Homeless Advocacy Project

These people employ the most unprofessional tactics and people. First off they take the cases of people who ARE NOT HOMELESS. Most of the time they are representing junkies and other addicts who are being evicted for being junkies and addicts, Their lawyers often resort to name calling and bulling tactics, and they are manipulating San Francisco law to look like they are doing something good.

I was lucky. On the day of my Settlement Conference at the California Superior Court at 400 McAllister Street in San Francisco, I showed up without a lawyer. The Justice and Diversity Project, through the California Superior Court, sent many volunteer lawyers to the Settlement Conference and Michael Spalding, Esq. of the Homeless Advocacy Project became my lawyer then and there.
He is a fit and young, clear-​speaking, articulate, and compassionate advocate from beginning to end. Only after he decided to be my lawyer did I feel out the slightly tedious paperwork the Homeless Advocacy Project requires in order to obtain its funding.
We never settled at the original Settlement Conference but the morning before my trial, we did, and out of the many scenarios, both horrific and ecstatic, Michael Spalding steered the negotiations to the sanest and common sensical outcome. He lifted the eviction threat from my life.
My landlord bullied and victimized me, suing me for eviction while alleging nothing but lies, and this even while she had no just cause. This eviction attempt was a malevolent misuse of a landlord’s constitutional right to evict. Michael Spalding, working for the Homeless Advocacy Project, ended the conflict and got me returned back to my apartment, safe and sound. I was lucky to have met Michael Spalding. I highly recommend him and the agency he represents.

I didn’t know I should take this place literally as they are really and truly advocating homelessness in the projects! What a joke…
This year I’ve battled several issues which led me to fall behind on my rent. Took time out of my day to seek legal advice with HAP (and dodged the human feces on the way there). Wasn’t expecting a miracle, just straightforward advice on the eviction process.
Was told to fill out their tedious and repetitive evaluation forms to save the precious time of the «lawyer» who eventually found enough breath in her lifeless body to tell me, within all of a few minutes, that I should anticipate losing in court and that I should make other arrangements for housing.
Well now, after receiving such golden wisdom I just couldn’t bear to trouble her with the details of my five year long tenancy and the evidence I stockpiled against my landlord for making me manage his slum for him.
People with common sense and/​or dignity: spare yourself the pointless misery…

Both Ted and Katie helped me a lot when I was going to lose my house. Thanks to them I did not become homeless and I could keep my house until I found a place to move in. They worked really hard so that I could have more time to find new housing. I really can’t tell where I would be now if I would not have had their help. I am absolutely grateful for the services they gave me when I needed it the most without expecting to get anything in return.