Neighborhood Legal Services - Buffalo Site | Neighborhood Legal Services - Buffalo Site
Offers legal assistance in the following areas: - Disability: Offers disability rights services and legal advice/representation to developmentally disabled individuals and others. - Family Problems: Provides assistance with kinship custody and assistance for victims of domestic violence. - Housing Problems: Typically helps tenants who are facing eviction or who have been locked out of their apartments. Helps people who are applying for public or subsidized housing who have been denied, or tenants in public or subsidized housing who are worried about losing their subsidy or who have questions about how their rent has been calculated. Helps tenants whose landlords are not making necessary repairs and who are forced to live under unsafe or hazardous conditions. Also provides legal assistance and advocacy to people who have encountered discrimination while looking for housing, or during their tenancy. - Entitlements Advocacy: Assists tenants with welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, SSI, and utilities.
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211 Western New York
Physical Address
237 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203
Fax
(716) 847-0227
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Fax
(716) 847-0227
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Application process
Call.
Fee
Clients are sometimes required to pay some court costs.
Eligibility
Income: 125% of U.S. Poverty Level and/or Developmentally Disabled. Service Area: Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, & Wyoming Counties.
Service area
Orleans County, NY Niagara County, NY Genesee County, NY Erie County, NY Wyoming County, NY
Agency info
Neighborhood Legal Services (NLS), Inc.