Due to overwhelming demand, Tenants Together, California’s Statewide Organization for Renters’ Rights, released its Action Guide for Tenants in Foreclosure Situations, to help tenants who are victims of the foreclosure crisis to learn, assert, and expand their rights.
The Action Guide is available online at www.tenantstogether.org/ActionGuide.
As recently noted by California Attorney General Jerry Brown, “tenants who live in properties in foreclosure are the forgotten victims of the collapse of the housing market.” Tenant Together released its Action Guide to aid these tenants who are routinely harassed and mislead by banks and private investors after foreclosure.
The Action Guide includes four sections:
- Section 1 helps tenants learn what stage in the foreclosure process their home is in
- Section 2 helps tenants learn and assert their rights so they can stay in their home for as long as possible, maintain their home in a habitable condition, live free of harassment from their landlord, and recover their security deposit
- Section 3 helps tenants learn how they can pressure bad actors (typically banks, private investors, real estate agents, and eviction law firms) by shining a public spotlight on them. The Action Guide includes downloadable sample-letters to banks and to elected officials as well as a web-based, sample letter to the editor.
- Section 4 helps tenants work to expand their rights by forming local Tenant Action Groups and by demanding that their city council pass a local just cause for eviction ordinances to provide long-term protections for tenants in foreclosure situations
The Action Guide is intended as a supplement to the information tenants will get from a trained counselor by contacting Tenant Together’s Tenant Foreclosure Hotline at 888-495-8020 or by submitting an online intake form at www.tenantstogether.org/hotlineintake. Since launching in March, 2009, the hotline has counseled over 4,000 tenants.
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It’s good that somebody is trying to help…they really are the forgotten victims.