The Housing Options Program is a federally funded program from the Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD. The program provides financial assistance in the form of a housing choice subsidy to people who are homeless in Chester County who also have a confirmed disability. Applicants for the program must be referred through an agency participating on the Local Housing Options Team LHOT. If you have any questions about the Housing Options Program or would like to see if you may be eligible, have your case manager, counselor, or other treatment provider contact The Arc for more details.

Offers mediation services as an alternative to the court for resolving disputes such as: landlord/tenant problems, "fence" disputes between neighbors, disputes involving children/youth, minor civil/criminal complaints, domestic disputes, business/consumer disputes, and multi-party/multi-issue disputes. Offers training on mediation skills and workshops and seminars on conflict management, communication skills building, team building, and negotiation for adults and youth.

Legal consultation for low-income individuals on non-criminal issues including family law, landlord-tenant issues, Social Security, record expungement and employment concerns. No criminal matters. Walk-in early since space is limited and they can only see ten clients per session.

Litigates class actions, represent undocumented immigrants, and litigate against the government. CJP typically limits its advocacy to broad-based issues affecting large numbers of people. If low-income individual and assistance is required with an individual legal problem, please contact local legal services program.

For clients in private (landlord) housing, provides advice in cases involving eviction, illegal lockouts, unlawful termination of utilities, and homes in disrepair.



For clients in subsidized housing, provides advice on:
- admissions and evictions
- termination of Section 8
- utility allowance problems and repair problems
- disability accommodations
- domestic violence and assault-related housing issues
- PHA grievance hearings
- adding or removing family members from a lease
- recertification issues

Provides financial assistance on behalf of low to moderate income renters experiencing difficulty making rent payments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Experienced mediators.

Information on public meetings; speakers; literature on tenant and landlord rights including laws prohibiting discrimination, understanding evictions, reporting housing code violations, obtaining mortgages and home loans; low income housing and rental assistance; credit counseling for housing consumers; CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) review of financial institutions; and home ownership workshops.

Provides legal assistance if someone has been the victim of discrimination in housing.

Providing education and advocacy about Fair Housing, ensuring that the protected classes are not unfairly discriminated against when it comes to renting or buying a home as well as in financial lending practices. Housing: Fair Housing, Education, Referral, Advocacy.

Franklin County Legal Services provides legal representation, advice, and education to low-income individuals with civil legal problems.

We support low-wage workers as they pursue economic and social justice. We do this through the provision of Legal Services, Education, and Advocacy. We advance our mission by providing free legal representation on employment-related issues to eligible workers. We also provide community education on legal rights for migrant and immigrant workers throughout the Commonwealth.

Greene County Human Services Department offers a full continuum of housing services. The Philosophy of the County is to keep people housed whenever possible and if they become homeless, to assist them to move to permanent housing. Our programs serve the following:
Persons at risk of homelessness
Homeless
Persons with Behavioral Health (Mental Health and Drug Alcohol) Issues
Low Income families and individuals
Families involved with Children and Youth
Persons with Special Needs and/ or Disabilities
Seniors Youth in transition
Person involved in the Criminal Justice System
Veterans
The Greene County Housing Program continuum of services includes the following services that are described in more detail below:OutreachIntake and Coordinated Assessment PATH Services (help with housing for those with Behavioral Health needs)Homeless Prevention (evictions)
Rapid Rehousing (first month's rent)Emergency Shelter
Shelters Transitional HousingPermanent Housing Support Services
To access any of these housing services, contact:
Housing Outreach Specialist
Fort Jackson Building (3rd Floor)
19 South Washington Street, Waynesburg, PA 15370
Phone: 724-852-5276/ Fax: 724-852-5368
Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday

Provides credit, budget and housing counseling. Assists with tenant/landlord problems and fair housing problems.

Provides free civil legal services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless in Philadelphia. Areas of assistance include: establishing eligibility for benefits programs such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), medical assistance and food stamps (SNAP); establishing eligibility for Veterans Compensation and Pension benefits, and upgrading discharge characterizations; enforcing custody and other family law rights; accessing shelter and other supportive services; replacing or correcting identity documents; and preserving private and subsidized housing eligibility.

Fair Housing Enforcement and Education Services provides:

- Counseling for housing discrimination victims on their rights protected under fair housing laws
- Information for consumers, nonprofits, and communities on how to recognize and report violations
- Testing investigation services for housing discrimination victims
- Information on legal options and assistance in navigating the legal process
- Random testing to ensure regional compliance with fair housing laws
- Technical assistance to prevent discrimination before it occurs
- Comprehensive and individually tailored education programs provided on site, online or at FHCSP's training facility in Fort Washington for private landlords, property managers, real estate professionals, consumers, homeowners' associations, housing authority staff, CDBG funded nonprofits, local government, social service agencies, etc.

