Housing Publications List
Improve Your Credit - Put Bad Credit Behind You (2010). An easy-to-read brochure that explains why having good credit is important, your rights if your credit application is rejected, how to check your credit report, how to dispute mistakes on your credit report and how to begin to rebuild good credit.
Good Credit (2010) (Chinese). 本文說明何謂信用記錄﹑什麼是信用報告﹑如何得到個人信用報告、如何建立良好信用﹐以及在發生困難時向哪一個機構投訴。
A fact sheet that explains what credit history is, what a credit report is, how to get your credit report, how to establish good credit and where to complain if you have a problem.
Buen crédito (2010). Un folleto que explica qué es el informe crediticio y cómo obtenerlo, la importancia de su historial de crédito, qué occure si le niegan su solicitud de crédito, cómo puede establecer buen crédito y dónde quejarse si tiene un problema.
Good Credit (2010). A fact sheet that explains what credit history is, what a credit report is, how to get your credit report, how to establish good credit and where to complain if you have a problem.
No caiga en la trampa de los servicios de cancelación de deudas. La mayoría de las compañías de cancelación de deudas le cobran aunque terminen sin saldar sus cuentas.
Mejore su crédito - Ejercicios para hacer en clase. Este archivo en PDF contiene traducciones en español de las actividades para hacer en clase y los ejercicios para hacer en casa tomados del plan de enseñanza en inglés Rebuilding Good Credit.
Improve Your Credit - Put Bad Credit Behind You (2009) (Chinese). 這本簡單易讀的手冊說明良好信用的重要性、信貸申請如不獲批准時的個人權利、如何查核個人信用報告﹑如果信用報告有錯誤時如何爭議﹐以及如何開始建立良好信用。
An easy-to-read brochure that explains why having good credit is important, your rights if your credit application is rejected, how to check your credit report, how to dispute mistakes on your credit report and how to begin to rebuild good credit.
Mejore su crédito - Deje atrás el mal crédito (2009). Un folleto fácil de leer que explica por qué es importante tener buen crédito, sus derechos si su aplicación de crédito es rechazada, cómo obtener su informe crediticio, cómo corregir errores en su informe crediticio y cómo comenzar a reconstruir su crédito.
Mejore su crédito - Presentación en PowerPoint. El archivo de la presentación en PowerPoint del seminario Mejore su crédito está disponible en la sección "Download File".
Freeze Your Credit File - Powerpoint Slides (Hmong). The Freeze Your Credit File Powerpoint File (in pdf format) is available for download in the "Download File" section.
Rebuilding Good Credit -Seminar Lesson Plan Packet. This packet provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets. (Note: It is only available as a PDF file.)
Workplace Privacy - Powerpoint Slides. These PowerPoint slides can be used with the Lesson Plan to hold a training on workplace privacy.
Workplace Privacy - Lesson Plan and Class Activity. This lesson plan is designed to help you hold a training on employee privacy in the workplace.
Workplace Privacy Guide. This backgrounder guide on workplace privacy is written in question-and-answer format. It explains the limited nature of employee privacy rights in the workplace, and details when and how employers can observe and track employees’ activities—including phone conversations and computer-related tasks on company-owned devices.
Rebuilding Good Credit - PowerPoint Training Slides. The Rebuilding Good Credit Powerpoint training file is available for download in the "Download File" section.
Staying on Track With Credit (Chinese). 對那些瞭解信貸的使用代價跟優點，以及懂得如何明智地使用信貸的消費者來說，信貸可以成為一種有用的財務工具。這本手冊解釋了「無限次」，又稱為循還式信貸，包括信用卡，房屋淨值信貸(HELOC: Home Equity Line of Credit)和支票透支信用額(Overdraft Lines of Credit)，同時還討論使用信貸的好處及壞處。該手冊還包括如何避免使用高收費信貸的技巧。
Credit can be a valuable financial tool for consumers who understand its costs and benefits and how to use it wisely. This brochure defines open-ended, or revolving, credit, including credit cards, home equity lines of credit and overdraft lines of credit, and discusses the pros and cons of using credit. It includes tips on high-cost credit to avoid.
Entienda y administre bien su crédito. El crédito puede ser una herramienta muy útil para aquellos consumidores que entienden los costos, beneficios, y la mejor manera de utilizarlo. Este folleto define los varios tipos de crédito, como el crédito abierto, que incluye las tarjetas de crédito, líneas de crédito como la protección contra sobregiros en su cuenta de cheques y líneas de crédito sobre el valor líquido de la vivienda. También explica las ventajas y desventajas de pagar a crédito y ofrece consejos sobre cómo evitar el crédito de alto costo.
