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Provides housing counseling services. Helps homeowners whose mortgage delinquency is due to involuntary unemployment, under-employment, or medical reasons. Also helps those who are looking to become homeowners with monthly workshops, financial counseling, and closing cost assistance grants.

Provides housing stabilization services including credit and budget counseling; foreclosure prevention counseling; eviction prevention through payment assistance when funds are available and landlord-tenant mediation; and first-time home buyers education and counseling.

Offers legal aid for low-income homeowners facing evictions and foreclosures.

Remote sessions take about 90 minutes to complete while the traditional face-to-face sessions can take over 2-3 hours. Counselors are certified by PHFA and NeighborWorks. Participants needs to have a Smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer and a device that has a web camera so that the counselor can clearly see you during the session.

Offers a range of programs to ensure that consumers have access to housing and understand their rights under fair housing laws. Services include counseling on the rights protected under fair housing laws, information on how to recognize and report violations, information on legal options and assistance with the legal process, random testing to ensure regional compliance with fair housing laws, technical assistance, and comprehensive education programs.

Provides homebuyer and homeowner counseling and education, including foreclosure prevention services. All services are available virtually.

Clarifi works with struggling homeowners in all stages from those who are current but facing potential future delinquency to those whose homes are scheduled for sheriff's sale.

Court of the Common Pleas, 43rd Judicial District in Monroe County office this service in an effort to address the increasing number of property foreclosures in the county. Objective of the program is to provide a streamlined, unified process for the resolution of mortgage foreclosure proceedings through court intervention, housing counseling, and conciliation conferences.

Assists with pre-and post-renting, rental delinquency/default, post purchase counseling, first-time mortgage counseling, anti-predatory lending, and mortgage default and delinquency counseling.

Offers HUD-certified housing counselors to assist individuals and families in Schuylkill County with a wide range of housing needs. Services include:

• Budgeting and Financial Counseling: Guidance to manage finances and achieve housing stability.
• Mortgage and Foreclosure Prevention: Support for homeowners facing foreclosure, including assistance with HEMAP.
• HECM (Reverse Mortgage) Counseling: For older homeowners considering a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage.
• Eviction Prevention: Strategies and referrals to help renters avoid losing their housing.
• Predatory Lending Education: Identify and avoid risky lending practices.
• Housing Options for Buyers & Renters: Counseling and resources to explore affordable housing, first-time homebuying, and rental opportunities.

All services comply with Equal Housing Opportunity guidelines.

Assists homeowners facing foreclosure. Provides early court intervention for owner-occupied residential mortgage cases, helping homeowners explore options to retain their properties or, if necessary, allow lenders to proceed to Sheriff Sale. SCA counselors provide skilled support and representation, assisting homeowners in negotiating repayment terms, loan modifications, and other solutions to resolve mortgage defaults. In partnership with the Court of Common Pleas – 21st Judicial District and the Schuylkill County Bar Association.

Offers free legal help for low-income and vulnerable residents. Services may include bankruptcy, debt relief, consumer law, child custody and dependency issues, disaster legal aid, elder law, expungements, pardons, and record sealing. May also cover government benefits issues concerning Unemployment Compensation, SSI, SSDI, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), SNAP (food stamps), Medical Assistance (Medicaid), and Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Housing issues such as landlord-tenant, eviction, habitability, public or subsidized housing, rent-to-own, homeownership, mortgage foreclosure, property tax sales, reverse mortgages, and tangled title; utility problems, and veterans benefits and discharge upgrades.

Offers HUD/FHA mortgage insurance, low and moderate income and elderly housing programs, community development assistance to local governments, and financial and technical assistance to organizations administering ongoing HUD programs, projects, and developments. Literature and speakers available.

Provides civil legal services to low-income individuals and families without the means to hire a private attorney.

Offers free legal help for low-income and vulnerable residents. Services may include bankruptcy, debt relief, consumer law, child custody and dependency issues, disaster legal aid, elder law, expungements, pardons, and record sealing. May also cover government benefits issues concerning Unemployment Compensation, SSI, SSDI, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), SNAP (food stamps), Medical Assistance (Medicaid), and Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Housing issues such as landlord-tenant, eviction, habitability, public or subsidized housing, rent-to-own, homeownership, mortgage foreclosure, property tax sales, reverse mortgages, and tangled title; utility problems, and veterans benefits and discharge upgrades.

Assists struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure by offering loan modifications, refinance options, principal reduction, and short sale or deed-in-lieu alternatives.

Offers free legal help for low-income and vulnerable residents. Services may include bankruptcy, debt relief, consumer law, child custody and dependency issues, disaster legal aid, elder law, expungements, pardons, and record sealing. May also cover government benefits issues concerning Unemployment Compensation, SSI, SSDI, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), SNAP (food stamps), Medical Assistance (Medicaid), and Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Housing issues such as landlord-tenant, eviction, habitability, public or subsidized housing, rent-to-own, homeownership, mortgage foreclosure, property tax sales, reverse mortgages, and tangled title; utility problems, and veterans benefits and discharge upgrades.

Offers support for the Elderly Property Tax and Extension Program which can extend, defer, or assist older adults who are behind on property taxes. Older adults are also assisted with foreclosure preventions/loss mitigation counseling, budgeting and financial coaching.

Clarifi works with struggling homeowners in all stages from those who are current but facing potential future delinquency to those whose homes are scheduled for sheriff's sale.

Provides housing stabilization services including credit and budget counseling; foreclosure prevention counseling; eviction prevention through payment assistance when funds are available and landlord-tenant mediation; and first-time home buyers education and counseling.

Provides a mortgage assistance program which reviews your current financial situation and can help to prevent foreclosure.

Provides housing counseling including:

• pre-purchase group counseling
• default and delinquency counseling
• foreclosure prevention counseling

Helps those who are behind on their mortgage and have received a sheriff’s notice, also known as an Urgent Notice.

Offers free legal help for low-income and vulnerable residents. Services may include bankruptcy, debt relief, consumer law, child custody and dependency issues, disaster legal aid, elder law, expungements, pardons, and record sealing. May also cover government benefits issues concerning Unemployment Compensation, SSI, SSDI, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), SNAP (food stamps), Medical Assistance (Medicaid), and Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Housing issues such as landlord-tenant, eviction, habitability, public or subsidized housing, rent-to-own, homeownership, mortgage foreclosure, property tax sales, reverse mortgages, and tangled title; utility problems, and veterans benefits and discharge upgrades.