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Offers counseling on reverse mortgages and mortgage delinquency.

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

-- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

-- Evictions from mobile home parks.

-- Evictions by private landlords.

-- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

-- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

-- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Services

Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Debt Management

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

-- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

-- Evictions from mobile home parks.

-- Evictions by private landlords.

-- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

-- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

-- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Services

Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Debt Management
Provides workshops to repay unsecured debt at lower interest and fees. Counselors provides clients with a program suited to their ability to pay and provides an estimate of the time to complete the program. Also offers: - Assistance with housing issues - Debt - Bankruptcy - Student loans. Note: Program in currently looking for a new location. Address listed is main agency. Contact for help and more details.
Offers free HUD-approved housing counseling and mediation services for people facing foreclosure. The court-appointed mediator will help the individual and lender reach a meaningful solution.
Offers legal representation in areas of civil law to low-income individuals and seniors. Legal matters include: Public Benefits: - Loss or denial of SSI, TANF, Veterans Benefits, SNAP (food stamps) Family Law: - Abuse or exploitation for persons facing domestic violence, elderly, children, and individuals with disabilities. - Divorce and related relief for persons facing domestic violence Housing Law: - Evictions and lock-outs - Foreclosure defense - Loss or denial of subsidized housing benefits - Loss or denial of essential public utilities - Substandard housing conditions cases that cannot be addressed by other agencies Health Care: - Loss or denial of medical or nursing home care - Loss or denial of medical benefits (Medicaid, Medicare) - Guardianships and Powers of Attorney Other income benefits where alternative representation is unavailable: - Loss or denial of unemployment insurance - Social Security Disability benefits Tax Law: - Disputes or audits with the IRS - Appeals and cases in court - Protection from Collection - Innocent Spouse Relief - Tax-related Identity Theft - State tax issues (if a related federal tax issue)
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services offers a team of volunteer legal assistants that provide legal services free of cost to low-income individuals.

Services

Land Deeds/Titles
Consumer Law
Adoption Legal Services
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Divorce Mediation
Living Wills
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Comprehensive Immigration/Naturalization Services
Bankruptcy Assistance
Finances the creation and preservation of affordable housing throughout the state to increase the supply of decent and safe places for people of low or moderate means to live. Services include: - First-time home buyer information; home purchase and loan assistance. - SmartBuy program - will pay up to $40,000 in student loans, or a loan up to $5,000 to be used for down payment or closing costs. - Listing of apartment developments financed by IHDA. - Foreclosure Prevention Network provides free phone counseling to homeowners experiencing difficulty making mortgage payments. - Housing Counseling: Financial literacy and pre-purchase counseling.

Services

Housing Counseling
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Low Cost Home Rental Listings
First Time Buyer Home Loans
Helps low-income residents who cannot afford an attorney file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
A free, one-stop resource to connect homeowners with important tools, including access to counseling services, legal advice, mortgage payment assistance programs, foreclosure prevention events, and tips on how to avoid mortgage fraud.
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Services

Legal Representation
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Patient Rights Assistance
Debt Management
General Legal Aid
Discrimination Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
School System Advocacy
Adoption Legal Services
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Tax Information
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Protective/Restraining Orders
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Consumer Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Debt counseling at low cost.

Budgeting assistance.

Pre-filing bankruptcy counseling.

Help interpreting credit reports.

Housing education and counseling.

Community education and speaker's bureau, educational information for companies experiencing layoffs.

Services

Debt Management
Housing Counseling
Financial Literacy Training
Personal Financial Counseling
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Services

Legal Representation
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Patient Rights Assistance
Debt Management
General Legal Aid
Discrimination Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
School System Advocacy
Adoption Legal Services
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Tax Information
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Protective/Restraining Orders
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Consumer Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Housing counseling, foreclosure counseling. Closing cost assistance for homebuyers. Some funds available for households in foreclosure due to COVID.

Services

Community Development Corporations
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Housing Down Payment Loans/Grants
Debt Management
Housing Counseling

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

-- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

-- Evictions from mobile home parks.

-- Evictions by private landlords.

-- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

-- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

-- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Services

Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Debt Management

Provides free legal advice, brief service and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).

Services

Debt Management
Elder Law
Legal Information Services
Will Preparation Assistance
Housing Counseling
Tax Information
Welfare Rights Assistance
General Legal Aid
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Labor and Employment Law
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Legal Representation
Legal Counseling
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

-- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

-- Evictions from mobile home parks.

-- Evictions by private landlords.

-- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

-- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

-- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Services

Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Debt Management
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Services

Legal Representation
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Patient Rights Assistance
Debt Management
General Legal Aid
Discrimination Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
School System Advocacy
Adoption Legal Services
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Tax Information
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Protective/Restraining Orders
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Consumer Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Information Services
Any homeowner behind on their mortgage may call and receive free foreclosure prevention counseling from a HUD-approved non-profit agency.
Chicago Volunteer Legal Services has been appointed by serve as representatives for Guardian Ad Litem, for children who need representation in domestic cases, represent low-income individuals representing themselves in foreclosure defense litigation and representation to low-income individuals in probate court.

Services

Child Guardianship Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Estate Entitlement Assistance
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Adult Guardianship Assistance
CEDA's staff of HUD-certified Housing Counselors are available to assist with foreclosure prevention, pre-purchase, post-purchase, rental counseling, and financial counseling. We can also help identify those who qualify for new COVID-19 rent/mortgage relief programs.

Services

Tenant Readiness Education Programs
Personal Financial Counseling
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Homeless Diversion Programs
Homebuyer/Home Purchase Counseling
Open Communities provides foreclosure counseling.

Services

Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

-- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

-- Evictions from mobile home parks.

-- Evictions by private landlords.

-- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

-- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

-- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Services

Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Debt Management
As a HUD-approved housing counseling agency, CASL specializes in providing housing and financial services, and resources to teens and adults with multiple barriers-including new immigrants, individuals with low English language proficiency, and lack of resources. Everyone is welcome to seek assistance at CASL! Check the CASL Calendar for upcoming Housing and Financial workshops.

Services

Homebuyer/Home Purchase Counseling
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Credit Denial Assistance
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Services

Legal Representation
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Patient Rights Assistance
Debt Management
General Legal Aid
Discrimination Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
School System Advocacy
Adoption Legal Services
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Tax Information
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Protective/Restraining Orders
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Consumer Law
Will Preparation Assistance
Legal Information Services