This article discusses the impacts of housing law advocacy by clinical law students at Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City (CLASSIC) through an analysis of CLASSIC’s 2017 closed housing law files. Our analysis shows that law student advocacy at the Office of Residential Tenancies (Saskatchewan’s housing law tribunal) is often associated with decisions in favour of tenants. This is consistent with studies that show that full legal representation is associated with improved litigation outcomes for clients. But our analysis also demonstrates the numerous limits to individual advocacy in housing law contexts. Our study contributes to the literature about the impacts of clinical law programs through a nuanced, contextual, and ground-level discussion of the housing advocacy by clinical law students and their clients within a community legal clinic
