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16 people are interested
Fair Housing Testers Needed
ORGANIZATION: Long Island Housing Services
Please visit the new page to apply.
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16 people are interested
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS!!! Year-round opportunity.
Needed: VolunteersCALL: 631-567-5111, ext. 318 (Suffolk) or
516-292-0400, ext. 318 (Nassau) TODAY!!
Visit:www.LIFairHousing.org
Long Island Housing Services, the not-for-profit, Fair Housing agency serving Nassau and Suffolk is currently seeking volunteers to serve as
Fair Housing Testers Tester Training Class - January of 2014Testers are volunteers rather than employees. Long Island Housing Services will train and may provide volunteer Testers a $15/hour/stipend and expenses.
Qualifications:
Must attend training session in Spring of 2014
Must be reliable
Must have reliable transportation
Willing to work in Nassau&Suffolk
Ability to write a report
Responsibly maintain communication
Honesty and objectivity
Clean record (no felony or fraud convictions)
Must consent to a criminal background check
Long Island Housing Services needs conscientious volunteers for ongoing project. Participate in something worthwhile; support Fair Housing.
This is a volunteer opportunity, not employment.
Assignments are temporary and occasional.
Long Island Housing Services, Inc.
640 Johnson Avenue Suite 8 Bohemia NY 11716-2624
Our mission is the elimination of unlawful housing discrimination and promotion of decent and affordable housing through advocacy and education.
More opportunities with Long Island Housing Services
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Long Island Housing Services
Location:
640 johnson Avenue, Suite 8, Bohemia, NY 11716, US
Mission Statement
"Our mission is the elimination of unlawful housing discrimination and promotion of decent and affordable housing through advocacy and education."
"Nuestra mision es la eliminacion de la discriminacion ilegal en la vivienda y la promocion de la casa economica por el apoyo y la educacion."
Description
Long Island Housing Services - in brief! Elimination of unlawful housing discrimination ranks as the agency's priority. However, in addition to Fair Housing counseling and investigations, seeking redress for victims where compelling evidence is gathered, we also serve in many other capacities to improve housing conditions for residents. Routinely, clients are referred to us by word-of-mouth and a wide variety of private and public agencies to assist in counseling to resolve many landlord-tenant disputes related to: relationships/communication with housing providers; illegal eviction actions (such as denial of essential services like heat, water, electricity); securing or maintaining housing; improving conditions of habitability (e.g. sanitation/plumbing, infestation, fallen ceilings, leaking roofs/windows); denial of reasonable accommodation (e.g. for creating ramp or parking accessible for tenant's use); setting illegal occupancy rules, etcetera. Examples of local government agencies from which clients are commonly referred are: County Courts and Departments of Health, Handicapped, Senior and Social Services, Police, as well as Town Building and Code Enforcement Departments. LIHS also counsels homeowners that are in danger of foreclosure because of changed economic circumstances (e.g. loss of or diminished income related to hospitalization, illness, job loss, death or separation of families). Besides our unique fair housing services, LIHS is also distinguished from any other HUD-approved, certified Housing Counseling agency that serves Long Island. For the second year in a row, our Housing Counseling Program Coordinator is the only one to have passed HUD-AARP's rigorous examination, a prerequisite for counseling for seniors 62 and over that wish to explore the option of a reverse mortgage. Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ("HECM") loans require this specialized and highly sensitive counseling to safeguard from abusive lending practices that can actually cause all of one's equity to be stripped into homelessness.
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640 Johnson AvenueSuite 8Bohemia, NY 11716
DATE POSTED
April 16, 2014
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