Provides Community Support Services (CSS) to assist individuals with mental illnesses manage symptoms and maintain roles in employment, education, housing, and social settings.

Provides information on housing. This includes discrimination in housing, tenant-landlord disputes, tenant-landlord rights, and Section 8 regulations to all residents of the coverage area.

Provides assistance with cases involving governmental benefits and entitlement. This includes landlord/tenant relationships, protective services and pensions at no cost to senior and disabled individuals.

Helps form and support tenant organizations, develop tenant leaders, and assist in bringing health and safety improvements to the properties they call home.

Advocates for low-income clients, the Civil Justice Clinic addresses various civil cases, focusing on housing, family, consumer law, probate, bankruptcy, unemployment compensation, social security, SSI disability benefits, and other public benefits. Under faculty supervision, students actively engage in cases such as defending eviction actions, assisting tenants with repairs, litigating to recover security deposits, opposing illegal rent increases, and handling cases related to real estate, home repair, car repair, or purchase scams, divorce, custody, alimony, domestic violence, child support, and social security disability. Students undertake the entire legal process, including client interviews, negotiations, drafting legal documents, and conducting depositions and trials. Additionally, the clinic periodically undertakes broader law reform and impact advocacy initiatives on systemic issues within civil poverty law.

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.

Assists low- and moderate-income individuals with guidance and case services in Landlord-Tenant Law matters. Counsels clients involved in disputes, informing them of their rights and responsibilities under New Jersey laws, local ordinances, and property codes. Provides budgeting, HUD-certified housing counseling, information and referral, rental delinquency counseling, advocacy with landlords/mortgage companies, legal services referrals, and assistance in obtaining affordable housing.

Allows tenants in Paterson to check if their apartment or unit is protected or rent controlled. Also helps tenants with obtaining protections if their unit is not currently protected. Work is done discreetly so as not to cause issues with landlords.

Provides housing counseling to people who are unable to make their mortgage payments and at risk of losing their homes through foreclosure, or who are already in the foreclosure process. Counseling is also made available to renters that will guide them on how to approach discussions with their landlords on dealing with their rent situation.

Provides free legal assistance to New Jersey tenants who are facing eviction. Services are available to those who are renters and owe a landlord.

Provides a variety of legal services that include: immigration, legal education, landlord/tenant matters, domestic relations, and entitlement advocacy.

Provides Community Support Services (CSS) to assist individuals with mental illnesses manage symptoms and maintain roles in employment, education, housing, and social settings.