Alternative Dispute Resolution
Sep. 8, 2025
Can we talk? Mediation is a calmer, quicker, and more cost-effective solution for housing disputes
Mediation in landlord-tenant disputes is an underused but growing tool that offers attorneys and clients faster, more affordable, and more empathetic resolutions than litigation.
Mae Villanueva
Founder
Mae Villanueva Mediation
Email: mae@maevillanuevamediation.com
Mae Villanueva is the founder of Mae Villanueva Mediation and has worked with hundreds of litigants in civil disputes since 2012. She has successfully mediated cases involving employment, wage and hour disputes, landlord-tenant matters, and other issues, utilizing both facilitative and evaluative methods to guide parties toward resolution. Mae holds a master's degree in dispute resolution and negotiation, has mediated more than 100 court cases, and further refined her expertise at Pepperdine's renowned Straus Institute.
Mediation --
particularly in housing provider-renter matters -- is a growing yet
underutilized field that aligns with many of today's emerging attorneys' values
and goals: efficiency, empathy, social impact, and practical problem-solving.
Across California jurisdictions -- including Alameda and 14 others -- a quiet revolution is underway: landlord-tenant conflicts, from unpaid rent to unsafe cond...
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