Sara Hernandez

• Land Use - Entitlement of Affordable Housing: With a focus on addressing Los Angeles' homelessness crisis, Sara has worked on a large number of affordable housing projects across Los Angeles County including Prop HHH-funded projects, Bridge Home Housing and emergency shelters.
• Land Use Entitlement - Multi-family and Commercial: Sara has worked on all facets of the entitlement process for some of Southern California's biggest multi-family and commercial projects.
• Land Use - Project Management: Coordination of teams of professionals including architects, engineers, environmental scientists, community relations and communication consultants on major multi-family housing and commercial projects throughout the greater Southern California Region.
• CEQA: Work to obtain environmental clearances for development projects pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
• Government Affairs: Advises and assists clients in interactions with local and state government on a broad range of land use, public policy, legislative, legal and communications matters.
• Labor Agreements: Negotiation and drafting of various types of a project labor agreements that limit risk exposure and maximizes benefit for large scale multi-family, hotel and commercial projects.

Sara has done extensive pro-bono work representing indigent immigrants in asylum proceedings due to the devastating violence in the Northern Triangle. She has participated in the Southern Immigrant Freedom Initiative which represents detained immigrants at detention centers throughout the deep South and has assisted immigrant students with the renewal of their DACA status.

Sara had done pro bono real estate and land use work for La Plaza de Cultura y Arte, a museum of Mexican American history, art and culture in Los Angeles, where she is a current board member. She also serves on the boards of YES Scholars, the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic and the Latino Media Collaborative.