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Enables individuals to file an online complaint about housing discrimination, covering various processes such as apartment rental, home buying, and mortgages. Staff review submitted complaints to determine jurisdiction under civil rights laws, contacting clients for further details or to aid in filing an official discrimination complaint.
Serves the interests of tenants, landlords, and the city by ensuring all housing standards and pricing are met in the community. The division accepts complaints in writing about unfair rent increases, and maintenance in services.

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Landlord Rights Information/Counseling
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Housing Complaints
Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.

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Welfare Rights Assistance
General Legal Aid
Labor and Employment Law
Elder Law
Legal Representation
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Divorce Assistance
Housing Complaints
Workers Compensation Benefits Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
Bankruptcy Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Individual Advocacy
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Provides placement assistance and services to residents of rooming and boarding homes. Services include investigation of complaints regarding boarding homes and residential health care facilities.

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Nursing Facility Complaints
Rooming/Boarding Houses
Housing Complaints
Investigates complaints regarding boarding homes and residential health care facilities.

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Housing Complaints
Rooming/Boarding Houses
Nursing Facility Complaints
Provides placement assistance and services to residents of rooming and boarding homes. Services include investigation of complaints regarding boarding homes and residential health care facilities.

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Rooming/Boarding Houses
Nursing Facility Complaints
Housing Complaints
Investigates complaints regarding boarding homes and residential health care facilities.

Categories

Nursing Facility Complaints
Rooming/Boarding Houses
Housing Complaints
Provides placement assistance and services to residents of rooming and boarding homes. Services include investigation of complaints regarding boarding homes and residential health care facilities.ces.

Categories

Rooming/Boarding Houses
Housing Complaints
Nursing Facility Complaints
Provides information on housing, including discrimination in housing, tenant-landlord disputes, tenant-landlord rights, and Section 8 regulations to all residents of the coverage area.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Landlord Rights Information/Counseling
Housing Complaints
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Discrimination Assistance
Provides placement assistance and services to residents of rooming and boarding homes. Services include investigation of complaints regarding boarding homes and residential health care facilities.

Categories

Nursing Facility Complaints
Housing Complaints
Rooming/Boarding Houses
Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.

Categories

Welfare Rights Assistance
General Legal Aid
Labor and Employment Law
Elder Law
Legal Representation
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Divorce Assistance
Housing Complaints
Workers Compensation Benefits Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
Bankruptcy Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Individual Advocacy
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Enables victims of housing discrimination to file a complaint through the Fair Housing Council of Northern New Jersey. Legal assistance may be available through the agency in following up with a fair housing complaint.
Provides assistance to tenants who live in privately subsidized buildings regarding tenants rights.

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Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Housing Complaints
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Enforces Chapter 254 (Jersey City Property Maintenance Code), responds to tenant complaints, conducts annual field inspections, offers referral services for property owners requiring financial aid, performs heat and hot water inspections, maintains a 24-hour emergency heat & hot water hotline, and enforces the Vacant Buildings Registration Code.

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Utility Disconnection Protection
Housing Complaints
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Provides placement assistance and services to residents of rooming and boarding homes. Services include investigation of complaints regarding boarding homes and residential health care facilities.

Categories

Rooming/Boarding Houses
Nursing Facility Complaints
Housing Complaints
Operates a 24-hour emergency "Hot Line" for residents to report complaints regarding no heat, no hot water, or other winter related emergencies.
Handles "no heat" complaints. Under the New Jersey state housing codes, from October 1 - May 1 yearly, landlords must provide enough heat so that the temperature in the apartment is at least 65 degrees from 6:00 pm - 11:00 am and 68 degrees at all other times.
Provides assistance on a wide variety of housing issues for Hoboken renters, including:- Which apartments are subject to local rent control laws- What is the legal base rent- What rent increases the law permits- Annual cost of living adjustments- Tax surcharges- Water/sewer surcharges- Capital improvement surcharges- Hardship increases- Vacancy decontrol- Annual registration requirements
Provides placement assistance and services to residents of rooming and boarding homes. Services include investigation of complaints regarding boarding homes and residential health care facilities.
Provides services to residents of rooming and boarding homes. Services include investigation of complaints regarding boarding homes and residential health care facilities, providing social service information, and providing alternative housing information if needed.

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Housing Complaints
Rooming/Boarding Houses
Nursing Facility Complaints
Investigates complaints regarding boarding homes and residential health care facilities.

Categories

Nursing Facility Complaints
Rooming/Boarding Houses
Housing Complaints
Landlords must provide heat as required by the state codes and the local town or city ordinance. Under the New Jersey state housing codes, from October 1 - May 1 yearly, the landlord must provide enough heat so that the temperature in the apartment is at least 65 degrees from 6:00pm - 11:00pm and 68 degrees at all other times.
Receives and processes complaints from any citizen, whether a property owner, tenant or neighbor. Provides solutions to property maintenance concerns about residential, commercial, vacant and abandoned properties.
Provides placement assistance and services to residents of rooming and boarding homes. Services include investigation of complaints regarding boarding homes and residential health care facilities.

Categories

Rooming/Boarding Houses
Nursing Facility Complaints
Housing Complaints
Provides free legal services and legal counseling to low-income individuals. Assists with consumer rights and debt cancellation, domestic violence and sexual assault, education, elder justice, expungements (Clearing Your Record), family and relationships, federal taxes, HIV/AIDS (rya white project), housing, immigration, public benefits, seniors, and veterans.

Categories

Welfare Rights Assistance
General Legal Aid
Labor and Employment Law
Elder Law
Legal Representation
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Divorce Assistance
Housing Complaints
Workers Compensation Benefits Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Criminal Record Expungement Assistance
Bankruptcy Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Individual Advocacy
Eviction Prevention Assistance