AmeriCorps - Assistant Rental Housing Advocate

Activities include helping rental housing counseling program clients avoid homelessness via assisting emergency/crisis victims and other households at risk in maintaining their current homes or finding temporary and/or permanent housing, including placing homeless clients in hotels for short-term and/or long-term stays, processing applications for emergency housing resettlement grants, counseling rental housing clients (including filling out housing applications, interviewing them to determine and document need, drafting an Action Plan/Housing Stability plan, etc.), case follow-up, and other tasks related to the rental housing counseling process.