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LAE-FAVU Collaboration Wins 2021 n4a Award

In July of this year, the LAE-FAVU Collaboration received the 2021 Aging Achievement Award from the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a). This project is a collaboration between the Adult Protective Service’s Financial Abuse Virtual Unit (FAVU) and LAE to better meet the needs of older adults experiencing …

We Stand with the AAPI Community

The purpose of our work at Legal Assistance to the Elderly (LAE) is to support and protect San Francisco’s seniors. They make and have made our city all that it is, and we are brokenhearted and outraged at the violence targeting our Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) elders. Our AAPI elders are an …

Black Lives Matter

We are outraged by of the death of George Floyd and systematic abuse that has led to this national call to action. We are inspired by the voices in the streets. In our work we see the effects of state violence and the epidemic incarceration of black America, and how ...

COVID-19 Update

The San Francisco Department of Public Health has declared a Local Health Emergency regarding novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The current recommendations from the Department of Public Health call for vulnerable populations to avoid all gatherings of 10 people or more. Vulnerable populations include: people 60 years old and older ...

Larry’s Story

Our clients get amazing results. Larry Martin has lived in his rent-controlled Castro apartment for 38 years. Earlier this year, while recovering at home from cancer treatment and heart surgery, Larry fell asleep with a running sink that overflowed and required the landlord to clean up. His landlord immediately sued to evict him. If ...

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