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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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Tenant Rights Information / Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
Public / Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Health Insurance Information / Counseling
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Legal Representation
Utility Disconnection Protection
Utility Bill Payment Plan Negotiation Assistance
Legal Counseling
Housing Discrimination Assistance
General Legal Aid
General Benefits Assistance
Domestic / Family Violence Legal Services
Eviction Prevention Legal Assistance
Child Custody / Visitation Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Provides civil legal services in the following areas: - Family Law: Assists with domestic violence cases, as well as with child support and divorce cases on a limited basis. - Housing: * Until further notice, the Housing Unit can only provide assistance with ERAP application issues and illegal lockout emergencies (ex: landlord changed locks, stopped a utility, etc. without going to court); cannot assist with any other housing-related issues at this time.* Typically assists with evictions, housing conditions, Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) issues, public and subsidized housing applications, terminations, illegal lockouts, landlord/tenant matters, and other issues. - Disability: Assists with SSI Appeals, SSI/SSD applications, advocacy for disabled individuals, benefits counseling, and funding of medical equipment. - Public Benefits: Assists with public assistance, food stamps/SNAP, Medicaid, denial of emergency rental and/or utility assistance, and homeless benefits. - Consumer Law: Assists with unfair debt collection practices and wage garnishment. Does not handle criminal cases, traffic tickets, money damage actions, estate work and real estate closings, torts, small claims court cases, worker's compensation cases, or unemployment.

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Divorce Assistance
Public / Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Health Insurance Information / Counseling
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Landlord Rights Information / Counseling
Consumer Law
Comprehensive Family Law Services
General Benefits Assistance
Domestic / Family Violence Legal Services
Welfare Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance / Enforcement
Tenant Rights Information / Counseling
Eviction Prevention Legal Assistance
Landlord / Tenant Dispute Resolution
General Legal Aid

Provides civil legal services regarding housing issues, consumer problems, income security/benefits, and language access.

Categories

Consumer Law
Housing Discrimination Assistance
Bankruptcy Assistance
Community Legal Clinics
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Legislative Advocacy
Criminal Justice/Legal System Reform Groups
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Legal Representation
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Pension Benefits Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Immigrant Benefits Assistance
Predatory Lending Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Counseling
Administrative Advocacy
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Consumer Education
Workers Compensation Benefits Assistance
Works to eliminate housing discrimination, promote open communities, and ensure equal access to housing opportunities for all people.

Categories

Subsidized Housing Fraud Reporting
Housing Advocacy Groups
Housing Complaints
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
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: * Until further notice, the Housing Unit can only provide assistance with ERAP application issues and illegal lockout emergencies (ex: landlord changed locks, stopped a utility, etc. without going to court); cannot assist with any other housing-related issues at this time.* 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.

Categories

Welfare Rights Assistance
Public / Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Health Insurance Information / Counseling
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Legal Representation
Legal Counseling
Housing Discrimination Assistance
General Legal Aid
General Benefits Assistance
Domestic / Family Violence Legal Services
Tenant Rights Information / Counseling
Eviction Prevention Legal Assistance
Child Custody / Visitation Assistance
Provides civil legal services for mental health consumers, including assistance related to: - Social Security Disability (SSD): Initial Benefits, Cessations, Overpayments - Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Initial Benefits, Child Benefits, Cessations, Overpayments, PASS - Medicaid/Medicare - Public Assistance: Food Stamps (SNAP), TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) - Housing: Landlord/Tenant issues, evictions, Section 8 informal hearings - Consumer Law: Debt collection assistance, student loan discharge, bankruptcy - Family Law: Child support modifications, divorce, custody and visitation

Categories

Child Support Wage Assignment Assistance
Public / Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Divorce Assistance
Consumer Law
General Benefits Assistance
Tenant Rights Information / Counseling
Eviction Prevention Legal Assistance
Child Custody / Visitation Assistance
Landlord / Tenant Dispute Resolution
Welfare Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance / Enforcement