By Jeremy Hay : presdomocrat – excerpt

“I just got burned out on that kind of law and when I got this job, I knew right away that this is where I was always supposed to be,” Legal Aid of Sonoma County’s Justin Milligan said.

On a recent Thursday morning in Petaluma’s Walnut Park, attorney Justin Milligan opened his laptop on top of a Recology garbage bin in front of his audience — the city’s Downtown Streets team, a work program for people experiencing homelessness. As a desk, it would have to do.

The team — a dozen men and women, most in Downtown Streets T-shirts, who spend mornings tidying up Petaluma’s streets — sat back and waited for him to start…

“My role,” he said, “is to remove legal obstacles to housing.”…(more)