and litigate meritorious claims under the law. Additional target counties may be added as the project progresses. Contact info: (510) 271-8443 Website: Inland Empire Latino Lawyers Association ($35,000) Counties: Riverside and San Bernardino. Languages/Populations: Monolingual Spanish speakers, low income and illiterate. Project Description: This project will assist tenants of foreclosed properties in unlawful detainer actions and actions brought in small claims court involving the return of tenants’ security deposits and other issues. Contact info: 951-369-3009 Website: Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board ($850,000) Sub-Recipients: Inland Counties Legal Services and Fair Housing Council of Riverside County. Counties: San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial. Languages/Populations: Spanish speaking, low income, rural desert populations, disabled, Native Americans and veterans. Project Description: This project will introduce a new, comprehensive education program called PATHS to provide a personalized, “whole family” approach to housing stabilization and wealth building. The program will implement a tri-county partnership of organizations and focus on underserved populations in this hard-hit region of California. Contact info: 1-800-321-0911 Website: Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara ($450,000) Sub-Recipient: SurePath Financial Solutions County: Santa Barbara Languages/Populations: Focus on Santa Maria and Lompoc, which have the highest rates of notices of default and sale, and areas of high unemployment. Language services will be available in English and Spanish.
Project Description: This project will implement a new partnership to provide a broad spectrum of legal and financial services to distressed homeowners including legal intervention, loan modification, bankruptcy filing and housing counseling. Where foreclosure cannot be avoided, the project will assist homeowners and tenants through eviction defense, re-location, financial education, credit repair, and referrals for counseling and educational resources. Additionally, the project will provide education and outreach to underserved communities to inform them of community resources and their rights under the California Homeowner Bill of Rights. Contact: 805-963-6754 or Website: Legal Services of Northern California ($725,000) Sub-Recipient: Housing and Economic Rights Advocates Counties: Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sierra, Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Plumas, Tehama, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Trinity, Mendocino, Lake, Solano County, Yolo and Sacramento. Languages/Populations: Low-income, geographically isolated, limited English proficiency, seniors and persons with disabilities. Project Description: This project will provide a variety of services to some of the most vulnerable current and former homeowners and renters, including people who are low-income, geographically isolated, limited-English proficient, senior and disabled. The focus will be to reduce and/or remedy the devastating effects of home loss, as well as to eliminate barriers to economic security in 23 mostly rural Northern California counties. Contact: (916) 551-2150 Website: Mission Economic Development Agency ($550,000) Sub-Recipients: Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, East Los Angeles Community Corporation and Neighborhood Housing Services of the Inland Empire. Counties: Bay Area (San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, and Contra Costa), Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside. Languages/Populations: Latino and Spanish speaking. Project Description: This project will provide outreach, homeownership counseling, foreclosure intervention, financial education and supportive services to low/moderate-income Latino families in Northern and Southern California. The innovative “housing+” strategy will include: integrated bilingual services for prospective and at-risk homeowners; capacity building, training and shared