Integra Home Counseling Inc.(IHC), will soon be rebranded "Envision Home Guidance Center" IHC is the only U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Approved Housing Counseling Agency located in Monroe County PA with 2 HUD Certified Housing Counselors on staff, one of which is a Certified Financial Coach, along with being an Act 91 Housing Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program (HEMAP) Approved Agency through the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA).
Our HUD Housing Counseling Program supports the delivery of a wide variety of housing counseling services to homebuyers, homeowners, low- to moderate-income renters, and the unhoused (often referred to as homeless).


The primary objectives of our Program are to improve financial literacy, expand homeownership opportunities, improve access to affordable housing, and preserve homeownership.





Our staff of HUD Certified Housing Counselors are trained to provide the following services:


-Financial Management/Budget Counseling

-Financial, Budgeting, and Credit Repair Workshops

-Fair Housing Education Workshops

-Home Improvement and Rehabilitation Counseling

-Mortgage Delinquency and Default Resolution Counseling

-Non-Delinquency Post Purchase Workshops and Counseling

-Pre-Home Purchase Counseling
-Pre-Purchase Homebuyer Education Workshops

-Predatory Lending Education Workshops

-Rental Housing Counseling and Workshops

-Resolving/Preventing Mortgage Delinquency
-Reverse Mortgage Counseling

-Housing Counseling Services for the Unhoused

Our Pre-home purchase counseling can help homebuyers become eligible for various financial benefits, including:


-Down payment assistance programs

-Closing cost grants

-Below market mortgage rates
-Fixed-rate loans



-Provided information on fair housing, fair lending, and accessibility rights
-Developed sustainable household budgets
-Assisted clients to improve their financial capacity (reduce debt load, increase savings, increase credit score)
-Provided access to housing and non-housing resources
-Assisted unhoused or potentially unhoused households to obtain housing
-Aided tenants to avoid eviction
-Helped first-time homebuyers obtain mortgages
-Assisted homeowners with understanding home equity conversion mortgages (HECM)
-Aided homeowners to improve their home conditions and affordability
-Assisted homeowners facing foreclosure to prevent or resolve a mortgage default and stay in their home.

Local attorneys offer pro bono legal representation for civil cases.
Handles a broad spectrum of civil cases, including the following:
landlord-tenant, debtor-creditor problems, mortgage foreclosures, unemployment compensation, termination of social security or SSI benefits, uninsured tort defense, family law and other serious civil matters.

Provides free civil legal representation to low-income clients.

Cases handled include family, consumer and housing law and public benefits within program priorities. LLS assists survivors of domestic violence in Protection From Abuse actions without regard to income.

Provides services in civil cases and small claims dealing with consumer issues (bankruptcy, foreclosures), housing, abuse, elder law, custody and public benefits. Pro bono programs available.

Housing Law services offer free civil legal information for financially eligible individuals and groups who need assistance with consumer and housing matters.

Services Include:
Mortgage Foreclosure
, Consumer Protection
, Subsidized and Public Housing
, Evictions
, Landlord/tenant issues

Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania (LASP) provides free civil legal services in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties. In addition, Pro Bono programs in all four counties are avenues through which private attorneys willing to donate their time, advise and represent low-income clients, victims of domestic abuse and the elderly.

Legal Services include:
- Consumer problems (including bankruptcy, debt relief, foreclosures and sheriff's sales)
- Custody
- Denial/Termination of government benefits
- Domestic Violence
- Elder law issues
- Employment law
- Expungement of criminal records, Clean Slate and pardons
- Housing, including mortgage foreclosure, landlord/tenant, evictions, public housing and Section 8, subsidized housing
- Protection from Abuse orders (PFAs)
- Public Benefits, including Unemployment Compensation, SSI, SSDI, TANF (cash assistance), SNAP (food stamps), Medical Assistance (Medicare), and more
- Utilities
- Veterans

Housing Law services offer free civil legal information for financially eligible individuals and groups who need assistance with consumer and housing matters.

Services Include:
- Predatory Lending
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Consumer Protection
- Subsidized and Public Housing
- Evictions
- Landlord/tenant issues

Legal Services at Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania (LASP) provides services in civil cases and small claims. In addition, Pro Bono programs operating in all five counties are avenues through which private attorneys willing to donate their time, advise and represent low-income clients, victims of domestic abuse and the elderly.

