Questions and answers about common legal problems.
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Financing Your Home: Your Fair Housing Rights
Federal laws that protect you from illegal discrimination when you finance your home. What to do if you think there has been illegal discrimination.
By: Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, Inc. (FHAC)
Purchasing Your Home: Your Fair Housing Rights
Learn about the laws protecting you from illegal discrimination when you buy a home.
By: Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, Inc. (FHAC)
Home Loan Scams: Borrower Beware
What you need to know to avoid bad loan deals or "predatory loans"
By: Elder Law Task Force & New Orleans Legal Assistance
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Hiring a Home Repair Contractor
Tips on how to hire a home repair contractor
By: New Orleans Legal Assistance
Insuring Your Home: Your Fair Housing Rights
Learn about the federal laws protecting you from illegal discrimination in home insurance.
By: Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, Inc. (FHAC)
Anti-Discrimination Housing Laws
(Separate Website)
Information about The Fair Housing Act and other federal laws and executive orders that protect you from housing discrimination, including discrimination in home financing.
By: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Avoid Predatory Lending Tips for spotting a bad home loan, or a predatory lender.
By: New Orleans Legal Assistance
Avoiding Foreclosure
(Separate Website)
See this fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, with information about what you may be able to do to avoid foreclosure.
By: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Don't Lose Your Home to a Crooked Mortgage Company Take a look at these tips for avoiding a home loan that may be a bad deal for you.
By: New Orleans Legal Assistance
Gustav -- Important Information about Home, Auto and some other Foreclosures!
Information about Gov. Jindal's executive order suspending legal deadlines and sheriff's sales of homes, cars, and certain other things.
By: New Orleans Legal Assistance
Housing Justice Network
(Separate Website)
HJN focuses on public and subsidized housing, Section 8 assistance, single family housing foreclosures, fair housing, CDBG and HOME programs, the housing programs of the Rural Housing Service, and more
By: National Housing Law Project
Practical Advice on Housing Law
(Separate Website)
This ABA webpage offers "Practical Law" information on different legal problems, including housing problems such as buying, selling or renting.
By: American Bar Association
The Road Home Program
(Separate Website)
State website offers homeowners and rental property owners details about the program and tools and resources.
By: Road2la.org
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