{"id":844,"date":"2011-04-28T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devfirm.churchwebprogram.com?page_id=844"},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:52:26","slug":"legal-and-housing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/firminc.org\/legal-and-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Housing Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Refugees who have very few resources often rent apartments or homes.&nbsp; Occasionally, an unscrupulous landlord has tried to take advantage of their tenants, exploiting refugees&#8217; limited English, cultural differences or fears about being deported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Central California Legal Services (CCLS)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralcallegal.org\/en\/services\/housing\">Central California Legal Services (CCLS)<\/a> is a strong community partner as a resource for legal assistance in a number of issues. &nbsp;Housing is one issue that they are passionate about! &nbsp;Their Housing Team consists of attorneys and paralegals that assist and advise tenants in Fresno, Merced, Tulare, Kings, Mariposa, and Tuolumne counties.&nbsp; CCLS&#8217; main focus within housing is on residential Landlord-Tenant issues.&nbsp; Due to the imminent nature of landlord-tenant defense, CCLS prioritizes our resources on keeping families and individuals in their homes by avoiding eviction.&nbsp; This can be accomplished through several methods, including but not limited to education on tenant rights and responsibilities, negotiation and representation. &nbsp;Please click on the link for more information and many great free resources!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">California Rural Legal Assistance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crla.org\/\">California Rural Legal Assistance<\/a> (who serves cities too!) has been very helpful to some of FIRM&#8217;s clients in resolving matters involving tenants&#8217; rights, sub-standard housing, lockouts and utility shut-offs by landlords, rent deposit refunds and evictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tenants Together<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tenantstogether.org\/\">Tenants Together<\/a> is a California state-wide nonprofit organization dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of California tenants to safe, decent and affordable housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees who have very few resources often rent apartments or homes.&nbsp; Occasionally, an unscrupulous landlord has tried to take advantage of their tenants, exploiting refugees&#8217; limited English, cultural differences or fears about being deported. Central California Legal Services (CCLS) Central California Legal Services (CCLS) is a strong community partner as a resource for legal assistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firminc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firminc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firminc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firminc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firminc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firminc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firminc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}