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Poverty Law & Poverty Clinic hosts CLE and public launch

October 7, 2023

On Wednesday, October 4, 2023, the Poverty Law & Poverty Clinic (PLPC), a Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic, hosted the ‘Poverty Law and Policy Landscape in Nevada’ Continuing Legal Education (CLE) panel at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV in the Thomas and Mack Moot Court Facility.

Read more about the CLE and Public Launch:

Eric Neugeboren, UNLV launches poverty law clinic amid ‘overwhelming need’ for legal aid, The Nevada Independent, Oct. 6, 2023.

UNLV Launches Poverty Clinic, William S. Boyd School of Law, Oct. 25, 2023.

Clark County Creates Transition Housing for Unhoused Individuals

August 5, 2023

Clark County rehabilitated a motel to provide temporary housing to unhoused individuals. Read more about the Clark County Navigation Center:

Jarah Wright, Clark County Navigation Center now open, provides temporary housing for homeless, ABC 13 KNTV Las Vegas, Aug. 04, 2024.

Ricardo Torres-Cortez, ‘They’ve been wonderful’: Clark County converts another motel to house those experiencing homelessness, Las Vegas Review Journal, Aug. 4, 2023.

Assembly Bill 135 (2023)

June 17, 2023

Revises provisions relating to homelessness. (BDR 40-324)

AN ACT relating to homelessness; revising the process for persons who are homeless to apply for a certified or official copy of a birth certificate; revising certain information required to be included on an identification card issued to a pupil; requiring the Nevada Housing Crisis Response System to assist persons in crisis who are applying for a state identification card; revising requirements for the issuance of a state identification card to certain homeless children and youth; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Section 9 effective June 10, 2023. Sections 1 to 3, inclusive, 7, and 8 of this act effective on October 1, 2023. Sections 4, 5, and 6 of this act effective on January 1, 2026.

Primary Sponsor: Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

A longer description and the full text of the bill are available on the Nevada Legislature’s website here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Bill/9785/Overview.

Source: The information in this post is excerpted as quotes from the Nevada Legislature’s website.

Reno Kids Invent A Way to Reduce Food Insecurity

April 8, 2023

The Nevada Independent published an article on April 8, 2023 about kids in Reno who are trying to raise awareness of food insecurity by developing an app that will likely be released around the end of the summer. The app will “connect users with farmers and other food producers who have leftovers that they would normally compost.” It is wonderful to hear this kind of news story about people coming up with solutions that get at systemic issues and especially wonderful that we see this leadership in young people. Read more about it at The Nevada Independent.