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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

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

Provides information about rights and responsibilities for tenants and landlords. Offers advocacy and referrals to resources on behalf of tenants in Champaign County experiencing rental issues such as neglected property maintenance, disputes about damage deposit deductions, evictions, unlawful discrimination, violations of lease by landlord, tenant rights under state and local laws. Services may also provide a monthly "Low-Cost Housing List" which provides contact information for the local Housing Authority, privately-owned subsidized housing, and small number of other options.

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.

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

Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals 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

Mediation
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Conflict Resolution Training

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

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

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

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

Categories

Housing Authorities
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
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
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Legal Representation
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Patient Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protective/Restraining Orders
Advance Medical Directives
Adoption Legal Services
Debt Management
Consumer Law
Legal Information Services
School System Advocacy
Veteran Benefits Assistance
General Legal Aid
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Provide assistance to landlords in being licensed and to register all of their residential properties within the city limits.

Categories

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

Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals 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

Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals 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

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

Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
The Allamakee County Bar Association offers consultation service that provides information to the general public to determine whether an attorney is needed for their particular problem. Attorneys meet with individuals free of charge and provide referrals to legal services, a private attorney, or law enforcement. Attorneys offer advice on family law (i.e. divorce), landlord-tenant issues, lawsuits and small claims, financial problems, consumer law, traffic and criminal violations, employment, public benefits, guardianships of children, restraining orders between adults and adults and children and other areas. The Legal Clinic is open on an as needed basis and is typically open every other Mondays; interested parties must first contact the Clerk of Courts office to sign up for clinic. NOTE: Senior Citizen Legal Services is provided through Northland Area Agency on Aging.

Categories

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

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

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