Housing Publications and Links

SC Appleseed Legal Justice Center advocates statewide for legislation and policies that ensure adequate affordable housing for all South Carolinians.

Housing Publications Available from SC Appleseed:

Brochures

• The Eviction Process (Available in Spanish)
• Getting Your Landlord to Make Repairs (Available in Spanish)
• Public and Housing: Your Rights and Responsibilities
• Rent Calculation in Public Housing
• Rent-to-Own Home Sales (Available in Spanish)
• SC Landlord-Tenant Law (Available in Spanish)

Manuals

• An Advocate’s Guide to Fair Housing Act
• Housing Opportunities in South Carolina
• SC Appleseed’s Role In Housing Law and Policy

PowerPoint Presentations

• Protecting Your Rights – What You Need to Know about Fair Housing Laws
• SC Landlord – Tenant Law
• The Effects of VAWA 2005 on Housing Law Full Version

Housing Links to Outside Resources:

(SC Appleseed is not responsible for the accuracy or content of external websites.)

SC Organizations

• Affordable Housing Coalition of South Carolina — http://www.affordablehousingsc.org
• Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation — http://www.heirsproperty.org
• SC Association of Community Development Corporations — http://www.communitydevelopmentsc.org
• SC Department of Mental Health Housing and Homeless Programs — http://www.state. sc.us/dmh/consumer_housing.htm
• SC State Housing Finance & Development Authority — http://www.schousing.com
• USC Institute for Families in Society — http://ifs.sc.edu

SC Legal Agencies

• Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities — http://www.protectionandadvocacy-sc.org
• South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center — https://www.scjustice.org
• South Carolina Legal Services — http://www.sclegal.org

National Housing Organizations

• Housing Assistance Council — http://www.ruralhome.org
• HUD Clips — http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/hudclips/
• Joint Center for Housing Studies — http://www.jchs.harvard.edu
• National Housing Conference — http://www.nhc.org
• National Housing Institute — http://www.nhi.org
• National Housing Law Project — http://www.nhlp.org
• National Low Income Housing Coalition — http://www.nlihc.org
• Poverty & Race Research Action Council: Housing — http://www.prrac.org/topic_type.php?topic_id=13&type_group=5
• Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law — http://www.povertylaw.org
• US Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) — http://www.hud.gov

Homeless Organizations

• SC Council on Homelessness — http://www.schomeless.org/scch_cont.php
• HUD Homeless Information for South Carolina — http://www.hud.gov/local/index.cfm?state=sc&topic=homeless
• Lowcountry Continuum of Care Partnership — http://lowcountrycoc.org
• Midlands Area Consortium for the Homeless — http://www.midlandshomeless.com
• National Alliance to End Homelessness — http://www.naeh.org
• National Coalition for the Homeless — http://www.nationalhomeless.org
• National Health Care for the Homeless Council — http://www.nhchc.org
• National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty — http://www.nlchp.org
• SC Homeless Coalition / SC Coalition on Homelessness — http://www.schomeless.org
• StandUp for Kids — http://www.standupforkids.org
• Upstate Homeless Coalition — http://www.upstatehomeless.com

Fair Housing

• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law — http://www.bazelon.org
• Fair Housing Accessibility First — http://www.fairhousingfirst.org
• HUD Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity — http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo
• The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center — http://www.jmls.edu/fairhousingcenter/index.shtml
• National Fair Housing Alliance — http://www.nationalfairhousing.org
• SC Human Affairs Commission — http://www.state.sc.us/schac

Renting

• Renting: Rights and Responsibilities — www.hud.gov/renting
• SC Housing Search — http://www.schousingsearch.com