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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.
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.
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Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Representation
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Divorce Assistance
Consumer Law
Helps form and support tenant organizations, develop tenant leaders, and assist in bringing health and safety improvements to the properties they call home.
Helps form and support tenant organizations, develop tenant leaders, and assist in bringing health and safety improvements to the properties they call home.
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Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Housing Complaints
Provides 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 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.
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Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Offers 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.
Offers 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.
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Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Provides various housing services for tenants residing in Hoboken. Services include: information on rent control, legal base rent, and rent increases; information on annual cost of living adjustments, tax surcharges, water/sewage surcharges, and capital improvement surcharges; hardship increases; vacancy decontrol; and annual housing registration requirements.
Provides various housing services for tenants residing in Hoboken. Services include: information on rent control, legal base rent, and rent increases; information on annual cost of living adjustments, tax surcharges, water/sewage surcharges, and capital improvement surcharges; hardship increases; vacancy decontrol; and annual housing registration requirements.
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Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Housing Complaints
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.
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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Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Landlord Rights Information/Counseling
Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Housing Complaints
Provides assistance to individuals unable to make mortgage payments, at risk of foreclosure, or already in the foreclosure process. Services are provided through counseling on how to have discussions with a landlord regarding rental situations.
Provides assistance to individuals unable to make mortgage payments, at risk of foreclosure, or already in the foreclosure process. Services are provided through counseling on how to have discussions with a landlord regarding rental situations.
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Foreclosure Prevention Loan Modification/Refinancing Programs
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
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 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.
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Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Landlord Rights Information/Counseling
Discrimination Assistance
Housing Complaints
Provides telephone counseling and training for landlords and tenants in reference to New Jersey housing laws. Clients are assisted with problems relating to eviction, security, maintenance, leases, etc.
Provides telephone counseling and training for landlords and tenants in reference to New Jersey housing laws. Clients are assisted with problems relating to eviction, security, maintenance, leases, etc.
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Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Landlord Rights Information/Counseling
Provides a service available to people who are unable to make their mortgage payments and are 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 a service available to people who are unable to make their mortgage payments and are 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.
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Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Provides housing services including homebuyer education and counseling, fair housing counseling, mortgage assistance, foreclosure mediation, and mortgage counseling.
Provides housing services including homebuyer education and counseling, fair housing counseling, mortgage assistance, foreclosure mediation, and mortgage counseling.
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Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Homebuyer/Home Purchase Counseling
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Provides housing counseling services that include, advocates for affordable housing policy issues, first time home buyer training and assistance, foreclosure counseling, housing information and referral, housing purchase training (post purchase budgeting and assistance with applications), rental counseling (guide renters on how to approach discussions with their landlords on dealing with their rent situation).
Provides housing counseling services that include, advocates for affordable housing policy issues, first time home buyer training and assistance, foreclosure counseling, housing information and referral, housing purchase training (post purchase budgeting and assistance with applications), rental counseling (guide renters on how to approach discussions with their landlords on dealing with their rent situation).
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Homebuyer/Home Purchase Counseling
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
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.
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 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 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.
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Tenant Rights Information/Counseling
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
