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Resist displacement! Resist evictions!! Resist unfair rent increases!!! We provide free consultations at the pre-eviction stage. Come to the office at the first sign of trouble. See below for intake hours. We provide full scope representation in eviction court by qualified and experienced attorneys. Representation is based on ability to pay. We prepare the Answer to the Complaint and prepare the case to be tried before a jury. We have success in 98% of the cases we handle. See below for details. Hours: If you are already in eviction court come to our office at 1930 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 208 LA 90057 on Monday thru Friday 9AM to 6PM. Walk in only. No one is turned away. Your case will be assessed. If all of our intake slots are filled we may ask you to return the next day if the situation can wait or to attend one of the tenant right clinics we supervise. Due to the high volume of requests, if you are NOT yet in eviction court we prefer you attend one of the following pre-eviction orientation sessions where you will learn your rights and receive a free individual consultation AFTER the orientation; please bring ALL your documents, rental agreement, rent receipts, notices, letters and photos. Please print your photos.

Locations: Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 1930 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 208. Arrive by 6PM to sign up and fill out paperwork. Presentation 7PM. Consultations 7PM. Please be courteous; bring a snack you may be waiting a while. 2nd, 4th and 5th Wednesday at Venice Family Clinic at 604 Rose Avenue Venice. Arrive by 6PM. Thursdays at the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment at 3655 S. Grand Av. #250 Los Angeles, CA 90007. Arrive by 6PM. Every Wednesday at the Coalition for Economic Survival 7377 Santa Monica Blvd. Arrive by 10AM. Saturdays at the Church of the Epiphany at 2808 Altura in Lincoln Heights from 1pm to 4pm. Arrive by 12:30PM.

Goals: If the tenant lives in a below-market rate, rent controlled, or subsidized unit every effort is made to keep the household in place. If the tenant lives in a market-rate unit where the rent is not protected we stabilize the family by negotiating time to move and a forgiveness of some or all of the rent so that the family can move. We are also actively engaged in efforts to organize building-wide campaigns to stop building-wide evictions and rent increases and negotiate long-term leases for non-rent controlled tenants. What to bring: 1) any notices from the owner; 2) the summons and complaint for eviction; 3) your rental agreement; 4) your rent receipts; 5) photographs of the condition of your unit; 6) health or other housing code enforcement reports; 6) names and phone numbers of all of your witnesses; 7) any other evidence related to your tenancy or your case; 8) anything else you think is important.

Success Rate: We have a 98% success rate. We are most successful when we are hired early in the case. Most of the 2% of the cases where we are not successful is folks who come to us at the last minute. Please come for your free consultation at the first sign of trouble with your landlord. The statement of our success rate is not a guarantee. Definition of Success: Winning in court. Getting the landlord to dismiss (cancel) the case. Negotiating time to move with a forgiveness of the rent and a clean record. In 2016 the average amount of time we got for people who wanted to move was 5 months from the date the complaint was filed. In 2016 the average amount of saved rent we got for people who moved was six months. This is enough time to stabilize a household. I cannot afford to pay any fee: 45,000 evictions were filed in LA County in 2017. According to 1998 and 2002 studies, 99% of the tenants that go to court alone lose their homes and end up with evictions on their records and a debt to the landlord that accrues a 10% interest and huge collection fees. IT IS ESSENTIAL that you have an attorney in court. During the eviction process you do not pay your rent. You owe it. You must save it. You can invest a small part of it to secure representation and then replenish it while you wait for your case to go to trial. Our fees are very reasonable and are based on your ability to pay. We also offer payment plans on a case by case basis. Privacy Statement: Any information you give us in person is 100% confidential and subject to the code of ethics. The following privacy statement applies to information gathered via the internet from you before you become a client. The Eviction Defense Network(EDN) has a decade of history of being at the forefront of protecting individual privacy, and we are particularly committed to protecting the personal information that you provide and entrust to us when using the EDN’s websites. This online privacy statement (the “Privacy Statement”) describes how we treat all user data collected by the EDN during your visit to the EDN Site, both technical data that is automatically collected and voluntarily submitted data. For purposes of this Privacy Statement, the “EDN Site” is the website whose home page is edn.la and includes all web pages whose domain name contains the following: www.evictiondefensenetwork.org, [email protected], https://www.facebook.com/pages/evictiondefensenetwork, [email protected] and edn.la/blog. This Privacy Statement does not apply to those websites (unless those websites link directly to this Privacy Statement) and the terms of the privacy statements for those other EDN websites may differ from the terms of this Privacy Statement. Additionally, this is not the privacy statement for internet sites (e.g. blogs, forums or social networking sites) where EDN has a presence that are on websites other than the EDN Site. Further, this is not the privacy statement for the websites of any EDN local affiliates, and you should refer to the privacy statements on those affiliates’ websites or contact those affiliates to learn the manner in which they treat information you provide to them through their websites’ (or provide to them in any manner other than through the EDN Site). This also is not the Privacy Statement applicable to websites linked to from the EDN Site. See also “Third-Party Functionality” to learn about third-party optional functionality that appears on the EDN Site. The EDN may occasionally update this Statement. We will post any changes on this web page, so be sure to check back periodically. If we do make material changes, we will post a notice on our home page that the Privacy Statement has been modified and provide a link to the revised Privacy Statement. Any information that you submit after a change has been posted will be subject to the new provisions. User Data We Collect: We collect two types of user data: (1) technical data that is automatically collected from all visitors to the EDN Site (“Automatically Collected Data”); and (2) data that you voluntarily submit to us (described below under "Voluntarily Submitted Data"). Automatically Collected Data. We automatically collect and store Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses and domain names of the originating visitor’s computer on our server and may know some information you have previously provided through cookies. (See the section on “Cookies” below for more information.) 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