Every project below started as a pattern we saw across our cases — a system that was breaking people instead of helping them. Every action is a piece of that work: a brief filed, a rule changed, a coalition built.
Our core projects — the standing infrastructure we've built to serve people the system was never designed for.
Holistic, concierge-style legal services for shelter residents who are suffering from poverty.
Learn more →A program that allows homeless folks to "pay off" their tickets with efforts to improve their lives.
Learn more →Three cases, one unconstitutional statute, and courts that keep dodging the merits.
Learn more →An investigation of inequitable housing law enforcement and creation of a due process scorecard.
Learn more →A sample of the individual actions — filings, rule changes, coalitions, and wins — that make up the day-to-day of our projects.
Pending before the Michigan Supreme Court as of 2026.
A county FOC office corrected a clerk's mistaken policy after we escalated it.
Courts statewide used our worksheets to diagnose and fix their own broken processes.
New provider partnerships, better internal systems, and court referrals drove the program's biggest year yet.
A proposed rule change would end fee reimbursement for interpreters in criminal cases — we argued it should cover every case, because equal access to courts is the court's job, not the litigant's.