Resources for Individuals
Find an Attorney/Learn about Legal Resources
- find a legal aid office
- find a private attorney
- PA Law Help: online guide to legal information and legal services in Pennsylvania
Locate Affordable Rental Housing/Understand Tenant Rights
- Subsidized Apartment Search (HUD)
- Affordable Housing Locator (Pennsylvania only, through PHFA)
- Bureau of Consumer Protection, PA Attorney General’s Office: leases and security deposits including considerations before renting, what a lease should contain, advice to renters, security deposit tips, and links to the Landlord Tenant Act
- Tenant Union Representative Network – (TURN) (Philadelphia only)
- National Low Income Housing Coalition
Utility Issues
- access utility resources
Avoid Foreclosure/Homeownership Preservation
- Reverse Mortgages for Seniors: including a description of and requirements for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgages
- Predatory Lending: including tips for being a smart consumer
Manufactured Housing
- learn about rights and opportunities for manufactured housing community residents
Resources for Community-Based Organizations
Resources for Advocates & Policy Partners
- Housing Law Project
- transit-oriented development
- weatherization for affordable multi-family properties
- “National HEMAP“
- learn more about our public policy work
- additional resources
Resources for Funders
- Information about our funding
- Audited financial statements
- “Philanthropy Must Turn More Attention to Housing Issues,” The Chronicle of Philanthropy,
February 12, 2009 - Contribution of housing to health and education outcomes
- “Pennsylvania’s Lowest-Income Renters Have the Greatest Needs,” Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia,Cascade: No. 73, Winter 2010
