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Apartment Locator Services

Apartment Locator Services In All 50 States & DC
Apartments,  Banking & Financial, Corporate Apartments Domestic Services, Education, Employment Services, Full Service Relocation Companies , Health Care, Home Furnishings, Hotels, Insurance Internet Service Providers, Transportation and more.

For Other Apartment Locators, search the Phone Book and Internet.

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Discrimination
If you think the landlord has denied you housing/ or discriminated against you on the basis of Race, Color, Religion, Sex, National Origin, Family Status or  Disability:

Discrimination/Fair Housing

Consumer-S0S/Disabilities
                    
     
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Graffiti

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Health & Safety

Find Your City's Municipal Codes
Learn how your city code treats, garbage, nuisance and safety hazards. If you can't find your city, follow their links to other code sites that can help you.

Lighting Up for Crime Prevention (HTML)
See right hand side Table of Contents. Outlines the frameworks in which lighting is used to prevent crime, presents key questions to help assess lighting needs, presents evidence of lighting's impact, and suggests numerous resources.

Neighborhood Watch Gets Residents Prepared
See right hand side Table of Contents. Provides residents with the information they need to strengthen their communities and effectively prevent and respond to the threats of terrorism, crime, or any kind of disaster through a Neighborhood Watch Program.

Neighborhood Organizations
Find out about neighborhood watches and other community groups in your area or anywhere else throughout the country.

Zoning 

Nuisances

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Housing Code Violations

Find Your City's Municipal Codes
Learn how your city code treats, garbage, nuisance and safety hazards. If you can't find your city, follow their links to other code sites that can help you.

Neighborhood Organizations
Find out about neighborhood watches and other community groups in your area or anywhere else throughout the country.

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Legal

http://www.badlandlords.info/  
Has help resources for 31 states, i.e. where to report your landlord and where to get free legal help. Also has links to each state's landlord/tenant laws.  

For More Help See Lawyers, Courts & Self Help (Consumer-SOS)

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Parks

Check your phonebook's city government pages for "parks" or "recreation"

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Rent, Utilities, Transportation, Food+Clothing

Help With Rent In California (Google)
For help in your county or city, add your county or city's name in the Google search box.

Housing
Low cost housing , renter assistance for seniors, renter's rights

United Way Help Line  (For All 50 States, DC & Puerto Rico)
Choose your state, select your city, and look up help agencies throughout the country! Their stellar search engine can lead you to any social service topic imaginable.  Just type in the words "Utilities and Assistance", or "Food and Clothing" or "Mortgage and Assistance"

The Salvation Army Nearest You   (All 50 States & DC)
The Salvation Army often helps with rent, utilities, transportation, food, clothing and mortgage assistance.

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Roommate Problems

www.nolo.com
Offers ways to cope with a variety of roommate related problems.

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Streets & Sidewalks

Check your phonebook's city government pages for "public works" or "streets and sidewalks."

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Media/Consumer Watch Groups

Involving The Media And Consumer Watch Groups

 If the law will not address your wrong, sometimes you can still win in the court of public opinion. This may require that you involve the media and consumer watch groups.  REMEMBER, bad press hurts business and may even prompt lawmakers to pass new legislation to help others in your situation.      

When talking to the media, make your plight a human interest story.  Explain how your problem affects:  safety, business, the city's image, the homeless, crime, drug use, widows, orphans, children, the disabled, the elderly, the economy, the environment, the insane, immigrants, the illiterate, race relations, tourism, violence, the state and federal budget, health, disease, safety...etc. 

Give the reporter the names and numbers of other victims (first get their permission) and have these people call in with similar stories.  Also provide the reporter/agency with a list of names and phone numbers so that he can interview the landlord, the management company and its agents.  Make it so the reporter can write your story without ever leaving his chair.

If you receive a positive response, send it immediately to each and every other agency/newspaper.  The more support you have the more likely you will be taken seriously.  Watch your cause build momentum as these groups feed off one another and people jump on the bandwagon.  Lastly, write your state senator/house  representative to pass legislation to stop this terrible wrong.  Send a brief cover letter explaining your situation and how it effects others.  Also enclose favorable responses from the media and other agencies.  


Find Your Local Newspaper, Magazine, Radio & TV Stations
Trouble getting the government to act on your behalf? Give them a little bad press and you're bargaining power increases tremendously. Select your state, and then click on your county or city for the proper media to report to. (DC Not Included).

Call For Action  

American Association Of Retired Persons  


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Transportation

Department Of Transportation (DOTs)(50 States, Not DC)
For help with car related issues ie, car damaged caused by pavement, unsafe streets, traffic, bridges and roads, etc.

See Carpools

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