End of Street Lawyer

Housing First is similar to 14th Street Legal Clinic because they are helping the homeless by opening around ten 4-story complexes which holds about 1,271 chronicle homeless individuals. Housing First is a nonprofit organization, because of them there is a 73% reduction of chronicle homelessness. Unfortunately chronically homeless only make up 20% of the homeless population all together. Like the 14th Street Legal Clinic, or rather like Mike, they are tied with many public good services that help the homeless adjust to the life they are in. At the same time they are very different because they are not dealing with legal matters, they are dealing with housing for the majority of  homeless that have only been on the street for a year or so while the Mike and the other lawyers of the 14th Street Legal Clinic deal with people that have been on the street for most of their lives like the Burton Family who have lived and died on the street. 

Cleveland Street Chronicles have changed a few lives of the homeless like the 14th Street Clinic. They were inspired by a man and a small group of homeless people that were trying to make money on the street without begging for it. Due to this paper more people have become aware of the homelessness issue. People became aware of Mr. Michael R. White, the mayor of , was trying to do. Mr. White ordered the police force to ticket those homeless, that were trying to earn money without begging, $50 for not having a city peddler's licence. Luckily the ACLU or American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit in favor the the homeless Their reasoning was: it went against their First Amendment right, but it was all in vain; due to the U.S. District Judge agreed with the city in the matter. As for the 14th Street Legal Clinic they dealt with a lot of people with these issues of trying to earn money without begging and also begging for money for whatever needs they have.  

Both of these organizations are similar to each other in helping the homeless earn their rights as citizens like the Street Legal Clinic. Together they have changed many peoples lives that once lived on the street or still do. They both have their own funding and they both saved people for going under anymore than they already have.  But the problem with both of these is they both have not dealt with the legal matters like eviction of their workers or people that live in their housing nor have they ever dealt with people having their children taken from them and trying to get them back. But like the Street Legal Clinic they have changed and possibly saved peoples lives, they have helped those people a whole lot more than most people would by building them housings or giving them jobs so they can have some sort of income and are able to save to get their own place in the world.

The Street Lawyer Part III

                  Mister and Mike are alike because they both want justice for the people they do not exactly have the options of luxury like their own place to sleep at night or the money to stay somewhere. Mister was looking for justice for the people in the shack housing in the warehouse. Mike is looking for justice for poor people in general and he also dealt with how they were being treated as "squatters". Mister was trying to understand why people were treating the homeless like they were being treated. 

                 Hector was moved to a different part of the law firm, Drake and Sweedneys, into Chicago because he knew way too much about what was in the River Oaks TAG file. He knew what the missing memo was about because he was the one to write it, but unfortunately for the firm, Hector had a copy of the memo because he knew Chance was going to take it out of the file so that the case would win if it was ever to come up. Now that Palma works in Chicago. I figure he is being paid more to keep his mouth shut that would be why he has not gone against Drake and Sweedney's law firm in anyway other than giving Mike the last missing memo of the file.

                Mike is doing well in the law firm he is in now. Instead of him working nonstop, like he was in Drake and Sweedneys, he is more relaxed and does not seem to have the urge to go to work like he did working at the other firm. Mike is still working hard but he is not working the long hours he was, he can leave whenever he wants without having to clock out or inform anyone where he is going, it is his own business.