Consumer Services Guide (CSG)

Housing Information Edition

The Consumer Services Guide is searchable directory of resources which can help you with consumer problems and questions. There are multiple editions of the 'Guide', some which deal with specific issues such as housing or credit. The full directory, the Consumer Service Guide Edition, provides access to all the resources collected by Consumer Action.

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• Calaveras County Housing Repair Program
  Calaveras County can assist low income individuals with low-interest loans, deferred loans, or other types of loans depending on your income level and need. You may qualify for a home repair loan even if you have been turned down by other lenders.
  
  
• California - Business, Transportation & Housing Agency
  This site provides information and links to the 13 departments that this agency oversees, which include the Department of Financial Institutions, the Department of Corporations, the Department of Real Estate, the California Housing Finance Agency, and the Department of Housing and Community Development.
  
  
• California - Department of Consumer Affairs
  The Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) protects and serves California consumers while ensuring a competent and fair marketplace. DCA helps consumers learn how to protect themselves from unscrupulous and unqualified individuals. The Department also protects professionals from unfair competition by unlicensed practitioners.
  
  
• California - Department of Corporations
  The Department of Corporations licenses and regulates a variety of businesses that affect your life, including securities brokers and dealers, investment advisers and financial planners, and certain fiduciaries and lenders. They also regulate the offer and sale of securities, franchises and off-exchange commodities.
  
  
• California - Department of Financial Institutions (DFI)
  The State Departments of Banking regulate and supervise state-chartered banks. Many of them handle or refer problems and complaints about other types of financial institutions as well. Some also answer general questions about banking and consumer credit.
  
  
• California - Department of Insurance
  The Consumer Services Division is responsible for gathering and responding to consumer inquiries regarding insurance company or producer activities.
  
  
• California - Department of Real Estate
  Handles unfair, misleading or fraudulent treatment by a licensee in real estate transactions. Call for complaint form. State your specific complaint, list witnesses and include copies of all documents.
  
  
• California - Housing Finance Agency (CHFA)
  CHFA finances below-market-rate loans to affordable rental housing and assists first-time home buyers.
  
  
• California - Office of Real Estate Appraisers (OREA)
  OREA licenses real estate appraisers and ensures that appraisers obey national and California standards and law. This agency also investigates complaints against appraisers. Site features consumer information, as well as license verification of appraisers.
  
  
• California Center for Law and the Deaf
  Provides legal advice and assistance for deaf and hearing-impaired clients in areas of discrimination, accessibility and accommodations. Areas include the workplace, public facilities, special education, media, emergency information and telecommunications access. Handles individual and class action suits. The California Center for Law and the Deaf (CalCLAD), established in December, 1978, is committed to the protection and advancement of the legal rights of deaf and hard-of-hearing…
  
  
• California Community Dispute Services (CaCDS)
  CaCDS is an independent, non-profit organization that strives to reduce community disorder and individual conflict arising from minor misdemeanor crimes, civil complaints and civil suits. We make a positive impact on the justice system by relieving the system of the types of cases it was not designed to handle and by helping to reduce the excessive workload that strains justice systems resources. CaCDS also performs…
  
  
• California Department of Community Services and Development (CSD)
  Community Services & Development (CSD) is a state department of the California Health and Human Services Agency. CSD administers federal programs to help low-income families achieve and maintain self-sufficiency, meet their home energy needs, and reside in housing free from the dangers of lead hazards. In addition, CSD administers a state-funded Naturalization Services Program that assists legal permanent residents to obtain citizenship. CSD works with…
  
  
• California Foundation for Independent Living Centers (CFILC)
  This foundation helps independent living centers promote themselves to disabled consumers. The website has vast list of web Independent Living resources and current job opportunities with contact information for people with disabilities.
  
  
• California Franchise Tax Board
  

  This agency is responsible for administering two of California's major tax programs: Personal Income Tax and the Corporation Tax. They also have responsibility for administering the Homeowner and Renter Assistance (HRA) program, and other non-tax programs and delinquent debt collection functions, including child support debt collections and delinquent vehicle registration debt collections on behalf of the Department of Motor Vehicles.

  Nonrefundable Renter's Credit is a…
  
  

• California Human Development Corporation (CHDC)

  CHDC is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) and provide human services in northern California. Their purpose is to help low-income people secure the education, training, job opportunities and improved social conditions they need to live with independence and greater human dignity.
  
  
• California Online Directory
  The California Online Directory is a service provided by the Department of Technology Services, Statewide Telecommunications and Network Division. The Online Directory is designed to improve access to government information and services for state employees, local government and the general public. The directory services include state employee information, state agency information, and a State Government Organization Chart, as well as a keyword search. You can…
  
  
• California State Department of Fair Employment and Housing
  The Mission of the Department of Fair Employment and Housing is to protect the people of California from unlawful discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations, and from the perpetration of acts of hate violence. DFEH receives and investigates discrimination complaints in its twelve district offices throughout the State. Ten offices handle employment, public accommodations and hate violence cases and two offices handle housing cases.…
  
  
• California- Insurance Regulator
  Contact about complaints or questions concerning the insurance industry, including brokers and agents. Free rate surveys available to the public. (Also send copies of written complaints about insurance rates to the Attorney General's office; it is a Proposition 103 watchdog agency. Complaints against HMOs not licensed as insurance companies go to the Department of Corporations.)
  
  
• Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa - Family Support Center
  Emergency shelter and support services for families with children, pregnant women, elderly, or disabled persons. Bilingual (Spanish-English).
 This agency provides emergency rental assistance funds to help tenants keep their rental units, or help with first month's rent and/or deposits for moving into a rental unit (HCA Fund Program).
  
  
• Center for Independent Living (CIL)
  A non-profit agency that provides services to people with disabilities so that they may live independently in their communities.
  
  
• Center for Social Advocacy
  The Center for Social Advocacy is a 501(c)(3) incorporated nonprofit organization founded in 1969 and they are one of San Diego’s oldest civil and human rights organizations. They have stood as advocates for fair housing and mediated tenant/landlord issues, and still do so today. Other issues the Center for Social Advocacy addresses include: hate crime prevention, civil rights of first generation immigrants, human trafficking, youth…
  
  
• Chinatown Service Center
  Provides information and referrals to social services and consumer education. Provides welfare, medical and social security information. Will assist in the completion of forms and translation of documents. Also offers employment training, job placement, mental health services, medical clinic services, elderly services and in-home services.
  
  
• City of Bakersfield's Fair Housing Division
  The City of Bakersfield's Fair Housing division responds to housing discrimination complaints, educates the housing community on fair housing law, and implements the City's 2005 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice.
  
  
• City of Santa Rosa - Department of Economic Development and Housing
  The Department of Economic Development and Housing of the City of Santa Rosa administers a variety of programs to facilitate a positive business climate and encourage the development of existing and emerging industry clusters; effectively manage the community’s parking assets; revitalize blighted and economically disadvantaged areas; and develop and administer a variety of affordable housing programs.
  
  
• Civil Justice Network
  The Civil Justice Network works to increase the delivery of legal services to Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia clients of low and moderate income through a network of solo, small firm and community based lawyers who share a common commitment to increasing access to justice through traditional and non-traditional means.
  
  

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