The Sparks Justice Court has information on its website concerning the availability of mediation, government sponsored rental assistance, and electronic filing for the Tenant Affidavit, among other matters. A tenant may access this information at: https://www.washoecounty.us/sjc
Rental assistance is available at https://www.renoha.org/chap. If you have a pending application for rental assistance, or if your landlord has refused to participate in the rental assistance process or has refused to accept rental assistance on your behalf, you have the right to assert those facts as a defense to this eviction at any point in the proceedings. Should you assert this defense to the court, the court will determine if your case is designated as one that may be paused until a determination on your rental assistance application is made or until a hearing is held for you to prove the validity of your claim of the landlord's refusal