LA Law Library Resources:
Community Connections: Meet with our Community Resource Specialist to learn about available resources in your area and access services, benefits, and support. Make an appointment today.
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Lawyers in the Library: This program provides free 20-30 minute consultations with volunteer lawyers for people who have legal problems to discuss but do not have a lawyer representing them. Consultations may be either in person or by telephone depending on the patron’s preference and the availability of lawyers with expertise on the requested topic.
Housing & Homelessness: Programs and services to help those who own or rent property, unhoused persons or those at risk of homelessness
Homeless Assistance: Programs and services to help unhoused persons or those at risk of experiencing homelessness.
- LA County Department of Public Social Services Homeless Services: https://dpss.lacounty.gov/en/homeless.html
- Public Counsel, Lawyers Preventing and Ending Homelessness: https://publiccounsel.org/services/housing-and-homelessness/
- Safe Parking LA: https://www.safeparkingla.org/
Shelters: Service agencies that provide temporary residence, food, healthcare, or other support service for people experiencing homelessness.
- Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Winter Shelter Program Information: https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=5704-winter-shelter-list-english-nov-2021.pdf
- PATH: https://www.epath.org/
- Los Angeles County Homeless Access Centers Directory: https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=2760-ces-access-point-directory.pdf
- Los Angeles County Health Services Guide to Shelter & Housing Assistance: https://pubdef.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/LADHS_Shelter-Housing-Brochure_121119_FINAL.pdf
- Los Angeles Mission: https://losangelesmission.org/emergency-services/
- Midnight Mission: https://www.midnightmission.org/our-services/emergency-services/
- Union Rescue Mission: https://urm.org/services/emergency/
Housing & Landlord/Tenant: The rights and obligations of those who own property occupied by others and those who rent or lease property; can be residential or for business.
- Assembly Bill (AB) 3088: Tenancy: rental payment default: mortgage forbearance: state of emergency: COVID-19: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3088
- Assembly Bill (AB) 832: COVID-19 relief: tenancy: federal rental assistance: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB832
- Housing Insecurity | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/housing/housing-insecurity/
- Department of Justice, Working with DOJ to Stop Sexual Harassment in Housing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=vhskfe_7DHc&feature=emb_logo
- Department of Consumer & Business Affairs, Housing and Tenant Protections: https://dcba.lacounty.gov/rentstabilization/
- Housing is Key: Resources for Renters, Landlords and Homeowners: https://housing.ca.gov/
- Housing Rights Center: https://www.housingrightscenter.org/
- Landlord: LA Superior Court: Evictions (Unlawful Detainers): https://selfhelp.lacourt.org/search-results/C03/Topic031
- LA Law Library, Ask a Lawyer: Renting During COVID: LIVE ZOOM: Ask a Lawyer: Landlord-Tenant Law and Evictions
- LA Law Library Online Classes, For more landlord/tenant topics, click here:https://www.lalawlibrary.org/onlineclasses/landlord-tenant-law
- LA Law Library Online Class, Housing Protections for Women and Victims of Domestic Violence: https://www.lalawlibrary.org/hidden-classes/1547-housing-protections-for-women-and-victims-of-domestic-violence-online
- LA Law Library Online Class, Landlord/Tenant: Where You Begin: https://www.lalawlibrary.org/hidden-classes/1519-landlord-tenant-where-you-begin-online
- National Fair Housing Alliance, COVID-19 Resource Center: https://nationalfairhousing.org/covid-19/
- National Housing Law Project, Protecting Renter and Homeowner Rights During Our National Health Crisis: https://www.nhlp.org/campaign/protecting-renter-and-homeowner-rights-during-our-national-health-crisis-2/
- Senate Bill 91: COVID-19 relief: tenancy: federal rental assistance: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB91
- Tenants: LA Superior Court: Evictions (Unlawful Detainers): https://selfhelp.lacourt.org/search-results/C03/Topic032
- LIVE ZOOM: Ask a Lawyer: Landlord-Tenant Law and Evictions from LA Law Library, Ask a Lawyer: Renting During COVID: https://www.lalawlibrary.org/ask-a-lawyer
Tenant Protections: Tenants’ rent payment is temporarily delayed; courts’ temporarily suspension of eviction proceedings due to non-payment of rent.
- BASTA: https://www.basta.org/
- Bet Tzedek Legal Services: Legal Support for West Hollywood Tenants: https://bettzedek.org/
- California Tenants, A Guide to Residential Tenants' and Landlords' Rights and Responsibilities: https://landlordtenant.dre.ca.gov/resources/guidebook/index.html
- TENANTS' RIGHTS CLINIC | CES In Action https://www.cesinaction.org/tenants-rights-clinic
- COVID-19 Restrictions guide (2023): https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-county-city-eviction-guide?utm_campaign=20230125+LAist+How+To+LA&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc_&utm_content=&utm_term=121045316
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Complaint Database for Renters: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/?pid=A
- LA Court, Eviction (Unlawful Detainers) Self-Help Resource: https://selfhelp.lacourt.org/service-catalog/C03
- LA Court’s Online Dispute Resolution, Unlawful Detainer (Eviction) https://my.lacourt.org/odr/unlawful-detainers
- Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) Eviction Defense: https://lafla.org/get-help/housing-and-eviction/
- Los Angeles Tenants Union: https://latenantsunion.org/en/
- Los Angeles County Department of Consumer & Business Affairs : COVID-19 Tenant Protections (Acerca de la Moratoria de Desalojo Temporal del Condado de Los Ángeles): https://dcba.lacounty.gov/noevictions/
- LA Law Library, Online Class, Housing Rights of Tenants With Mental Health Disabilities: https://www.lalawlibrary.org/hidden-classes/1584-housing-rights-pbw2020
- LA Law Library, Online Class, Section 8 & Subsidized Housing: ON DEMAND: Section 8 & Subsidized Housing,
- LA Law Library, Online Class, What HUD Can Do For You: https://www.lalawlibrary.org/hidden-classes/1593-hud-pbw2020
- Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) Self-Help How To Guides: https://lafla.org/self-help/self-help-how-to-guides/
- Stay Housed L.A. County Promoting Tenants’ Rights: https://www.stayhousedla.org/
- Tenants: LA Superior Court: Evictions (Unlawful Detainers): https://selfhelp.lacourt.org/search-results/C03/Topic032
- Tenant Power Tool Kit: https://tenantpowertoolkit.org/
- Tenants Together: https://www.tenantstogether.org/
Real Estate: Rights of those who own homes, land, buildings, natural resources, etc.
- California Department of Real Estate: (https://www.dre.ca.gov/)
Foreclosure: Lender legally imposing sale of mortgaged property to recover real estate loan balance from borrower unable to pay.
- California Department of Business Oversight: https://dbo.ca.gov/covid19-updates-fi/
- California Department of Financial Protection and In novation (DFPI) - The Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (https://dfpi.ca.gov/ )
Mediation:
- Los Angeles City Attorneys Office-Dispute Resolution Program: Dispute Resolution Program ("DRP") | City Attorney
Mortgage Payments: Borrower’s regularly scheduled payments of a real property loan’s principal and interest amounts to a lender.
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Start a Complaint: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/getting-started/