Emergency Help
Emergency Legal Help in Idaho
find out about:
Find the nearest Idaho Legal Aid Services office
To find more information about Idaho laws and ways to help yourself:
- Contact your local
Court Assistance Office (CAO). There are many forms, instructions, and/or
videos that you can use as a legal resource.
- Go to the CAO website to download forms, instructions, and/or videos.
http://www2.state.id.us/CAO/
To find a pro bono attorney:
- Call the Idaho Volunteer Lawyers Program
(208)
334-4510
-or-
1-800-221-3295
- Write the Idaho Volunteer Lawyers Program
IVLP
P.O. Box 895
Boise, ID
83701-0895
To find a private attorney:
- Call the Idaho State Bar Lawyer Referral Service
(208)
334-4500
If you have any questions about a lawyer, call the Idaho State Bar, (208)
334-4500
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If you, as an individual or family, are seeking housing, the Fair Housing Act
prohibits discrimination because of:
- race
- color
- national origin
- religion
- sex
- familial status: Children under 18 living with parents or legal
custodians, pregnant women, or people trying to get custody of someone under
the age of 18.
- disability: mental and/or physical.
The term "housing" includes the following:
- apartments
- condominiums
- duplexes
- multi-unit dwellings: rental units of 4 units or more
- mobile homes/trailer courts
- private homes and housing for sale
- vacant land
- homeless shelters (although not a place of permanent residence)
- shelters for battered women and their families
- group homes for recovery of drug addicts and alcoholics
- seasonal bungalows
- hospices
- senior/nursing homes
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If you feel you have been discriminated against, you can file a complaint
with the following state and federal authorities:
- Intermountain Fair Housing Council:
| in Boise: |
208-383-0695 |
| Toll Free: |
1-800-717-0695/TTY |
| Fax: |
208-342-2561 |
| Email: |
ifhcboise@aol.com |
| Mail: |
PO Box 1947 Boise, ID 83701 |
- United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD):
| For Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington |
| in WA: |
206-220-5170 |
| Toll Free: |
1-800-877-0246 |
| TTY: |
206-220-5185 |
| Mail: |
909 First Avenue, Rm. 205 |
| |
Seattle, WA 98104-1000 |
| Web: |
www.hud.gov |
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