The IE Tenants’ Union is working to build the tenants' rights movement in the Inland Empire. We hope that this video will help people fight eviction. If you would like help filing an answer to an eviction and you are in Riverside or San Bernardino counties, one of our volunteers can help.
In this Video, Cameron Dekens shows IE Tenant Union volunteers how to complete an Answer to unlawful detainers (UDs). Cameron Dekens is a public interest attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.
Reach out with this form for a Tenant Union member to help you write an answer: Help With an Answer to an Eviction
Cameron Dekens’ notes Answering unlawful detainers on Google docs:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11VH42FovwGMychyd4p5ibG-_gbQ0AMFKFU9O63miEbY/edit?usp=sharing
Link to the video tutorial mentioned by Cameron in the training video. This one is prepared by Matthew Kane, Family Law Facilitator/Self-Help Center Attorney, Siskiyou County Superior Court. It covers the basics for filing an answer to an Unlawful Detainer but not many pointers on what to write for the Answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ovss0Tj2qU&ab_channel=MatthewKane
Link to a fillable PDF Court Form UD-105, The Answer to an Unlawful Detainer:
https://courts.ca.gov/sites/default/files/courts/default/2024-11/ud105.pdf
Link to a fillable PDF Court Form POS-030, Proof Of Service By First Class Mail:
https://courts.ca.gov/sites/default/files/courts/default/2024-11/pos030.pdf
Link to a fillable PDF Court Form FW-101, Request To Waive Court Fees:
https://courts.ca.gov/sites/default/files/courts/default/2024-11/fw001.pdf
The Tenant Power Toolkit, a collaborative effort between the The Debt Collective, The LA Tenants Union, The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy, ACCE Action, legal service providers like Movement Legal Services, and anti-eviction lawyers including Gary Blasi, one of California’s best known housing justice lawyers. They designed this toolkit to keep people in their homes, fight evictions, fight rent debt, and build the collective power of tenants. https://tenantpowertoolkit.org/
Legal Services of Northern California created this Instruction Packet:
https://lsnc.net/sites/default/files/inline-images/UD%20Answer%20Instruction%20Packet%20with%20Fillable%20Forms%204.24.pdf