Staying on Track with Credit - PowerPoint Slides. The Staying on Track with Credit Powerpoint training file is available for download in the "Download File" section.
Staying on Track with Credit - Lesson Plan. This packet provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The 23-page packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets. (Note: It is only available as a PDF file.)
Questions and Answers About Obtaining and Managing Credit. By understanding how credit works, what it costs, and how to avoid accumulating too much debt, consumers can use credit to their advantage. The "Credit Training Manual" can help answer many questions about credit.
Staying on Track With Credit. Credit can be a valuable financial tool for consumers who understand its costs and benefits and how to use it wisely. This brochure defines open-ended, or revolving, credit, including credit cards, home equity lines of credit and overdraft lines of credit, and discusses the pros and cons of using credit. It includes tips on high-cost credit to avoid.
Good Credit - Powerpoint Training Slides (2009). The Good Credit Powerpoint training file is available for download in the "Download File" section.
Good Credit - Seminar Lesson Plan Packet (2009). This PDF packet provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets.
Buen Crédito - Presentación en PowerPoint. El archivo de la presentación en PowerPoint del seminario Buen Crédito está disponible en la sección "Download File".
Buen crédito - Ejercicios para hacer en clase. Este archivo en PDF contiene traducciones en español de las actividades para hacer en clase y los ejercicios para hacer en casa tomados del plan de enseñanza en inglés Good Credit.
Workplace Privacy. To protect your personal privacy and your job, you should know when and how employers can monitor and gather information about you. This publication explains some of the situations in which monitoring might occur in the workplace and explains your privacy rights as an employee.
Buen crédito - Guía para el instructor. Una guía para ayudar al personal de agencias comunitarias a educar a sus clientes sobre el crédito. Entre los temas se incluyen informes de crédito, historiales de crédito, cómo establecer buen crédito, puntajes de crédito, fraude de crédito y más.
Freeze Your Credit File (Chinese). “安全凍結”信用檔案是一種預防及避免身份被盜用的工具﹐它可以阻止詐騙者利用你的個人資料來建立信貸記錄。這本手冊內容詳述如何“凍結”個人信用檔案，而且除非你暫時或永久取消凍結﹐它就可以防止別人以你的名義申請信貸。
A credit file "security freeze" is a preventive tool to help you avoid identity theft and to block impostors from using your personal information to establish credit. This publication explains how to "freeze" your credit file, which prevents new credit from being established in your name until you temporarily or permanently lift the freeze.
Freeze Your Credit File. A credit file "security freeze" is a preventive tool to help you avoid identity theft and to block impostors from using your personal information to establish credit. This publication explains how to "freeze" your credit file, which prevents new credit from being established in your name until you temporarily or permanently lift the freeze.
Congele su expediente crediticio. El “congelamiento de seguridad” es una herramienta para ayudarle a prevenir el robo de identidad y evitar que impostores utilicen su información personal para establecer crédito. Esta publicación explica cómo “congelar” su crédito, lo cual previene que se establezca crédito nuevo a nombre suyo hasta que usted remueva el congelamiento por un tiempo o permanentemente.
Freeze Your Credit File - Powerpoint Slides. The Freeze Your Credit File Powerpoint File is available for download in the "Download File" section.
Credit Report Security Freeze - Training Packet. To provide participants with the knowledge to determine whether a security freeze is right for them and, if it is, how to place, lift and remove a security freeze. This PDF packet provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The 11-page packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets.
Security Freeze Training Manual. This publication is part of a series on how you can protect yourself from identity (ID) theft by placing a security freeze on your credit files. A freeze also is a good idea for victims of ID theft.
State Credit Freeze Chart. Consumer Action has prepared a chart listing guidelines for placing a "security freeze" on your credit file.
Be Careful Where You Get Credit - Powerpoint Slides. This presentation is a companion to the brochure "Watch Where You Get Credit," which compares various sources of credit—from credit unions to pawn shops.
Watch Where You Get Credit. This publication explains the various sources of credit—from credit unions to pawn shops—and includes warnings about credit that consumers might want to avoid.
Qué significa su puntaje crediticio. Su puntaje crediticio es una representación de su historial de crédito en cierto momento que es utilizada por prestamistas, aseguradores y otros para evaluar su solvencia crediticia y la probabilidad de que usted pague sus cuentas y préstamos pendientes. Esta publicación explica cómo obtener su puntaje crediticio, entenderlo y poder mantenerlo o mejorarlo.
