When available, Oakland Housing Authority offers rent subsidies to clients who qualify through a variety of different programs. Potential residents are encouraged to apply for housing that meets the needs of their household when pre-applications are being accepted. Generally, applicants are selected through a lottery process and placed on Waiting Lists until housing is available for specific units based on family composition.
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The Legal Aid Society advocates educating, organizing, and empowering tenants to exercise their human right to affordable and safe housing, with an emphasis on foreclosure prevention.
U.D.(Eviction) Answers Clinic*
*call to confirm eligibility
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Through volunteers and staff, PLC provides free civil legal services, including counseling, individual representation, community education, and strategic litigation and advocacy to challenge societal injustices.
PLC works to preserve and create affordable housing in Orange County, prevent homelessness, and assist tenants who are being unfairly evicted or who are subjected to sub-standard living conditions. PLC can assist with:
Public Counsel provides a wide variety of legal services to low-income individuals, nonprofits, and small businesses.
Public Counsel's Homelessness Prevention Law Project: eviction defense team provides assistance through direct representation at the Stanley Mosk and Pasadena Courthouses; prepare self-represented tenants through their clinics to assist them in defending their right to stay in their home and prevent them from becoming homeless.
Public Counsel's Consumer Law Project: protects consumers from unlawful debt collection and consumer fraud.
IMPACT promotes tenants becoming owners. We are lawyers and brokers, representing tenants buying their units and groups of tenants buying their buildings. DRE 02078337, https://impactindeed.com
IMPACT is a social justice real estate organization, assists with tenants and nonprofits buying apartment buildings to secure affordability and prevent evictions, and addresses issues with COPA/TOPA and tenant rights to purchase under Civil Code 2924m.
Since 1956, Legal Services of Northern California has provided quality legal services that empower the poor to identify and defeat the causes and effects of poverty. LSNC’s service priorities include the preservation of housing; health care; enhancing economic stability; support for families, family safety, and stability; civil rights; education; and serving populations with special vulnerabilities.
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ECHO Housing services include
1) Tenant/Landlord Counseling Program
2) Rental Assistance Program
3) Fair Housing Program
Since 1956, Legal Services of Northern California has provided quality legal services that empower the poor to identify and defeat the causes and effects of poverty. LSNC’s service priorities include the preservation of housing; health care; enhancing economic stability; support for families, family safety, and stability; civil rights; education; and serving populations with special vulnerabilities.
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