HOUSING, FINANCIAL &
LEGAL

Housing Assistance

Free and confidential housing counseling services:

California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA)

Homeless Housing County Program: frontdoormendocino.org

CDC Website: cdchousing.org

Utility Bills 

CARE and FERA are PG&E discount programs that help eligible low income customers pay their energy bills.

California LIHEAP
aids low income households and families that need are unable to pay for the cost of heating and cooling bills. Energy assistance is provided as a one-time financial assistance or as emergency assistance, such as after a household receives a disconnect notice from a utility company. Additionally, the program provides eligible households with free weatherization upgrades in order to lower monthly utility bills moving forward.

Unemployment

Apply For Unemployment Benefits (EDD)

Taxes

How Unemployment Benefits Are Taxed in 2023

Legal Help

Legal Services of Northern California serving Mendocino County: toll free 707-877-529-7700. Help with evictions, court orders, custody issues and more. A free legal service to low income community members. Help is available in English and in Spanish.

Superior Court of California Mendocino Self Help Center

Western Center in Law & Poverty Update

Community Resources

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