ALRP provides free and low-cost legal services to Bay Area residents living with HIV/AIDS. Services include housing, employment, immigration, insurance, confidentiality matters, credit, government benefits or public accommodations, wills, power of attorney and guardianship contracts.

ALC provides counseling, advocacy, and legal services in different areas, including housing, immigration, and worker’s rights.

BayLegal works to address the causes and consequences of poverty through high quality legal assistance and advocacy.

Eviction Defense Collaborative fights for tenants’ rights and is a lifeline for people faced with losing their homes.

The Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) provides legal and supporting social services to individuals and families who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness. HAP specializes in federal disability benefit advocacy, eviction defense, and immigration documentation, but may provide brief advice or referrals in other areas. HAP prioritizes individuals who have mental health disabilities and families.

Jubilee immigration lawyers provide affordable legal representation on a wide range of matters, including relief for victims of abuse and violence, deportation defense, family-based immigration, and citizenship.

The Justice & Diversity Center provides free legal help and related social services to low-income and homeless San Francisco residents in the areas of tenant advocacy, family law, consumer advocacy, and tax law. JDC also conducts a monthly drop-in legal clinic (Legal Advice and Referral Clinic) where low-income San Francisco residents can discuss their legal issues with a volunteer attorney.

La Raza Centro Legal is a community-based legal organization dedicated to empowering Latino, immigrant and low-income communities of San Francisco to advocate for their civil and human rights.

Legal Aid at Work is a nonprofit legal services organization that has assisted low-income, working families for more than 100 years. They use four main strategies to enforce and strengthen workers’ rights: free clinics and helplines, free legal issues, litigation, and policy advocacy.

CANHR’s long-term care advocates assist consumers with long-term care options; pre-placement counseling; guidance with Medi–Cal eligibility and estate recovery; resident rights complaints; elder financial abuse problems; and community education on various long-term care issues, including alternatives.

A professional organization providing referrals to private attorneys. This is not a free service, but a nominal referral fee gets the client a 30-minute consultation on a variety of legal issues.

Self-help services for family law matters and certain civil cases are available for self-represented Court customers who seek legal information and resources. ACCESS can assist you in completing judicial council forms and filing court paperwork correctly. ACCESS does not provide legal advice.

The library staff provides reference assistance to all patrons for their legal research needs.  The library collections and in-house databases are open to all.  Public access computers are available up to two hours per day for free use of Westlaw, Lexis, Fastcase, CEB OnLaw, HeinOnline and other databases at the library for legal research.

The California Department of Aging contracts with and provides leadership and direction to 33 Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) that coordinate a wide array of services to seniors and adults with disabilities at the community level and serve as the focal point for local aging concerns.

The Central City S.R.O. Collaborative was established in 2001 to organize tenants of Single-Room Occupancy (S.RO.) in San Francisco’s Central City neighborhoods, including the Tenderloin and South of Market (SoMA) community. Encouraging and facilitating community organizing in Central City S.R.O. hotels, improving tenants’ access to pertinent tenant’s rights information, and access to city and state building and health code laws.

HRC offers free call-in and drop-in counseling for San Francisco tenants in all types of housing: rent-controlled units, SROs, public housing and Section 8. HRC also helps organize entire buildings to fight against displacement and evictions. Volunteer counselors are trained to help tenants identify their options for problems with evictions, illegal rent increases, repair problems, security deposit returns, and more.

Founded in 1976, Community Boards is the oldest nonprofit conflict resolution center in the US. Services include mediation, conflict coaching, facilitation, and training.  Neighborhood mediations are provided citywide in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

Mediators with diverse backgrounds in landlord-tenant law, psychology, addiction, mental health and housing conflict resolve disputes in affordable housing that can lead to eviction or homelessness.

APS accepts and responds to reports of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and self-neglect involving older adults and adults with disabilities.

Eldercare Locator, a public service of the Administration for Community Living, connects those in need to services for older adults and their families. 

File a habitability complaint, report a code violation, and review building permits.

Protecting and promoting the health of all San Franciscans.

APILO provides legal, social, and educational services targeted at the Asian Pacific Islander community and other marginalized communities. Program areas include housing, immigration, and domestic violence.

BayLegal works to address the causes and consequences of poverty through high quality legal assistance and advocacy.

The mission of Legal Services of Northern California is to provide quality legal services to empower the poor to identify and defeat the causes and effects of poverty within our community, efficiently utilizing all available resources.