2011-10-27T10:34:55-07:00 2010-12-31 CAPITAL TAX AND ACCOUNTING 150 N WIGET LN STE 206 WALNUT CREEK CA 945982434 990 2010-01-01 202573758 Housing and Economic Rights Advocates HOUS 5102718443 1814 Franklin Street Oakland CA 94612 Maeve Elise Brown 2011-10-27 Zachary Sahar CPA 9259777780 2010 2016-03-07 17:11:31Z 687728 false false X N/A X 2005 CA The organization is a statewide, legal services and advocacy organization whose mission is to protect all people from discrimination and economic abuses, especially in the realm of housing. 7 7 0 0 356679 613251 49318 73277 1769 1200 0 407766 687728 0 0 342031 452627 0 13040 113526 185560 455557 638187 -47791 49541 148611 282811 6705 26515 141906 256296 The organization is a statewide, legal services and advocacy organization whose mission is to protect all people from discrimination and economic abuses, especially in the realm of housing. false false 596685 HERA is a not-for-profit, California statewide, legal services and advocacy organization whose mission is to protect all people from discrimination and economic abuses, especially in the realm of housing. To achieve this, HERA provides services which prevent or reduce predatory lending and related practices that result in homeownership loss or equity stripping for homeowners. HERA's activities include (1) educating individual consumers and communities of vulnerable residents who are targeted by predatory lenders, (2) providing legal services to individuals, (3) training attorneys, housing counselors, and other professionals on how to identify and handle predatory lending and related issues, (4) researching the scope and impact of abusive lending and related practices; (5) community organizing to fight predatory lending; and (6) policy work. The majority of HERA's work is in the nine counties of the Greater Bay Area, but we also provide services statewide with an emphasis on California's rural areas. We serve a unique and positive role in California in expanding the supply of legal services for consumers who have been victims of predatory lending. Since our founding in 2005, we have provided legal advice to over 4500 homeowners throughout the State of California, in-person, over the phone and at homeowner workshops. Working in partnership with government and non-profit agencies (primarily HUD-certified housing counseling agencies), we have organized and been participants in large-scale foreclosure education seminars, where we have provided legal information on foreclosure rights, predatory lending and other related issues to hundreds of homeowners in distress. We have reached many thousands more in this past year through use of the media - appearing on Spanish-language radio to discuss foreclosure laws, presenting legal rights information at workshops rebroadcast on local cable in the counties of Contra Costa and Alameda, and getting our clients' stories and hardships publicized. Our use of the media contributes to one of our larger goals of influencing public policy and corporate choices and helping to shape the public debate over the foreclosure crisis. Over the past year, HERA has increased the amount of technical assistance we provide to legal services in California to support their engaging in litigation for vulnerable victims of predatory lending who are facing foreclosure, and we have expanded training to the private bar. In addition, we are expanding the litigation that we engage in on behalf of consumers facing foreclosure.In 2009, we increased our legal advice to homeowners in distress (facing foreclosure and post-foreclosure), and tenants in foreclosed on properties throughout the state of California by phone, and our loan modification work for homeowners facing foreclosure in the Greater Bay Area. We have had increasing success in that part of our work as well. 596685 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false 0 0 false 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false false X 7 7 false false false false false false false true true false false false true true true true true true true true false false Organization 5102718443 1814 Franklin Street suite 1040 Oakland CA 94612 Scott Chang 0.00 0 0 0 Roxanne Romell 0.00 0 0 0 Marina Jimemez 0.00 0 0 0 Maeve Elise Brown 40.00 X X 92828 0 0 Elizabeth Hom 0.00 0 0 0 Elizabeth Clark 0.00 0 0 0 Elizabeth A Renuart 0.00 0 0 0 Arthur Levy 0.00 0 0 0 92828 0 false false false 0 142828 470423 613251 Fees for Service 73277 73277 73277 1200 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 687728 74477 0 0 0 0 92828 92828 0 306323 286365 11975 7983 0 22044 20942 661 441 31432 29860 943 629 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33984 32285 1699 0 0 42753 40615 1283 855 9869 8882 790 197 0 0 0 0 0 0 Workshops and Coferences 20728 20728 Telephone & Internet 8147 7740 407 Printing and Publications 9032 8580 271 181 Litigation 8728 8728 Contract Services 25215 12607 10086 2522 27104 26525 347 232 638187 596685 28462 13040 12317 29409 120618 102921 135522 1550 0 0 0 0 0 -164 5306 18315 12062 13846 6253 0 0 0 0 444 3400 148611 282811 250 6308 6455 20207 6705 26515 X 61906 141296 80000 115000 141906 256296 148611 282811 X 49541 64849 X false false false false false X 105995 156455 226274 345629 613251 1447604 0 0 105995 156455 226274 345629 613251 1447604 0 1447604 1730 1769 1200 4699 0 0 1452303 0.99680 0.99620 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 18315 12062 6253 6253 Accrued Vacations 20207 20207 Part XI, Line 8 Part XI, Line 8: Other Changes in Net Assets or Fund Balances Temp Restricted Grants not prev rec $65000 Prior period adjustments $ -151 Form 990, Part VI, Line 19 Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available No documents available to the public. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees The board considers the following factors in determining compensation:(1)Expertise of staff person or proposed hire, including years of relevant work experience and training; (2) rate of pay and benefits for comparable positions in at least three other comparabe organizations, benchmarking in the geographic region. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts The conflict of interest policy states that each board member shall annually complete a disclosure form identifying any relationships,positions or circumstances in which the board member is involved that he or she believes could contribute to a conflict of interest arising. Also, each new board member is required to review a copy of the policy and acknowledge in writing that he or she has done so. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11 Form 990, Part VI, Line 11: Form 990 Review Process No review was or will be conducted.