Understanding Your Credit Score (Chinese). 個人信用評分就是個人信用歷史的一個“寫照”。貸款公司﹑保險公司及其它相關行業用它來評估是否值得貸款給你﹐以及你是否會支付帳單和償還貸款。這本手冊內容有﹕何謂信用評分﹑如何解讀﹐以及如何保持或改善它。
Your credit score is a "snapshot" of your credit history that is used by lenders, insurers and others to assess your creditworthiness and the likelihood that you will pay your bills and repay outstanding loans. This publication explains how to learn your score, how to interpret it and how to maintain or improve it.
Understanding Your Credit Score. Your credit score is a "snapshot" of your credit history that is used by lenders, insurers and others to assess your creditworthiness and the likelihood that you will pay your bills and repay outstanding loans. This publication explains how to learn your score, how to interpret it and how to maintain or improve it.
Good Credit - Leader’s Guide (2007). A guide to help community-based organization staff educate their clients about credit. Topics include credit reports, credit history, establishing good credit, credit scoring, credit fraud and more.
Rebuilding Your Credit - Leader’s Guide (2007). A guide to help community-based organization staff educate their clients about ways to start rebuilding good credit. Topics include damaged credit, credit reports, mistakes on your credit report, credit repair offers, debt consolidation, co-signing loans, secured credit cards, credit counseling, bankruptcy and how to keep your good credit.
Questions & Answers About Subprime Lending. This eight-page training guide, written in a question-and-answer format, discusses subprime lending and its pitfalls from a consumer advocacy perspective. The guide covers risk-based pricing of loans, subprime loans, credit scoring, predatory lending, illegal practices, and how consumers can protect themselves and fight back if they become victims.
Poor Credit means Higher Interest Rates - How to avoid bad loans. This brochure addresses "subprime" loans offered to people with credit problems. While consumers with poor credit can find fairly priced mortgages, car loans and credit cards at higher-than-average rates, this population is easily victimized by very bad deals called predatory lending. This brochure covers illegal lending practices, warning signs of bad loans, how to avoid becoming a victim, filing a compaint and resources for advice and assistance.
El mal crédito se traduce en tasas de interés más altas. Este folleto describe los préstamos "no preferenciales" ofrecidos a las personas con problemas de crédito. Mientras que los consumidores con mal crédito pueden encontrar préstamos hipotecarios, de automóviles, o tarjetas de crédito con tasas de interés bastante más altas que lo normal, este grupo se convierte fácilmente en víctima de tratos malos llamados préstamos abusivos. El folleto cubre las prácticas ilegales de los prestamistas, señales de alerta de un préstamo malo, cómo evitar convertirse en víctima, cómo presentar una queja y recursos para obterner consejo y asistencia.
Poor Credit means Higher Interest Rates - How to avoid bad loans (Chinese). 此手冊內容是關於信用不佳者所能申請得到的“次級”貸款。當消費者信用太差時，他們的房屋、汽車或信用卡等貸款利率都會比一般的公平價目高，這些人很容易成為所謂掠奪性不良借貸交易的受害者。本文涵蓋合法貸款案例、不良借貸預警訊號、如何避免成為受害者、書面投訴方法及相關諮詢協助資源等。
This brochure addresses "subprime" loans offered to people with credit problems. While consumers with poor credit can find fairly priced mortgages, car loans and credit cards at higher-than-average rates, this population is easily victimized by very bad deals called predatory lending. This brochure covers illegal lending practices, warning signs of bad loans, how to avoid becoming a victim, filing a compaint and resources for advice and assistance.
Questions & Answers About Privacy & Your Credit Report. Privacy abuses are on the increase, including credit fraud and identity theft, a fast-growing crime in which an impostor applies for credit under a victim's name. "Questions and Answers about Privacy and Credit Reports" offers in-depth information on privacy and credit reports, bank accounts and marketing as well as new laws designed to help people better control how their personal information is used.
Privacy and Your Credit Report. Our personal financial information is more easily available and far less secure in the computer age than it was in the days of old-fashioned filing cabinets. "Privacy and Your Credit Report" explains why the information contained in your credit report can, in the wrong hands, be used to abuse your privacy. It also explains how California residents have strong privacy rights with new laws and an office of privacy protection.
Privacidad y su Informe de Crédito. En la era de la computación, nuestra información personal financiera es mucho menos segura y está disponible más fácilmente que en los días de los antiguos gabinetes de archivos. "Privacidad y su Informe de Crédito" explica por qué la información que su historial de crédito contiene puede ser usada para abusar de su privacidad al caer en malas manos. Además, explica cómo los derechos de privacidad de los residentes de California se han fortalecido gracias a la creación de nuevas leyes y una oficina de protección de la privacidad.
