CJP

Community Justice Project

Improving the Lives of Low Income Pennsylvanians

Harrisburg Office

118 Locust St.

Harrisburg, PA 17101

(717) 236-9486 (phone)

(717) 233-4088 (fax)

 

Pittsburgh Office

Suite 1705

429 Forbes Ave

Pittsburgh, PA 15219

(412) 434-6002 (phone)

(412) 434-5706 (fax)

 

Hispanic Outreach Offices

(Ayuda en Espaņol)

 

Pittsburgh

Suite 1705

429 Forbes Ave

Pittsburgh, PA 15219

(412) 434-6176 (office)

(412) 715-1750 (cell)

(412) 434-5706 (fax)

 

Reading

c/o Centro Hispano

501 Washington St.

Reading, PA 19603

(610) 685-1270 (phone)

(610) 372-2619 (fax)

 

Hazleton

100 West Broad Street

Room 118

Hazleton, PA 18201

(570) 582-5816 (phone)

(570) 459-5815 (fax)

Text Box: Community Justice Project was formed in 1997 as a spin-off from federally funded legal services programs in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. Since that time CJP has grown from three attorneys to a staff of eight attorneys, serving clients statewide, except Philadelphia. Three CJP paralegals do outreach work to the Hispanic communities in Reading, Hazleton, and western Pennsylvania (housed in Pittsburgh). Initially CJP attorneys focused on housing and public benefits litigation, such as Pollice v National Tax Funding, LP, 225 F3d 379 (3rd Cir.2000), which obtained the refund of more than 20 million dollars which had been collected in violation of the municipal lien law from real estate tax delinquent residents. As CJP staff grew, other litigation areas were developed in education and employment law. After the creation of the CJP Hispanic Outreach Project in 2003, the organization began to address the needs of recent immigrant communities. CJP participated in the landmark case of Lozano v. City of Hazleton, 496 F.Supp.2d 477 (2007).

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