Kumpoto chakum'mawa kwa Ohio akukumana ndi nthawi yodabwitsa yakukula ndi kutsitsimutsidwa. Panthawi imodzimodziyo oposa gawo limodzi mwa magawo atatu a anthu okhala ku Cleveland amakhala mu umphawi. Ngakhale kuti "vuto" lakulandidwa likunenedwa kuti latha, kulandidwa ndi mitengo yopanda kanthu kumakhalabe kokwera. Kupeza nyumba zotsika mtengo, zathanzi ndizochepa, mwayi wopeza ngongole ndi wochepa, ndipo anthu omwe amapeza ndalama zochepa amakumana ndi zopinga zambiri pantchito.
Cholinga cha Legal Aid's Neighborhood Legal Practice ndikuwonetsetsa kuti kubwezeretsedwanso kwa Cleveland sikusiya anthu opeza ndalama zochepa komanso mabanja. Legal Aid imagwiritsa ntchito njira zamaloya ammudzi ndipo imagwira ntchito mogwirizana ndi mabungwe ena kuti asinthe madera ndikukhala ndi zotsatira zokhalitsa.
Ntchito za Neighbourhood Legal Practice zikuphatikizapo kupanga mgwirizano, kuthandizana ndi zamalamulo, maphunziro a anthu ammudzi ndi kufalitsa uthenga, ndi kulimbikitsa anthu pazochitika zadongosolo. Zolinga za Pulojekitiyi ndi kuonetsetsa kuti anthu omwe ali ndi ndalama zochepa amakhala m'madera olimba, othandizira, okhala ndi nyumba zotetezeka, zokhazikika, ali ndi mwayi wopeza ngongole, komanso kuti athe kupeza ntchito zomwe zilipo.
Pakadali pano, Neighborhood Legal Practice imayang'ana madera anayi a Cleveland: Kinsman, Central, Hough, ndi Broadway/Slavic Village.