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Offers a mediation program in which a neutral third party helps landlords and tenants communicate to resolve issues through voluntary, mutual agreement.

Program mediators help landlords and tenants work to resolve filed eviction cases through facilitated negotiation, with the aim of avoiding the need for future court intervention and keeping families in their home by guiding parties toward compromise.

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

- Evictions from mobile home parks.

- Evictions by private landlords.

- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Debt Management
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Adoption Legal Services
General Legal Aid
Legal Information Services
Debt Management
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Tax Information
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
School System Advocacy
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Legal Representation
Discrimination Assistance
Offers onsite legal assistance at the courthouse during hours eviction hearings are scheduled. Tenants may speak with an attorney for legal advice, help negotiating with their landlord, and possible representation at the hearing (representation is not guaranteed). Follow up case management services may also be offered.
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Adoption Legal Services
General Legal Aid
Legal Information Services
Debt Management
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Tax Information
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
School System Advocacy
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Legal Representation
Discrimination Assistance
Provides education, information, and referrals to landlords and tenants regarding their rights and responsibilities. Also help to explain eviction notices, talk about how to terminate tenancy, explain repairs/maintenance, and explain deposits. Home Inc. is not a legal service and does not have the ability to enforce any laws.

Can provide information and referrals for people who are looking for rental units.

Categories

Housing Counseling
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Provides legal representation in civil cases for low-income eligible Story County residents. Services include civil protective orders (domestic, sexual, and elder abuse), dissolution of marriage, child custody, visitation, will, power of attorney, paternity, guardianship, conservatorship, debtor/creditor, landlord/tenant, unemployment benefits appeals.

Categories

Labor and Employment Law
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
General Legal Aid
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Consumer Law
Legal Representation
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Will Preparation Assistance

Addresses the critical need of finding affordable housing for clients of Matt Talbot who are given a high priority on the city-wide housing list.

Cannot take calls from the public to assist in finding housing; MTKO uses the coordinated entry system to determine who the housing clients will be and only take on new clients if there are openings.

Through this project, staff builds constructive relationships with landlords to facilitate rapidly locating stable and safe permanent housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Housing Search Assistance

Offers to help people going through a residential eviction. The goal is to help families find a way to stay in the rental unit, or exit with dignity and to help reduce the number of court cases that would otherwise go through a lengthy eviction process. If you receive a summons to go to court for an eviction and would like to try to resolve your case through mediation, please contact our office. Unless ordered by a judge, mediation is voluntary for both sides.

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

- Evictions from mobile home parks.

- Evictions by private landlords.

- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Debt Management

Offers information of affordable housing for low-income migrant and farmworkers. Services include outreach and referrals for Illinois low-income home energy assistance program (LIHEAP), emergency overnight shelter for low-income farmworkers, referrals to Illinois agencies providing rent assistance services and housing foreclosure prevention counseling, housing information and education, rent smart, fair housing, tenant's rights, and coordination and housing advocates.

Categories

Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Homeless Motel Vouchers
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Adoption Legal Services
General Legal Aid
Legal Information Services
Debt Management
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Tax Information
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
School System Advocacy
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Legal Representation
Discrimination Assistance

Schedules meetings with disputing parties in safe, neutral settings.

Examples of parties the agency works with:

- Families experiencing divorce, to reach custody and parenting agreements

- Juvenile offenders, to see the harm caused by their crimes, rebuild trust, and reduce recidivism

- Neighbors facing property disputes in small claims court

- Parents and their children who are involved in the child welfare system

- Companies challenged with internal employee disputes, learning new ways to communicate

- Parents with concerns regarding their special needs child's instructional path

- Relatives navigating the care of their elders

- Tenants facing eviction and homelessness, to participate in mediation and reach agreements to remain in their housing or create a structured path forward

- Landlords looking at way to keep tenants in occupancy or to minimize expenses associated with the formal eviction process

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Conflict Resolution Training
Mediation

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

- Evictions from mobile home parks.

- Evictions by private landlords.

- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Debt Management

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

- Evictions from mobile home parks.

- Evictions by private landlords.

- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Debt Management
Rental Inspections Program is responsible for the registration of all residential rentals in the City limits of Marshalltown. Units are inspected approximately every three years for compliance. Staff also respond to written complaints from tenants.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
City Government Departments/Offices

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

- Evictions from mobile home parks.

- Evictions by private landlords.

- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Debt Management

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

- Evictions from mobile home parks.

- Evictions by private landlords.

- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Debt Management

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

- Evictions from mobile home parks.

- Evictions by private landlords.

- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Debt Management
Provides answers about rights of landlords and renters; provides inspections, code enforcement, and responds to complaints.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Housing Authorities
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Adoption Legal Services
General Legal Aid
Legal Information Services
Debt Management
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Tax Information
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Labor and Employment Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
School System Advocacy
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Legal Representation
Discrimination Assistance
Provides answers about rights of landlords and renters; provides inspections, code enforcement, and responds to complaints.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
City Government Departments/Offices

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

- Evictions from mobile home parks.

- Evictions by private landlords.

- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Debt Management
Provides answers about rights of landlords and renters; provides inspections, code enforcement, and responds to complaints.

Categories

City Government Departments/Offices
Landlord/Tenant Assistance

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

- Evictions from mobile home parks.

- Evictions by private landlords.

- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Debt Management