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Tenant & Homeownership Resources
tenant's rights
If you are looking for an overview of tenant's rights in NYC, check out the Office
of the Attorney General Tenant's Rights guide, a well organized
site explaining the rights and responsibilities of tenants.
In addition, the New
York City Rent Guidelines Board Tenant's Rights Guide offers similarly decent information, but was compiled back in 1999.
For tenant information related directly to DHCR (like rent increases), check out the NYC
RGB factsheet.
The Tenants and Neighbors
Resource Guide has useful information and resources on everything from rent control & rent stabilization to Project-Based Section 8 (HUD) buildings to starting a tenant association.
Housing Court/Eviction Information and Assistance
Lawhelp.org
on Housing is a large, comprehensive legal site with listings of
legal services, factsheets on housing issues, help on court processes,
and links to other resources. En
Español.
Housing
for people living with HIV/AIDS is a list of resources for those
living with HIV-AIDS, particularly focusing on legal and eviction
prevention services.
If you are facing eviction, you can also check out the City-Wide Task Force
on House Court General Factsheets on the housing court processes.
Homeowner Resources
The NEDAP
Homeowner's guide includes helpful information
on housing for seniors, predatory lending, and deed theft.
HUD's
guide to legal aid for housing issues includes resources on predatory
lending and foreclosue.
Lawhelp.org
on Housing offers information on groups offering legal assistance to homeowners in foreclosure.
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Welfare
and Social Services
Do you qualify for benefits?
Community
Service Society Benefits Tool is a well organized site with forms and
explanations of all social services.
Using ACCESS NYC, you can screen your family for up to 35 City, State, and Federal health and human service benefit programs. In addition to screening, you can learn about the programs, how to apply, where to go, and even print filled in applications.
The Social Security Online site allows
you to apply for and calculate your benefits.
General Information
New
York City Government Resident Resources Guide is a general city guide on a number of topics for residents including information on health and human services. Specific topics include public assistance, support programs, disabilities, and documents and records. The column on the left offers more options and links.
Lawhelp.org
on Public Benefits is a large comprehensive legal site with listings of legal services and factsheets on public benefits isssues, such as welfare, food stamps, social security, medicare/medicaid, Jiggetts, and childcare (en Español). Also, check out their section on Health Services for help on healthcare issues (en
Español).
The Fortune Society is a New York
City non-profit organization that offers prisoner re-entry services.
Guidebooks on the Welfare System
Guide
on "Welfare to Work" is a guide specifically for women
dealing with domestic violence and its affect on the welfare process.
Parent's
Survival Guide to NYC Child Welfare System is an in depth guide to the
NYC Child Welfare System and the Administration for Children's Services.
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Immigration
The New York Immigration
Coalition --> The menu on the right hand sidebar is well organized into different
areas of concern for immigrants. They include many useful resources
and guides on issues like immigration law, health access, housing,
visa applications, public benefits, and education. Information is available
in multiple languages.
Lawhelp.org
on Immigration --> A large, comprehensive legal site with listings
of lawyers, factsheets on issues facing immigrants, help on court
processes, and links to other resources (en
Español).
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Tax, Credit, and Financial Resources
Tax Preparation Assistance
The New York Public Library has a list of sites around
New York for free tax preparation and assistanace.
New York
State and New
Jersy State tax websites with printable tax forms and instructions.
The IRS
website with many forms and guidelines.
Lawhelp.org
on Taxes is a large, comprehensive legal site with listings of legal
services, factsheets on personal tax issues, help on court processes,
and links to other resources (en
Español).
Credit and Debt Resources
Annual Credit
Report is the only federally certified website for getting you credit
report free. You are allowed one free credit report from each of the
three credit reporting companies per year.
NEDAP's Resources
for Consumers has a number of resources, including information and
forms on dealing with credit reports, debt collection, identity theft,
and Electronic Benefits Transfer (en
Espanol).
Lawhelp.org
also has a section on consumer
issues, including debt collection, credit and identity theft, home
loan problems, and student loans (en
Español).
Financial Education
smartaboutmoney.org is a great site run by the national endowment for financial education. they offer great resources from a wide variety of organizations (usually PDFs of guides) on credit and debt, savings, retirement, investing, and financial planning.
mymoney.gov is the federal government's site on financial education. topics the site covers include Budgeting & Taxes, Credit, Financial Planning, Home Ownership, Fraud & Scams, Retirement Planning, Saving & Investing, and Starting a Small Business
The federal reserve runs an educational website that has links on a number of topics including consumer banking, loans and credit, and consumer protection.
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