SpeakerJason Hoge Employment & Housing Justice Attorney
Family Violence Appellate Project
This training will provide a crash course on the housing and employment rights of domestic violence survivors under state and federal law, including a discussion of the biases facing survivors and how to address them. The program will review legal options to keep survivors in stable public and private housing and to protect them from housing discrimination. The speaker will highlight workplace biases facing
survivors and will discuss legal options to help them maintain and obtain employment. Finally, the impact of mass criminalization on survivors’ ability to maintain stable housing, financial security, and good credit will be discussed, as will how to deal with an arrest or criminal record.
Topics• Identifying biases and protecting domestic violence survivors from housing and employment discrimination
• Protections for domestic violence survivors under state and federal housing and employment law
• Family Law & California Protective Orders
• Measures to protect the credit of domestic violence survivors
• Reentry issues