Project Description: This project will implement a new partnership to provide a broad spectrum of legal and financial services to distressed homeowners including legal intervention, loan modification, bankruptcy filing and housing counseling. Where foreclosure cannot be avoided, the project will assist homeowners and tenants through eviction defense, re-location, financial education, credit repair, and referrals for counseling and educational resources. Additionally, the project will provide education and outreach to underserved communities to inform them of community resources and their rights under the California Homeowner Bill of Rights. Contact: 805-963-6754 or Website: Legal Services of Northern California ($725,000) Housing and Economic Rights Advocates Sub-Recipient: Counties: Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sierra, Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Plumas, Tehama, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Trinity, Mendocino, Lake, Solano County, Yolo and Sacramento. Languages/Populations: Low-income, geographically isolated, limited English proficiency, seniors and persons with disabilities. Project Description: This project will provide a variety of services to some of the most vulnerable current and former homeowners and renters, including people who are low-income, geographically isolated, limited-English proficient, senior and disabled. The focus will be to reduce and/or remedy the devastating effects of home loss, as well as to eliminate barriers to economic security in 23 mostly rural Northern California counties. Contact: (916) 551-2150 Website: Mission Economic Development Agency ($550,000) Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, East Los Angeles Sub-Recipients: Community Corporation and Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire. Counties: Bay Area (San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, and Contra Costa), Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside. Languages/Populations: Latino and Spanish speaking. Project Description: This project will provide outreach, homeownership counseling, foreclosure intervention, financial education and supportive services to low/moderate-income Latino families in Northern and Southern California. The will include: integrated innovative “housing+” strategy bilingual services for prospective and at-risk homeowners; capacity building, training and shared
Project Description: This project will implement a new partnership to provide a broad spectrum of legal and financial services to distressed homeowners including legal intervention, loan modification, bankruptcy filing and housing counseling. Where foreclosure cannot be avoided, the project will assist homeowners and tenants through eviction defense, re-location, financial education, credit repair, and referrals for counseling and educational resources. Additionally, the project will provide education and outreach to underserved communities to inform them of community resources and their rights under the California Homeowner Bill of Rights. Contact: 805-963-6754 or Website: Legal Services of Northern California ($725,000) Sub-Recipient: Housing and Economic Rights Advocates Counties: Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sierra, Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Plumas, Tehama, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Trinity, Mendocino, Lake, Solano County, Yolo and Sacramento. Languages/Populations: Low-income, geographically isolated, limited English proficiency, seniors and persons with disabilities. Project Description: This project will provide a variety of services to some of the most vulnerable current and former homeowners and renters, including people who are low-income, geographically isolated, limited-English proficient, senior and disabled. The focus will be to reduce and/or remedy the devastating effects of home loss, as well as to eliminate barriers to economic security in 23 mostly rural Northern California counties. Contact: (916) 551-2150 Website: Mission Economic Development Agency ($550,000) Sub-Recipients: Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, East Los Angeles Community Corporation and Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire. Counties: Bay Area (San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, and Contra Costa), Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside. Languages/Populations: Latino and Spanish speaking. Project Description: This project will provide outreach, homeownership counseling, foreclosure intervention, financial education and supportive services to low/moderate-income Latino families in Northern and Southern California. The innovative “housing+” strategy will include: integrated bilingual services for prospective and at-risk homeowners; capacity building, training and shared
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