Legal Services include:
Consumer problems (including bankruptcy, foreclosures and sheriff's sales)
, Custody
, Denial/Termination of government benefits, Elder law issues
, Housing (including Landlord/Tenant disputes, Public Housing and Section 8)
, Protection from abuse
, Social Security
, Employment (including unemployment compensation and expungement of criminal records)
, Utilities

Housing Law services offer free civil legal information for financially eligible individuals and groups who need assistance with consumer and housing matters.

Services Include:
- Predatory Lending
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Consumer Protection
- Subsidized and Public Housing
- Evictions
- Landlord/tenant issues

Legal Services at Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania (LASP) provides services in civil cases and small claims. In addition, Pro Bono programs operating in all five counties are avenues through which private attorneys willing to donate their time, advise and represent low-income clients, victims of domestic abuse and the elderly.

Legal Services include:
- Consumer problems (including bankruptcy, foreclosures and sheriff's sales)
- Custody
- Denial/Termination of government benefits
- Elder law issues
- Housing (including Landlord/Tenant disputes, Public Housing and Section 8)
- Protection from abuse
- Social Security
- Employment (including unemployment compensation and expungement of criminal records)
- Utilities

Housing Law services offer free civil legal information for financially eligible individuals and groups who need assistance with consumer and housing matters.

Services Include:
- Predatory Lending
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Consumer Protection
- Subsidized and Public Housing
- Evictions
- Landlord/tenant issues

Legal Services at Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania (LASP) provides services in civil cases and small claims. In addition, Pro Bono programs operating in all five counties are avenues through which private attorneys willing to donate their time, advise and represent low-income clients, victims of domestic abuse and the elderly.

Legal Services include:
- Consumer problems (including bankruptcy, foreclosures and sheriff's sales)
- Custody
- Denial/Termination of government benefits
- Elder law issues
- Housing (including Landlord/Tenant disputes, Public Housing and Section 8)
- Protection from abuse
- Social Security
- Employment (including unemployment compensation and expungement of criminal records)
- Utilities

Legal Services at Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania (LASP) provides services in civil cases and small claims. In addition, Pro Bono programs operating in all five counties are avenues through which private attorneys willing to donate their time, advise and represent low-income clients, victims of domestic abuse and the elderly.

Legal Services include:
- Consumer problems (including bankruptcy, foreclosures and sheriff's sales)
- Custody
- Denial/Termination of government benefits
- Elder law issues
- Housing (including Landlord/Tenant disputes, Public Housing and Section 8)
- Protection from abuse
- Social Security
- Employment (including unemployment compensation and expungement of criminal records)
- Utilities

Housing Law services offer free civil legal information for financially eligible individuals and groups who need assistance with consumer and housing matters.

Services Include:
- Predatory Lending
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Consumer Protection
- Subsidized and Public Housing
- Evictions
- Landlord/tenant issues

Low cost ($10.00 to $60.oo)conflict resolution services offered on a sliding scale for various kinds of disputes: landlord- tenant, amicable divorce, workplace, agency-client, family, elder. Twenty two hour mediation training for agencies, law personnel, citizens, local government bodies-annual.

Customized workshops for organizations: 2,4, and 6-hour on communication skills and conflict management.

Settles non-legal matters, provides trained mediators for disputes involving neighbors, neighborhood groups, youth-related problems and fights, landlord/tenant, noise, trash, business/consumer, child custody, harassment/vandalism and other minor criminal issues.

No domestic violence problems.
Mediation training and conflict resolution services.

Provides free civil legal services to low income individuals and families without the means to hire a private attorney. Provides representation to survivors of domestic violence in Protection from Abuse (PFA) proceedings. May provide direct representation, advice, assistance in self-representation, brief service, limited legal assistance or referral to a private attorney (including free and reduced-fee), depending on case. Provides community education on legal topics.

While NLSA does not provide assistance with Veterans' Benefits, they can provide legal assistance to eligible veterans who are having problems with their housing, utilities, or other issues within NLSA's priorities.

Provides free civil legal services to low income individuals and families without the means to hire a private attorney. Provides representation to survivors of domestic violence in Protection from Abuse (PFA) proceedings. May provide direct representation, advice, assistance in self-representation, brief service, limited legal assistance or referral to a private attorney (including free and reduced-fee), depending on case. Provides community education on legal topics.

