The Community Legal Information Center (CLIC) is a student-run, non-profit organization that has been providing legal information to students and community members for over 40 years. Free legal information is offered in 11 areas of the law, including housing.
We are just another four more people that are renters facing foreclosure. The owner has two (possibly three)notices of default@the Sacramento County Recorder's Office posted 8/5/08. The owner has made poor decisions resulting in short-falls, two pending foreclosures. He wasn't collecting rent from tenants with hard-luck histories, empathizing himself into a hard-luck situation of his own. He procrastinated many months before resorting to legal action to evict dead-beat tenants. One tenant stayed at a downtown residence for nearly two years, not paying rent.
The Housing Rights Center (HRC) offers an array of services:
1) Housing Discrimination Complaint Investigation
2) Landlord-Tenant Counseling (in-person or through hotline)
Community Legal Aid SoCal is dedicated to meeting the legal needs of the greatest number of low-income people throughout Orange and Los Angeles Counties.
We are able to provide assistance in the following areas. Contact us to learn more about how we can help with:
Affordable Housing Advocates (AHA) provides free legal representation in impact housing and tenants' rights cases in the city and county of San Diego through two projects:
My wife and I lost our house to foreclosure. We now live in a hotel with our young boys because no one wants to rent to us. We need help!
Inland Counties Legal Services, Inc. pursues justice and equality for low-income people through counsel, advice, advocacy, and community education, treating all with dignity and respect.
The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County’s vision is for every person to have the basic necessities of life, including safe affordable housing, access to health care, economic security, secure immigration status, an appropriate education, and freedom from violence and abuse.
Tenant Rights Clinics:
LSNC is a federal, state and local-funded legal services program providing civil representation to low-income clients in 23 counties in Northern California.
Housing priorities address: Assisting clients with the creation and preservation of low-income housing, tenants rights, evictions and lock outs, foreclosures, quality of housing, mobile homes, mitigation of homelessness, termination of utilities, unsafe housing, and lost of shelter because of natural disasters.
Contact your local LSNC office for more information about our services available in your area:
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.
updated 07/19_FC