Offers free half-hour consultations with attorneys on legal issues such as landlord tenant disputes, labor and employment issues, disabilities, civil rights, immigration, and discrimination among others.

Provides a program designed to help homeowners remain in their homes by preventing and/or delaying foreclosure. Cases covered include mortgage foreclosure, tax foreclosures, and tenants being evicted due to foreclosure.

Offers financial assistance in addition to locating affordable housing. Provides rental deposit assistance, landlord/tenant mediation, short term rental assistance and budget planning.

Assists in landlord/tenant issues and is active in rural, homeless prevention and assistance in affordable housing for working families.

* The attorneys and advocates of the Housing and Consumer Law Unit at the Legal Aid Society of Rochester assist clients with a variety of legal matters, including: Bankruptcy. Consumer Credit. Deeds in Lieu of Foreclosure. Eviction prevention. Foreclosure Prevention. Loan modifications. Real Estate Transactions. Advanced Directives (Power of Attorney, Healthcare Proxy).

Provides free legal counseling and representation for low-income individuals who need assistance in civil cases including government benefits, senior legal services, federal tax issue, unemployment insurance, disability, housing landlord/tenant, family law matters, and consumers issues.

Provides a hotline available for fraud reporting, for consumers, insurance, medicaid, landord/tenant issues, etc. Also offers a "Tenants Rights Guide" with information about leases, safety, repairs, and rights available to both tenants and landlords.

Reviews and mediates complaints from individual consumers. Also provides information to consumers and seeks to ensure a fair and vigorous market place. The Bureau also drafts legislation and conducts studies and writes reports on emerging consumer problems and issues.

* Provides overnight accommodations in shelter apartments for homeless families. Case Manager works remotely and in person with families to provide casework assistance, job search, and enrollment in community programs.Eviction prevention services. Limited transportation provided to appointments.

Reviews and mediates complaints from individual consumers. Also provides information to consumers and seeks to ensure a fair and vigorous market place. The Bureau also drafts legislation and conducts studies and writes reports on emerging consumer problems and issues.

Provides intensive case management for tenants at risk of eviction by assisting with administrative and/or judicial responses to local court actions, mediate between landlords and tenants, help prepare repayment plans, assist in identifying and collecting resources (financial and other), and prepare meritorious defense.

Eviction Assistance: Provides help to low income who are qualified for subsidized housing and section 8 choice vouchers. For those who may not be qualified for subsidized/section 8, provide older adults, veterans, domestic violence, LGBQT, breast cancer, or individuals diagnosed with AIDS who may be a target for eviction. Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution: Aids individuals struggling with their landlord for reasons ranging from eviction, living conditions, recurring problems, etc. Foreclosure Assistance: helps advocate for individuals with mortgage foreclosure with guidance through the legal process and representation, if needed.

A certified Hud-housing agency that provides tenant assistance, eviction prevention, home ownership counseling, landlord-tenant mediation, foreclosure counseling, first time home buyer counseling, reverse mortgage counseling, and housing court assistance. A loan/grant program is in place to assist with home improvement, weatherization and applications for funding for other housing-related services.

Provides assistance for individuals and families with rent difficulties, including one-time back rent assistance, landlord-tenant mediation, section 8 applications, and relocation assistance, including referrals to other needed services.

The Hudson Valley Justice Center offers direct representation and advice to low income residents of the Hudson Valley. The office focuses on the following areas of law: Eviction defense and other landlord-tenant disputes, domestic violence, Benefits hearings for eligible citizens, Immigration, Family Law Matters.

Provides a service, in collaboration with 2 other agencies (My Sisters' Place and Westchester Hispanic Coalition) to offer free legal services for poverty level residents or those who are victims of domestic violence for consumer disputes, housing, education, benefits, domestic violence, orders of protection, custody, child support, family law, including citizenship applications, work authorizations or other immigration issues.

Provides assistance to working individuals and families to prevent eviction or foreclosure as well as assistance for homeless individuals and families to obtain permanent housing after all other community resources have been utilized.

Provides information and refers individuals having problems with landlords, and apartment issues by either investigating the problem and gathering information or refers to agencies who specialize in the specific issue.

Legal Services of the Hudson Valley provides walk-in service at any of the offices. If you have a warrant of eviction from a marshal or a sheriff, have been denied emergency food stamps by the local Department of Social Services, or have a notice of utility cut-off, you may you may walk into any of the offices.

Provides mediation and arbitration services for community, parent/child, divorce, custody and visitation, and juvenile issues. Mediators are trained volunteers.

Provides information and referrals for individuals needing help with find affordable housing, eviction assistance, and other housing-related issues.

Reviews and mediates complaints from individual consumers. Also provides information to consumers and seeks to ensure a fair and vigorous market place. The Bureau also drafts legislation and conducts studies and writes reports on emerging consumer problems and issues.

Provides families with referrals and services to prevent eviction, and have been denied services by DSS.

The Hudson Valley Justice Center offers direct representation and advice to low income residents of the Hudson Valley. The office focuses on the following areas of law: Eviction defense and other landlord-tenant disputes, domestic violence, Benefits hearings for eligible citizens, Immigration, Family Law Matters.

Provides prepurchase/first time homebuyers counseling, default delinquency counseling, budget counseling, housing assistance (Section 8 eligible), landlord/tenant assistance, reverse mortgage counseling (senior program) and referrals to other housing and non-housing agencies.