While NLSA does not provide assistance with Veterans' Benefits, they can provide legal assistance to eligible veterans who are having problems with their housing, utilities, or other issues within NLSA's priorities.

Provides free civil legal services to low income individuals and families without the means to hire a private attorney. Provides representation to survivors of domestic violence in Protection from Abuse (PFA) proceedings. May provide direct representation, advice, assistance in self-representation, brief service, limited legal assistance or referral to a private attorney (including free and reduced-fee), depending on case. Provides community education on legal topics.

While NLSA does not provide assistance with Veterans' Benefits, they can provide legal assistance to eligible veterans who are having problems with their housing, utilities, or other issues within NLSA's priorities.

Provides free civil legal services to low income individuals and families without the means to hire a private attorney. Provides representation to survivors of domestic violence in Protection from Abuse (PFA) proceedings. May provide direct representation, advice, assistance in self-representation, brief service, limited legal assistance or referral to a private attorney (including free and reduced-fee), depending on case. Provides community education on legal topics.

While NLSA does not provide assistance with Veterans' Benefits, they can provide legal assistance to eligible veterans who are having problems with their housing, utilities, or other issues within NLSA's priorities.

Provides:
- Rental Assistance households with arrears
- Security Deposit for homeless household
- Housing Search Assistance
- Tenent rights information and counseling
- Experienced mediators

Focus on private landlord/tenant evictions and evictions from public housing, mortgage foreclosure defense including cases of bankruptcy, utility shut-offs, protection of rights and preservation of eligibility related to subsidized housing, enforcing legal protections in regards to habitability and the recovery of tenant property illegally seized or retained by landlords.

Focus on private landlord/tenant evictions and evictions from public housing, mortgage foreclosure defense including cases of bankruptcy, utility shut-offs, protection of rights and preservation of eligibility related to subsidized housing, enforcing legal protections in regards to habitability and the recovery of tenant property illegally seized or retained by landlords.

Focus on private landlord/tenant evictions and evictions from public housing, mortgage foreclosure defense including cases of bankruptcy, utility shut-offs, protection of rights and preservation of eligibility related to subsidized housing, enforcing legal protections in regards to habitability and the recovery of tenant property illegally seized or retained by landlords.

Description of Service Focus on private landlord/tenant evictions and evictions from public housing, mortgage foreclosure defense including cases of bankruptcy, utility shut-offs, protection of rights and preservation of eligibility related to subsidized housing, enforcing legal protections in regards to habitability and the recovery of tenant property illegally seized or retained by landlords

Focus on private landlord/tenant evictions and evictions from public housing, mortgage foreclosure defense including cases of bankruptcy, utility shut-offs, protection of rights and preservation of eligibility related to subsidized housing, enforcing legal protections in regards to habitability and the recovery of tenant property illegally seized or retained by landlords.

Focus on private landlord/tenant evictions and evictions from public housing, mortgage foreclosure defense including cases of bankruptcy, utility shut-offs, protection of rights and preservation of eligibility related to subsidized housing, enforcing legal protections in regards to habitability and the recovery of tenant property illegally seized or retained by landlords.

Focus on private landlord/tenant evictions and evictions from public housing, mortgage foreclosure defense including cases of bankruptcy, utility shut-offs, protection of rights and preservation of eligibility related to subsidized housing, enforcing legal protections in regards to habitability and the recovery of tenant property illegally seized or retained by landlords.

Focus on private landlord/tenant evictions and evictions from public housing, mortgage foreclosure defense including cases of bankruptcy, utility shut-offs, protection of rights and preservation of eligibility related to subsidized housing, enforcing legal protections in regards to habitability and the recovery of tenant property illegally seized or retained by landlords.

Focus on private landlord/tenant evictions and evictions from public housing, mortgage foreclosure defense including cases of bankruptcy, utility shut-offs, protection of rights and preservation of eligibility related to subsidized housing, enforcing legal protections in regards to habitability and the recovery of tenant property illegally seized or retained by landlords.

Ensuring and improving the availability and accessibility of low-income and affordable housing in the Northside Communities while improving the lives of families.

Provides free legal representation to low income people with civil legal problems. Free legal aid may be provided in cases involving: Public Benefits, Housing, Family Law, Employment & Education, and Consumer Law.

Provides free legal representation to low income people with civil legal problems. Free legal aid may be provided in cases involving public benefits, housing, family law, employment, education, and consumer law.

Provides free legal representation to low income people with civil legal problems. Free legal aid may be provided in cases involving: Public Benefits, Housing, Family Law, Employment & Education, and Consumer Law.

