HOUSING PRESERVATION & HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION

Legal Aid realizes that shelter is a basic human need – and that individual dignity and family stability begins with safe and adequate housing. Furthermore, for struggling working families and lower to middle-income households, homeownership and the chance to build equity is a primary vehicle to build wealth, generate savings, and avoid generational cycles of poverty.

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Legal Aid offers the following assistance on housing-related legal matters:

• Foreclosure defense – and alternatives to foreclosure
• Eviction defense – and defense of unlawful shutoff of utilities by Landlord; unsafe living conditions, improper retention of security deposit or personal property
• Housing discrimination
• Americans with Disabilities Act claims – failure to make reasonable accommodations required under law
• Removing barriers to affordable housing
• Section 8
• Resolving disputes concerning mobile homes
• HOA liens and Reverse mortgages
• Senior Housing and assisted living
• Remedies for victims of domestic violence – including seeking remedies for Exclusive Use and Possession of the Marital Home
• Disaster Relief Legal Services