Fair Housing for All

Liam Garland has worked in public service for more than a decade. Since 2003, he has served as the Director of Litigation for the Housing Rights Center, a fair housing organization based in Los Angeles, California. As an attorney for the Neighborhood Law Corps, he served low-income neighborhoods in Oakland, California. Prior to this, he taught elementary school as a Teach for America corps member in Compton, California, provided legal services in San Francisco jails, and wrote a how-to-guide on obtaining pro-community results from project labor agreements. In 2002, Scarecrow Education Press published his book, Navigating Treacherous Waters, which explored the state policy of taking over failing school districts. His work on housing discrimination has been published in various journals and magazines, including the Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, the Institute of Real Estate's Journal of Property Management, and National Apartment Association's UNITS. Liam earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall).