Los Angeles: three agencies, three different jobs.

You still have rights in this unit. A landlord notice is not an unlawful detainer. Keep the paper. Photograph every page. If it names Los Angeles County Superior Court, a case number, or a date to appear, that is a case — Stay Housed LA or legal aid the same day. You do not have to solve the whole case tonight.

Danger: 911. Mental-health crisis: 988. Domestic violence: 1-800-799-7233. Rent, shelter, food, utilities: 211. Discrimination in housing: Housing Rights Center and HUD, not the eviction clinic.

Stay Housed LA (stayhousedla.org) is a City-backed network: workshops on rights and the eviction process, and legal services for eligible tenants facing eviction. They publish that they have run thousands of workshops and connected tens of thousands of tenants to legal services. That is their lane — notices, unlawful detainers, court. The homepage we opened lists more than a dozen languages, including Spanish, Armenian, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Japanese, Persian, Vietnamese, Thai, Khmer, Hindi, and Filipino/Tagalog. Confirm the current list there.

They are not LAHD. They do not decide whether your unit is under the Rent Stabilization Ordinance. They are not Housing Rights Center. If the harm is “they will not rent to me because of who I am,” that is a fair-housing door, not an eviction workshop.

LAHD’s own renter-protection page points tenants facing eviction to Stay Housed LA. Believe the map.

The Los Angeles Housing Department (housing.lacity.gov) administers the Rent Stabilization Ordinance, just-cause rules, and housing complaints. Coverage is an address question they will answer. They publish a complaint path and a hotline on their renter-protection page. Confirm hours and what is in force there.

That highlights page still describes COVID-era ordinances by number — 186585, 186606, 186607 — including emergency eviction and rent-increase pauses tied to a local emergency. Emergency-period language goes stale. This classroom will not reprint those rules as if they were today’s RSO. Ask LAHD what applies to this unit now.

Housing Rights Center (housingrightscenter.org/get-help) is a fair-housing organization: counseling, investigation, and complaints. They publish a Housing Rights Hotline and clinics across Los Angeles County — Los Angeles, Ventura, Pasadena, and other cities they list on that page. Confirm locations and hours with them.

On the get-help page we opened on 8 September 2026, HRC listed in-person clinics in Alhambra, Carson, El Monte, Inglewood, Lakewood, and Palmdale. Clinics move. Confirm with them. Their own page refers eviction notices to Stay Housed LA. Discrimination is their door. An unlawful detainer is not.

Their mission names protected characteristics under fair-housing law, including some California adds beyond the federal Fair Housing Act. They are the local door when the harm is discrimination. They are not Stay Housed. They are not the Superior Court.

HUD’s Fair Housing Act overview is the primary federal source: race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, disability. Housing discrimination is illegal in nearly all housing, HUD says, including private housing. File at HUD’s complaint page. A local group such as Housing Rights Center can dual-file or counsel. HUD is not your landlord-tenant code, and not LAHD.

Stay Housed ranks because it is the branded eviction-defense coalition with scale and City backing. LAHD ranks because it is the official City housing department. Housing Rights Center ranks because it is a long-running fair-housing nonprofit with a hotline and clinics. HUD ranks because it wrote the Act.

This page is for the query they do not own: which door, in which order, without copying a stale emergency ordinance. Cite them. Do not impersonate them.