State Disaster Supplemental Grant
A well hidden secret, the state has a fact sheet on its supplemental payment for those affected by federally declared disasters:Â Lists the program description and scope; grants of up to $10,000 (though usually between $200-$2,000); not means tested or…
Google toolbar on steroids. Really.
It’s version 4.0, it’s in beta, which means it’s not quite all it promises to be, but it’s worthy news today for all who use Internet Explorer as their web browser: Google Releases Upgraded Toolbar. This latest version is especially…
Watching the clock
Watching the Clock Tick: Factors Associated with TANF Accumulation investigates the personal characteristics associated with using more months on TANF. Just to stoke more wood on the fire: those with more resources use TANF less than those with more persistent…
Gov Searches ‘R US
For most, Google remains the divining rod of choice for web searches, but what to do when you want to scour for only federal or other government stuff? Perhaps the answer is the newly spiffed up FirstGov Search page. (Look…
Legal services victory on FOIA fee waiver
A federal court in Pennsylvania has issued an important 16-page summary judgment order and decision (sorry about the poor copy quality!) requiring the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to grant Community Legal Services a fee waiver related…
OAL updates access to Cal regulations
To be honest, the prior implementation was no great shakes, but it is not necessarily a good thing that the Office of Administrative Law has somewhat updated its poorly implemented California Code of Regulations, with a new setup provided by…
Housing advocates and AG join forces against BIA suit
As reported in today’s Sacramento Bee, on January 12, the attorney general’s office joined in a motion filed by low-income residents and housing advocates to dispose of a lawsuit challenging Sacramento County’s affordable housing ordinance. The ordinance, adopted in December…
Submit Cal State Bar MCLE compliance card online
A friendly reminder to California lawyers out there in MCLE Group 2 (H-M) who may have not noticed: You can now submit your MCLE compliance card – due no later than February 1, 2006 – electronically. And we quote: “In…
Cases and Regs: We Are Family
LSNC has long offered three different locations with regularly updated postings and web feeds: The posting you’re reading at this moment, of course, is located at the LSNC home page, the LSNC Advocate Feed. We have now integrated our other…
Los Angeles County: “This is the capital of homelessness in America.”
In counterpoint to the article below about Placer County, the front page of the National section of the New York Times today reports on the problem of homelessness in Los Angeles County, which faces one of the worst housing affordability…