Provides free legal representation to low income people with civil legal problems. Free legal aid may be provided in cases involving Public Benefits, Housing, Family Law, Employment & Education, and Consumer Law.

Provides free legal representation to low income people with civil legal problems. Free legal aid may be provided in cases involving Public Benefits, Housing, Family Law, Employment & Education, and Consumer Law.

Provides free legal representation to low income people with civil legal problems. Free legal aid may be provided in cases involving Public Benefits, Housing, Family Law, Employment & Education, and Consumer Law.

Provides holistic legal advice and counsel, and short-term representation to victims of rape and sexual assault

Services includes: crime victim support, eviction prevention legal assistance, landlord/tenant dispute resolution and lawyer referral services

Provides free legal counseling for civil cases in such areas as family law, landlord-tenant, public benefits, consumer protection, wills, power of attorney and bankruptcy.

Mediation is a voluntary and confidential process that brings both sides together with a mediator to resolve conflicts. The mediator does not make a decision, but rather helps both sides come to an agreement The goal being to prevent eviction so tenant can remain in home or give more time to relocate.

Provides financial assistance on behalf of low to moderate income renters experiencing difficulty making rent payments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Experienced mediators.

Provides legal services that address affordable housing, lendlord tenant law, foreclosures, fair housing, and federal/state programs.

Helps low-income citizens with a variety of civil legal problems, especially those of an emergency nature. Works with clients to improve their ability to be self-sufficient through obtaining and/or enforcing their right to necessary economic, employment, housing, medical and other public resources. Legal services include family law, consumer law, housing, Protection From Abuse, public benefits and unemployment compensation, and mortgage foreclosure avoidance.

Advises and represents low-income citizens’ family, housing and economic legal problems, especially those of an emergency nature. Works with clients to improve their ability to be self-sufficient through obtaining and/or enforcing their rights to necessary economic, employment, housing, medical and other public resources. Legal services include Protection From Abuse, family law, consumer law, housing, public assistance, unemployment compensation, and mortgage foreclosure avoidance.

Helps low-income citizens with a variety of civil legal problems, especially those of an emergency nature. Works with clients to improve their ability to be self-sufficient through obtaining and/or enforcing their right to necessary economic, employment, housing, medical and other public resources. Legal services include family law, consumer law, housing, Protection From Abuse, public benefits and unemployment compensation, and mortgage foreclosure avoidance.

Helps low-income citizens with a variety of civil legal problems, especially those of an emergency nature. Works with clients to improve their ability to be self-sufficient through obtaining and/or enforcing their right to necessary economic, employment, housing, medical and other public resources. Legal services include family law, consumer law, housing, Protection From Abuse, public benefits and unemployment compensation, and mortgage foreclosure avoidance.

Landlord-Tenant Mediation Program helps avoid evictions for renters and provide financial stability for landlords.
Union-Snyder Community Action and Susquehanna Valley Mediation are working together to connect renters and landlords to rental assistance, legal information, and professional mediation services with trained, impartial mediators, in the vent of a landlord-tenant conflict.
Landlords and tenants must agree to try mediation.

Provides financial assistance on behalf of low to moderate income renters experiencing difficulty making rent payments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Experienced mediators.

Crime Victims Law Project (CVLP) provides victims of sexual
violence, dating violence and stalking receive pro bono legal representation for matters including (but not limited to): Protection from Abuse Orders (PFAs), Child Custody/Visitation, Spousal Support/Alimony, Divorce, Landlord/Tenant issues, etc.

The Luzerne County Pro Bono Program is a newly initiated program run by the Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association’s Pro Bono Committee.
The pro bono’s services are only for people with little or no income. Because the Luzerne County Pro Bono program is newly established, our focus is primarily on landlord/tenant cases. Those with other legal issues should first contact the other organizations listed below. (See Helpful Tips). Luzerne County Pro Bono does not handle criminal cases.
If you need free legal assistance in Luzerne County, you can apply for Luzerne County Pro Bono services by emailing luzernecountyprobono@gmail.com. You can also follow us on Facebook.

Restricted to non-fee generating services, like consultation on civil legal problems, Advance Directives, Power of Attorney and wills. This service is limited to low-income individuals.

OTHER LEGAL ISSUES CONSIDERED:

Landlord/tenant disputes

• Health Care benefit issues
  
• Consumer fraud issues
  
  
• Statewide Elder Abuse HOTLINE: 1-800-490-8505
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