and
23 cases on behalf of group clients,
and was an active participant
in more than 300 outreach and
community education events in the