Credit Repair Scams. An illustrated fact sheet that describes what a credit report is and how to find out what is in your credit report. Explains how to correct inaccurate information in your report and advises caution with credit repair companies and guaranteed credit claims.
Cómo evitar el fraude con tarjetas de crédito. Un folleto que describe cómo los delincuentes roban y usan los números de las tarjetas de crédito, y explica cómo evitar el fraude y qué debe hacer si su tarjeta ha sido robada.
Las estafas por reparación de crédito. Algunas compañías engañan al consumidor diciendo que pueden "limpiarle" los informes de crédito negativos. Este folleto explica los servicios limitados que las compañías de reparación de crédito pueden ofrecer legalmente y revela las declaraciones engañosas y las prácticas ilegales de ciertas compañías.
Don’t Be Fooled by Misleading ‘Credit Repair’ Claims!. An illustrated fact sheet that describes what a credit report is and how to find out what is in your credit report. Explains how to correct inaccurate information in your report and advises caution with credit repair companies and guaranteed credit claims.
No Se Deje Engañar por Declaraciones Falsas de “Reparación de Crédito”. Un folleto que explica qué es un informe de crédito, cómo averiguar el contenido de su informe de crédito, qué puede hacer si su informe de crédito contiene información incorrecta, y cómo cuidarse de las compañías que dicen poder reparar su crédito.
Giving Yourself Some Credit (Russian). An illustrated fact sheet describing what credit is, how to obtain it, and how to use it. Also describes credit ratings, credit bureaus, and the importance of consumers periodically reviewing a copy of their credit report for accuracy. Explains the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
Giving Yourself Some Credit (Chinese). 本文內容詳述何謂信貸﹑如何申請及使用等。同時說明信貸評級﹑信用報告機構﹐以及消費者定期查核個人信用報告是否正確無誤的重要性。也有解說何謂公平信貸法 (Equal Credit Opportunity Act).
An illustrated fact sheet describing what credit is, how to obtain it, and how to use it. Also describes credit ratings, credit bureaus, and the importance of consumers periodically reviewing a copy of their credit report for accuracy. Explains the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
Cómo Establecer Crédito. Hoja informativa ilustrada que describe el crédito, cómo obtenerlo y cómo utilizarlo. También describe la solvencia, las agencias de clasificación de solvencia y lo importante que es revisar su informe crediticio periódicamente para verificar su exactitud. Explica la Ley de Igualdad en Oportunidades de Crédito.
California Immigrants and Credit (Russian). A fact sheet designed to explain credit to California immigrants: how to qualify for it, how to use it properly, and how to avoid problems. Discusses creditors, credit history, credit bureaus, scams, and abuses. Includes a short glossary of credit terms and a listing of community resources for further information.
California Immigrants and Credit (Chinese). 本文專門向加州移民解說有關信貸問題: 申請資格﹑如何正確使用﹑如何避免發生問題等。而且針對貸款公司﹑信用記錄﹑信用報告機構﹑信用詐騙及信貸濫用等均有討論。內容並包括簡短的信貸專有名詞以及社區資源名單以便提供更多資訊。
A fact sheet designed to explain credit to California immigrants: how to qualify for it, how to use it properly, and how to avoid problems. Discusses creditors, credit history, credit bureaus, scams, and abuses. Includes a short glossary of credit terms and a listing of community resources for further information.
California Immigrants and Credit. A fact sheet designed to explain credit to California immigrants: how to qualify for it, how to use it properly, and how to avoid problems. Discusses creditors, credit history, credit bureaus, scams, and abuses. Includes a short glossary of credit terms and a listing of community resources for further information.
Los Inmigrantes de California y el Crédito. Hoja informativa diseñada para explicar temas de crédito a inmigrantes en California: cómo calificar, cómo utilizarlo adecuadamente y cómo evitar problemas. Discute temas sobre acreedores, historial de crédito, agencias de clasificación de solvencia, fraudes y abusos. Incluye un glosario pequeño sobre terminología de crédito y una lista de recursos comunitarios para obtener más información.
Giving Yourself Some Credit. An illustrated fact sheet describing what credit is, how to obtain it, and how to use it. Also describes credit ratings, credit bureaus, and the importance of consumers periodically reviewing a copy of their credit report for accuracy. Explains the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
Where Can I Get Credit?. A fact sheet that explains various sources where consumers can obtain credit, such as banks, credit unions, finance companies and pawnbrokers.
¿Dónde puedo obtener crédito?. Un folleto que explica las fuentes de crédito: bancos, cooperativas de crédito, tarjetas de crédito, cuentas de cliente, prestamistas ilícitos, tiendas de dinero y más.
