2026 Symposium
Feb
20
9:30am - 4:00pm Georgetown University Law Center, Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor From the Ground Up: Self-Determination & Local Autonomy in the Fight Against Poverty

Join scholars, practitioners, advocates, and community leaders for panel discussions and engagement events on how law and organizing can advance dignity, autonomy, and collective power.

Featuring Corey Shaw Jr, Empower DC Historian, Director of the DC Legal Project, & Reparations Advocate, plus many more speakers and community members!

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Volume 33
Issue
I

Letter from the Editors

by Sarah Minion, Erika Anclade, Yaseen Hashmi, Shawn Ali, Julia Tecotzky, & Rebecca Wilson
Dear reader, As the first law journal in the nation to focus on poverty law and economic justice, the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy (GJPLP) seeks to demonstrate […]
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The Rise and Fall of Project 100%: The Troubled History of “Welfare Reform” in San Diego County and Lessons for Social Movement Lawyering Resource Mobilization

by Jonathan Markovitz
Under “Project 100%,” or “P100,” when County residents applied for financial assistance under CalWORKs (“California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids”), the County required them to submit to unannounced searches […]
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Parents, Kin, and the State: Family and Households Between Functional Parenthood and Child Protection

by Rama Hyeweon Kim
Family law scholars are reconsidering traditional parenthood laws, favoring functional definitions that recognize individuals’ relationships with children if they perform a parental function and nurture a parent-child bond. Advocates, primarily […]
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Building Affordability: The Promises, Challenges, and Feasibility of Social Housing Models

by Jack Ross-Pilkington
With nearly half of American households burdened by the cost of rent, housing affordability is an increasingly salient issue in the United States. Meanwhile, analysts have referred to current government […]
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Beyond Affordability: Combating Systemic Housing Barriers for Formerly Incarcerated People

by Julia M. Baumel
The ability to secure stable housing is critical to an individual’s success after incarceration. Yet, formerly incarcerated individuals face structural barriers that extend beyond the broader housing affordability crisis. One […]
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Unsafe, Unaffordable, and Unjust: Why D.C. Must Defend Tenants’ Right to a Safe Home

by Max Heckman, Emma Hollansworth, Britany Brown, & Victoria (Tori) Hancock
Imagine living in an apartment with floor-to-ceiling mold, mice scurrying about while you try to sleep, and a horde of cockroaches darting back and forth each time you turn on […]
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