Consumer Services Guide (CSG)
Consumer Services Guide (CSG) 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.Records Found: 98
- Alliance to Save Energy
The Alliance to Save Energy offers consumers all the information they need to save money, increase comfort, and even reduce pollution through energy efficiency. -Cut your home utility bills — freeing money for other things. -Increase your comfort. -Reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. -Increase national security. -Relax while energy-efficient technologies and products continue producing these benefits for you day after day, year after year. - Architects Board
The Board protects the health, safety, and welfare of the public through the regulation of the practice of architecture in California. It establishes regulations for examination and licensing of the profession of architecture in California. - Asian Law Alliance
Provides counsel and advice on a wide range of legal problems. Handles housing discrimination and landlord/tenant disputes. - Asian Law Caucus (ALC)
Non-profit legal organization which offers assistance to low-income consumers. Promote, advances and represents the legal and civil rights of Asian and Pacific Islander communities. ALC provides help throughout the Bay Area. Free or low-cost, depending on income. Housing Advocacy Project: Beyond Eviction Defense The Housing Advocacy Project addresses the lack of affordable housing in the Bay Area. The project provides legal assistance to individual non-English… - Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board
Contact for questions about rent control or general rental information in Berkeley. Provides landlord/tenant counseling and arbitration of rent increases. - Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
This boards regulates the practice of professional engineering and land surveying. It licenses qualified individuals as professional engineers and land surveyors; anticipates changes in the engineering and land surveying professions to ensure that the laws and regulations are contemporary, relevant, and responsive; establishes regulations and promotes professional conduct; enforces laws and regulations; provides information so that the public can make informed decisions regarding utilizing professional… - Building Code Enforcement Offices
To obtain building code information and building code enforcement. - Calaveras County Administrative Offices
Calaveras County Housing Repair Program: Calaveras County can assist you 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 Real Estate
Search current licensee records online. View a list of individuals or entities conducting real estate activities without proper licensing. - California - Housing Finance Agency (CHFA)
CHFA finances below-market-rate loans to affordable rental housing and assists first-time home buyers. - 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 Department of Community Services and Development
The Department of Community Services and Development (CSD) administers and enhances energy and community services programs that result in an improved quality of life for the poor. Among others, the CSD administers the following programs: The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) provides financial assistance to low-income persons to offset the costs of heating and/or cooling dwellings, and provides installation of weatherization measures that increase… - 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.
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- California Human Development Corporation (CHDC)
Multi-Service One-Stop Center; providing services to low income and farm worker households. 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). It also provides a free Residential Weatherization Program for low-income households, owners or renters, to ensure the safe operation of… - 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.… - Catholic Charities-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 Social Advocacy
The Center for Social Advocacy is responsive to issues of housing discrimination, hate crimes, youth alienation and modern-day slavery and human trafficking. They provide counseling, tenant/landlord assistance, mediation, community outreach education and/or training, fair housing advocacy and a variety of volunteer 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. - Civil Rights Division, (DOJ)
The Division is the program institution within the federal government responsible for enforcing federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, handicap, religion, and national origin. Contact the Housing Discrimination Tip Line to report an incident of housing discrimination: 1-800-896-7743 (toll-free Tip Line) (202) 514-4713 (local calls) (202) 305-1882 (TTY) (202) 514-1116 (Fax) fairhousing@usdoj.gov - Committee On The Shelterless (COTS)
Emergency shelter and support services for families and singles with children in southern Sonoma County. - Community Action Partnership Of Sonoma County
(Formerly Sonoma County People for Economic Opportunity) Housing and other services for the homeless and low and moderate income families, including Head Start, Youth Build, and health care services. 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). - Community Development Commission
The CDC administers a range of programs designed to assist low to moderate income homeowners and tenants and to encourage commercial revitalization. Rental assistance is offered to lower income tenants through subsidized rents. Rehabilitation loans are offered to landlords to maintain existing affordable rental units. Lower income owner-occupants are provided financial assistance to rehabilitate their home. - Community Housing Agency of Butte County, Inc.
Community Housing Agency of Butte County is a private, non-profit, charitable corporation that operates several programs: Housing & Community Development (includes the Energy Saving Rehabilitation – Utility Assistance Programs); Food & Nutrition; and the Esplanade House. Each department consists of various projects and programs that enable low-income families and elderly to improve their lives. - Community Resources For Independence (CRI)
Direct and support services for people with disabilities. Disability law clinic, housing information, housing access modification program, interpreter referral of qualified American Sign Language interpreters, personal assistant (PA) referral and in-home support services. 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).