Too often, a criminal record merits an automatic exclusion from many places, jobs, housing, and even volunteering. The rationale is that it will make society safer to exclude "criminals." More…
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City of Bridges Community Land Trust to build and preserve homes using New Market Tax Credits.
RHLS served as counsel to the City of Bridges Community Land Trust, a nonprofit community land trust focused on creating and preserving permanently affordable housing in the Pittsburgh region, in…
RHLS Senior Counsel Judy Berkman writes on the Property Conservatorship Act.
This article discusses the application of the Abandoned and Blighted Property Conservatorship Act to address the problem of derelict property throughout Pennsylvania. Enacted in 2008 and amended in 2014 and…
Community Ventures breaks ground at Old First.
Community Ventures, Old First Reformed Church, DePaul USA, and Philadelphia city agencies and elected officials gathered at Old First to celebrate the ceremonial groundbreaking of the planned supportive housing complex…
Policy initiative success means home repairs for asthma sufferers in Schuylkill County.
In 2017, with Community Redevelopment Legal Assistance (CRLA) funding from the PA Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) Board, RHLS began working with community partners in northern Schuylkill County to…