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   Financing Your Home: Your Fair Housing Rights
Federal laws that protect you from illegal discrimination when you finance your home. What to do if you think there has been illegal discrimination.
By: Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, Inc. (FHAC)
  
   
   Purchasing Your Home: Your Fair Housing Rights
Learn about the laws protecting you from illegal discrimination when you buy a home.
By: Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, Inc. (FHAC)
  
   
   Home Loan Scams: Borrower Beware This link opens a PDF file in a new window.  If you do not have an accessible Acrobat Reader, a link is provided at the bottom of this page.
What you need to know to avoid bad loan deals or "predatory loans"
By: Elder Law Task Force & Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
  
   
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   Hiring a Home Repair Contractor
Tips on how to hire a home repair contractor. Now you can hear a sound recording of this LawHelp item. Click on the title for more.
By: Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (New Orleans office)
 
  
   
   Insuring Your Home: Your Fair Housing Rights
Learn about the federal laws protecting you from illegal discrimination in home insurance.
By: Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, Inc. (FHAC)
  
   
   Anti-Discrimination Housing Laws (Separate Website)
Information about The Fair Housing Act and other federal laws and executive orders that protect you from housing discrimination, including discrimination in home financing.
By: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

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   Avoid foreclosure rescue scams! Tips from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
See the information page and video.
By: Federal Trade Commission -- FTC

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   Avoid foreclosure rescue scams! Tips from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Watch this video to learn more about foreclosure rescue scams and how to avoid becoming a victim.
By: Federal Trade Commission -- FTC
  
   
   Avoid Predatory Lending
Tips for spotting a bad home loan, or a predatory lender.
By: Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (New Orleans office)
 
  
   
   Avoiding Foreclosure (Separate Website)
See this fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, with information about what you may be able to do to avoid foreclosure.
By: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  
   
   Don't Be a Victim of Loan Fraud (Separate Website)
See this information sheet about avoiding loan scams and fraud, especially predatory home loans.
By: US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development -- HUD

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   Fair Housing -- Equal Opportunity for All This link opens a PDF file in a new window.  If you do not have an accessible Acrobat Reader, a link is provided at the bottom of this page. (Separate Website)
Check out this brochure from HUD about fair housing and housing discrimination.
By: HUD -- US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

    Read this in: Chinese / 中文 , Spanish / Español , Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt
  
   
   Foreclosure -- the Process in Louisiana
Find out more about foreclosure here.
By: Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
 
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   GobiernoUSA.gov (Separate Website)
Recursos del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos en español.
By: Administración de Servicios Generales de los Estados Unidos
  
   
   Guide to Avoiding Foreclosure (Separate Website)
Information and resources from HUD to help you avoid foreclosure and keep your home.
By: US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development - HUD

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   HANO -- Home Ownership Programs (Separate Website)
Find out more here about home buying opportunities for lower income people, from the Housing Authority of New Orleans, or HANO.
By: HANO -- Housing Authority of New Orleans
  
   
   HANO Home Ownership Program This link opens a PDF file in a new window.  If you do not have an accessible Acrobat Reader, a link is provided at the bottom of this page. (Separate Website)
Find out more about HANO's home ownership program.
By: HANO - Housing Authority of New Orleans
  
   
   Help for Tenants, Homeowners and Homeless Persons (Separate Website)
Here are links and other information from the National Housing Law Project targeted to tenants, homeowners and homeless people.
By: National Housing Law Project
  
   
   Home Finance and Sales - Federal Consumer Information Center (Separate Website)
See this list of resources available from the Federal Consumer Information Center about home financing and related issues.
By: Federal Consumer Information Center
  
   
   Housing Justice Network (Separate Website)
HJN focuses on public and subsidized housing, Section 8 assistance, single family housing foreclosures, fair housing, CDBG and HOME programs, the housing programs of the Rural Housing Service, and more
  
   
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